In Richard Van Camp's fictionalized north anything can happen and yet each story is rooted in a vivid contemporary reality. The stories offer a potent mix tape of tropes from science fiction, horror, Western and Aboriginal traditions....
Indigenous materials
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Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary: - Author:Hess, MarieSummary:
Written by a Mohawk Institute Residential School survivor, this is a fierce and candid story that reveals the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic time in our history. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools...
- Author:Huhndorf, Shari M.Summary:
Since the 1800s, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances...
- Author:Noel, MichelSummary:
Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction. The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a...
- Author:Native NorthwestSummary:
Animals are highly respected in our culture and featured in our traditions. They are part of our stories, dances, songs and in our dreams. Francis Horne St. Coast Salish.
- Author:Schwartz, Joanne, Mikkigak, QaunakSummary:
Baby ptarmigan will not go to sleep, so his grandmother tells him a bedtime story.
- Author:Auger, DanielSummary:
Daniel Auger's grandmother was the greatest storyteller he ever knew. In her soft voice, she spoke of heroes and giants, of evil deeds and mysterious spirits. Born on a Canadian reserve and educated at an Indian residential school...
- Author:Samatte, SandraSummary:
Follow along as a young Indigenous girl reflects on all the amazing things she is grateful for.
- Author:Hollihan, TonySummary:
Biographies of the great chiefs Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Quanah Parker, Red Cloud, Sequoyah, and Louis Riel. Vol. II: Tecumseh, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Crowfoot, Plenty Coups, and Wovoka of the Northern Paiute.
- Author:Hollihan, TonySummary:
Biographies of the great chiefs Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Quanah Parker, Red Cloud, Sequoyah, and Louis Riel. Vol. II: Tecumseh, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Crowfoot, Plenty Coups, and Wovoka of the Northern Paiute.
- Author:Hollihan, TonySummary:
A tribute to the courageous chiefs and warriors who fought to protect their people and preserve the Native way of life in the face of European expansion across North America: Sequoyah, a Cherokee who invented a system of writing for his...
- Author:Zenko, Darren, Hollihan, TonySummary:
More chronicles of renowned Indigenous leaders who grappled with the catastrophic arrival of foreigners on their soil and of the measures they took to protect their people.
- Author:Fournel, KellySummary:
Profiles of ten outstanding women leaders, including Suzanne Rochon-Burnett, a Métis broadcaster, journalist and First Nations advocate, winner of the Governor General’s Award for her work on Native Women’s rights; Susan Aglukark, Inuit...
- Author:Sigafus, Kim, Lyle, ErnstSummary:
Ten short and engaging biographies of First Nations/Native writers complete with photographs, sidebars, and a complete catalog of their work. These writers draw on their cultural history to create novels, poetry, and plays, and are an...
- Author:Busch, Frank ChristopherSummary:
In a world without time and steeped in ceremony and magic, walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. True stewards of the land, the Grey Eyes use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. With only one...
- Author:Collison, PansySummary:
Take a journey into the heart of Haida culture as it is lived and experienced by an extraordinary woman of the Tsath Lanas Eagle Clan. Pansy Collison, a Haida woman born and raised in Old Massett on Haida Gwaii, tells stories of her...
- Author:Arnott, JoanneSummary:
In Halfling spring, a series of notes unfolds the dance of desire versus trust through a long season of actual and metaphorical springtime. Joanne Arnott is a Metis/mixed blood mother of six, and in this collection she continues her...
- Author:Shaw, Carol AnneSummary:
In the second volume of the Hannah trilogy, summer has arrived, and fourteen-year-old Hannah Anderson is excited about spending it with Max (who has been giving her stomach butterflies lately). But things are happening in Cowichan Bay...
- Author:Shaw, Carol AnneSummary:
When twelve-year-old Hannah uncovers an ancient Salish spindle whorl hidden in a cave near her home in Cowichan Bay, she is transported back to a village called Tl'ulpalus, in a time before Europeans had settled in the area. Through the...
- Author:Dance, JenniferSummary:
2018 Red Maple Award — Shortlisted • 2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award — Winner, Young Adult Category • CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016) When a First Nations teen rescues a fish-hawk from a tailings pond in...
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