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A Short History Of Indians In Canada
''A Short History of Indians in Canada'' is a collection of short stories by Thomas King, published by HarperCollins in 2005. Although the majority of the stories deal with issues surrounding First Nations people, the topics and styles are quite diverse. The book won the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award The McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually since 2005 to a First Nations, Inuit or Métis writer for a work published in English in any literary genre. The author receives a cash award o ... in 2006. Stories #A Short History of Indians in Canada #Tidings of Comfort and Joy #The Dog I Wish I had, I Would Call It Helen #The Baby in the Airmail Box #Coyote and the Enemy Aliens #Haida Gwaii #Little Bombs #The Colour of Walls #Bad Men Who Love Jesus #The Closer You Get to Canada, the More Things Will Eat Your Horses #Noah's Ark #Where the Borg Are #States to Avoid #Fire and Rain #Rendezvous #Domestic Furie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Short History Of Indians In Canada
''A Short History of Indians in Canada'' is a collection of short stories by Thomas King, published by HarperCollins in 2005. Although the majority of the stories deal with issues surrounding First Nations people, the topics and styles are quite diverse. The book won the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award The McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually since 2005 to a First Nations, Inuit or Métis writer for a work published in English in any literary genre. The author receives a cash award o ... in 2006. Stories #A Short History of Indians in Canada #Tidings of Comfort and Joy #The Dog I Wish I had, I Would Call It Helen #The Baby in the Airmail Box #Coyote and the Enemy Aliens #Haida Gwaii #Little Bombs #The Colour of Walls #Bad Men Who Love Jesus #The Closer You Get to Canada, the More Things Will Eat Your Horses #Noah's Ark #Where the Borg Are #States to Avoid #Fire and Rain #Rendezvous #Domestic Furie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story has been recurrently problematic. A classic definition of a short story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas King (novelist)
Thomas King (born April 24, 1943) is a Canadian writer and broadcast presenter who most often writes about First Nations.Thomas King in '' The Canadian Encyclopedia''. Early life and education Thomas King, who was born in Roseville, California, on April 24, 1943, claims German and Greek descent from his mother and unconfirmed and not tribally recognized from his father. King says his father left the family when the boys were very young, and that they were raised almost entirely by their mother.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers (founded in 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in 1989. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints. History Collins Harper Mergers and acquisitions Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Nations In Canada
First Nations (french: Premières Nations) is a term used to identify those Indigenous Canadian peoples who are neither Inuit nor Métis. Traditionally, First Nations in Canada were peoples who lived south of the tree line, and mainly south of the Arctic Circle. There are 634 recognized First Nations governments or bands across Canada. Roughly half are located in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. Under Charter jurisprudence, First Nations are a "designated group," along with women, visible minorities, and people with physical or mental disabilities. First Nations are not defined as a visible minority by the criteria of Statistics Canada. North American indigenous peoples have cultures spanning thousands of years. Some of their oral traditions accurately describe historical events, such as the Cascadia earthquake of 1700 and the 18th-century Tseax Cone eruption. Written records began with the arrival of European explorers and colonists during the Age of Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book Of The Year Award , ''That Tongued Belonging''
The McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually since 2005 to a First Nations, Inuit or Métis writer for a work published in English in any literary genre. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by the Canadian bookstore chain McNally Robinson. Winners *2005 - Joseph Boyden, ''Three Day Road'' *2006 - Thomas King, ''A Short History of Indians in Canada'' *2007 - Marilyn Dumont Marilyn Dumont (born 1955) is a Canadian poet and educator of Cree/ Métis descent. Born in northeastern Alberta, she is a descendant of Gabriel Dumont. External links McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story Collections By Thomas King (novelist)
Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Arts, entertainment, and media * Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject) * Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting * ''The Short-Timers'', a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Hasford, about military short-timers in Vietnam Brands and enterprises * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Finance * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II Foodstuffs * Short pastry, one which is rich in b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Short Story Collections
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
