Unlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like pre-contact. The title, Turtle...
Indigenous peoples--North America
- Auteur:Yellowhorn, EldonSommaire:
- Auteur:Mitchell, MabelSommaire:
- Auteur:Rogers, Janet MarieSommaire:
The book creatively reveals the beautiful and bitter essences of the world from a distinctive Indigenous female voice. Inspired by her recent global travels, experiences, relationships and Haudenosaunee perspective, the poet...
- Auteur:Ernst, KathleenSommaire:
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing,...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
All cultures have tales of the trickster – a crafty creature or being who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself....
- Auteur:Stewart, H. E.Sommaire:
The First Nations could hear the singing of the trees. The Sitka spruce, a giant among trees, grows in a rainforest in the Pacific Northwest. The Europeans arrive and clear the old forests. The ancient Sitka shatters. Hope dawns when an...
- Auteur:Hildebrandt, Walter, Cardinal, HaroldSommaire:
"It is my hope, and the hope of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, that this publication can help provide the historical context needed to intelligently and respectfully forge new relations between First Nations people and non-...
- Auteur:Mikaelsen, Ben.Sommaire:
Will the attack of the Spirit Bear destroy Cole's life or save his soul? Cole Matthews has been fighting, stealing, and raising hell for years. So his punishment for beating Peter Driscal senseless is harsh. Given a choice between...
- Auteur:Harold, HughinaSommaire:
Hughina Harold paints a powerful picture of a world that no longer exists in this compelling account of her experiences as a young teacher and nurse on the remote Broughton Archipelago on British Columbia’s coast in the 1930s. Fresh...
- Auteur:Boreham, BrendaSommaire:
- Auteur:EDDY, SteveSommaire:
Introduction to the beliefs, philosophy and mythology of the native Americans and how this can be applied to everyday life on the 21st century.
- Auteur:Gray Smith, MoniqueSommaire:
Winner of the 2019-20 First Nation Communities READ Indigenous Literature Award. An unexpected journey can be powerful medicine. When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket list road trip to...
- Auteur:Brouwer, SigmundSommaire:
Hockey stars Mike “Crazy” Keats and his Cree Indian friend, Dakota, are caught in a web of violence which makes winning this year’s hockey league championship the least of their concerns. Mike’s new to the Seattle Thunderbirds, and...
- Auteur:Alexie, ShermanSommaire:
From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son. Thunder Boy Jr. wants...
- Auteur:Boyden, JosephSommaire:
Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side. Slowly their stories reveal two people previously separated by great distances, beaten and broken, and...
- Auteur:Van Camp, RichardSommaire:
Three young men — Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert — have vandalized their community and are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process. There, the young men learn to take responsibility for...
- Auteur:Meili, DianneSommaire:
The reader will experience first-hand the personality, characteristics, and sometimes remote environment of these healers, visionaries, storytellers, and spiritualists through Dianne Meili’s faithful re-telling of the interviews she...
- Auteur:Belcourt, Billy-RaySommaire:
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside.' Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like...
- Auteur:Krueger, William KentSommaire:
The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of...
- Auteur:Simpson, Leanne BetasamosakeSommaire:
2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalist. This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary...