New Releases by Jennie Donald

Challenging Colonial Narratives demonstrates that the traditional colonial dichotomy may reflect an artifice of the colonial discourse rather than the lived reality of the past. Matthew A. Beaudoin makes a striking case that comparative research can unsettle many deeply held assumptions and offer a rapprochement of the conventional scholarly separation of colonial and historical archaeology. To create a conceptual bridge between disparate dialogues, Beaudoin examines multigenerational nineteenth-century Mohawk and settler sites in southern Ontario, Canada. He demonstrates that few obvious differences exist and calls for more nuanced interpretive frameworks. Using conventional categories, methodologies, and interpretative processes from Indigenous and settler archaeologies, Beaudoin encourages archaeologists and scholars to focus on the different or similar aspects among sites to better understand the nineteenth-century life of contemporaneous Indigenous and settler peoples. Beaudoin posits that the archaeological record represents people’s navigation through the social and political constraints of their time. Their actions, he maintains, were undertaken within the understood present, the remembered past, and perceived future possibilities. Deconstructing existing paradigms in colonial and postcolonial theories, Matthew A. Beaudoin establishes a new, dynamic discourse on identity formation and politics within the power relations created by colonization that will be useful to archaeologists in the academy as well as in cultural resource management.

This is a true to life animal adventure that your children will love. Are you tired of reading stories to your children about animals that wear clothes and act like humans? Would you like to read an exciting animal story that will teach you and your children real facts about wildlife? Then this is a book you will really enjoy.

Learn about life in the Australian desert.
Learn about unique and mysterious Australian animals with strange names like ningauis, bilbies and mulgaras.

Enjoy the exciting adventures of an animal perfectly adapted to life in one of the most difficult environments in the world.

This is a story about an Australian animal called a Bilby or a Rabbit-Eared Bandicoot. In Australia many of us celebrate Easter with an Easter Bilby instead of an Easter Bunny in order to raise awareness of our unique wildlife. Rabbits in Australia are an introduced pest species that do enormous harm to the environment. We want to promote our unique wildlife instead.

The author is a biologist who has studied, rescued and rehabilitated numerous species of Australian wildlife. She has written a book that educates people about wildlife in the context of a believable and exciting adventure. She can take you and your children into a whole new world beyond your normal animal fairy tale.

There is more to Australia than just kangaroos and koalas. Read this book and learn about many wonderful and unique animals while enjoying the adventures of a little rabbit-eared bandicoot who became an Easter Bilby.

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