Smoke Signals from the Heart

An anthology of stories published in the first years of Canada's national Native newspaper First Nations Drum is now available for order.

Featuring the newspaper's finest articles between 1990 and 2004, the stories provide the background to the events that shaped the landscape of Native communities.

Written from a Native perspective, articles examine the most challenging circumstances First Nations have faced including the Oka crisis, the residential school system, the Nisga'a's hundred-year fight to settle their land claim; and the continual struggle for ecological survival of Native communities.

Cover Smoke Signals From The Heart also celebrates the achievements of Canada's Native role models - the artists, the musicians, the women, the elders, the business leaders and many others - in personal profiles and interviews.