I keep hearing about how amazing and progressive the natives were, without any stain on their history. We all know this is absolutely biased - however I don't know where I could find some more reasonable and balanced history of those people. In particular, the Anishinaabe (Ontario/Sask).
Preferably in some audio format, so I could hear while doing chores and stuff.
Thanks!
Those are phenomenal reads. The slimmed-down version is his latest, The Canadian Manifesto. Also Richard Gwyn's biography of John A (The Man Who Made Us) is top notch.
He is a flowery writer, but I found reading him years ago very helpful in terms of preparing myself to then read the Federalist Papers, Hayek, Tocqueville, etc. Once you figure out his pacing, learn what traduced and paucity mean, you're off to the races and equipped with a slightly enlarged lexicon.