Chahkapas: A Naskapi Legend shares the story of Chahkapas, a heroic figure in First Nations storytelling, who performs feats of strength and skill in spite of his diminutive size. The book shares this traditional legend as originally...
Indigenous materials
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Author:Peastitute, JohnSummary: - Author:Stonechild, BlairSummary:
Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future. Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a desire to endlessly exploit...
- Author:Kechnie, Margaret, Reitsma-Street, MargeSummary:
This book provides a glimpse of Aboriginal women in Northern Ontario and it reflects primarily the impact of the European churches and systems on Aboriginal peoples’ way of life. The words of the Aboriginal women are gentle, but these...
- Author:Gottfriedson, GarrySummary:
Chaos Inside Thunderstorms draws the audience into the centre of the tumultuous political, socio/economical and historical reality of the First Nations experience in Canada today. It is poetic expression that examines leadership,...
- Author:Johnson, HaroldSummary:
Charlie Muskrat part chasser l'orignal. Bien décidé à ne pas revenir bredouille, il se retrouve à Prince Albert au volant de son fidèle pick-up, Tonnerre, avec une carabine Winchester sous le siège du passager, un réservoir d'...
- Author:Waiser, BillSummary:
"Canadians and politicians have a common responsibility: to learn from the mistakes inherited from a colonialist legacy; and to not repeat the wrongs, corruption, and injustices our people suffered in the hands of government officials,...
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
- Author:Paul, Daniel N.Summary:
Here is a contemporary Mi'kmaq legend of the life of a great man, who becomes chief, the embodiment of Mi'kmaq values of humility, courage, honour, service and sacrifice of personal gain for the sake of others. He lived a long and...
- Author:Buerge, David M.Summary:
This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times-the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to...
- Author:Mountain, AntoineSummary:
Antoine Mountain follows up his previous memoir From Bear Rock Mountain with the book Child of Morning Star: Embers of an Ancient Dawn. Child of Morning Star is a poetic collection of stories that draws on Antoine Mountain's travels and...
- Author:McDonald, JohnSummary:
“Childhood Thoughts and Water" is a collection of Beat Poetry, Spoken Word, Performance Art and Lyrical Verse. This is a work which journeys into the memories and events of an Urban Indigenous warrior’s struggles to reconnect with...
- Author:Angus, CharlieSummary:
Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country's history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman George...
- Author:Wheeler, Jordan, Jackson, DennisSummary:
Three city kids increase their survival skills and their understanding of the North when they go to their Mushum's cabin for Christmas
At Christmas time in Northern Saskatchewan, three Cree kids - Talon, Raven and T-Bear - visit...
- Author:Dinsdale, ChristopherSummary:
Warring Norsemen, treasure hidden on Oak Island, and mystical adventures on the Irish Isles. Journey through time with the historical adventures in this special four-book collection. Includes: Broken Circle Jesse, a twelve-year-old...
- Author:Gehl, LynnSummary:
Denied her Indigenous status, Lynn Gehl has been fighting her entire life to reclaim mino-pimadiziwin-the good life. Exploring Anishinaabeg philosophy and Anishinaabeg conceptions of truth, Gehl shows how she came to locate her spirit...
- Author:Daschuk, James W.Summary:
This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a forward by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, and explanations of the book's influence by leading Canadian historians. Called "one of the most important books of the twenty-first...
- Author:McCullough, KimSummary:
In this powerful Canadian coming-of-age novel, Claire and her Metis friend Jeff both struggle to overcome loss and dislocation, to restart their emotional growth and reconnect with the central people in their lives -- including each...
- Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue....
- Author:Bell, Eric, Reder, Deanna, Nest, Michael WallaceSummary:
A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of the North's most enduring missing persons cases. Missing persons. Double murder? Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada...
- Author:King, ThomasSummary:
Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he's living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn't great, and he could...
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