Aisling, a young Cree woman, sets out into the wilderness with her Kokum (grandmother), Aunty and two young men she barely knows. They have to find and rescue her runaway younger brother, Eric. Along the way she learns that the legends...
Indigenous materials
- Author:Paquette, AaronSummary:
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Lorsque qu'une jeune Métisse est victime d'une violente agression, les contrecoups se font sentir dans toute la communauté du quartier North End de Winnipeg. Policiers chargés de l'enquête, famille, amis et connaissances voient...
- Author:Patridge, LyndaSummary:
Lillian is a girl of mixed Indigenous and white ancestry who has been shuffled from foster home to foster home as long as she can remember. At school, she doesn't feel like she fits in with the white kids and doesn't fit in...
- Author:Hanson, Aubrey JeanSummary:
"It's a book of conversations -- interviews with nine Indigenous writers who work in Canada. All have been influenced by colonization and are surrounded by discourses of Indigenization, reconciliation, appropriation, and...
- Author:Lyons, S. P. JosephSummary:
Algonquin author S.P. Joseph Lyons, from Kitigan Zibi First Nation, was placed in foster care as a young child and is a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Foster Care can be scary and lonely. Through S.P. Joseph Lyons' experiences, the...
- Author:Ballantyne, SonyaSummary:
The inspiring true story of how Indigenous activist Michael Redhead Champagne found his voice to create change in his community. Michael might be young, but he's got a big heart and a strong sense of right and wrong. He knows it's right...
- Author:Akulukjuk, RoselynnSummary:
Moar has always loved fall - playing outside with his friends, feeling the weather get colder - but there is one thing about autumn that really worries Moar. The moon. The days become shorter and the moon, with its creepy face and eerie...
- Author:Slipperjack, RubySummary:
A young Ojibway girl, struggling over the fact that her father has died, spends summers in the bush with her grandmother and finds her own identity and voice.
Eleven-year-old Ray feels like a misfit at school and in her family....
- Author:Mills Nash, Eve, Harvey, Kenneth J.Summary:
I was only six when I suspected my skin might be the wrong colour… Born female on the wrong side of the tracks, Eve Mills Nash, with the help of co-author Kenneth J. Harvey, tells a hard-hitting tale of a lifelong fascination with men...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
Celebrating the joy babies bring into the world.
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns, has partnered with talented illustrator Julie Flett to create a tender board book for...
- Author:Kermoal, Nathalie, 1964-, Altamirano-Jiménez, IsabelSummary:
An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend...
- Author:Sherman, AlexieSummary:
The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie's debut collection--an instant classic--paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where "Survival = Anger x Imagination," where...
- Author:Ellis, Deborah, Roy, LorieneSummary:
After her critically acclaimed books of interviews with Afghan, Iraqi, Israeli and Palestinian children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention closer to home. For two years she traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing...
- Author:Stonechild, BlairSummary:
As a follow-up to his award-winning The Knowledge Seeker: Embracing Indigenous Spirituality, Blair Stonechild continues his exploration of the Indigenous spiritual teachings passed down to him by Elders, and then moves his study further...
- Author:Brown, ChesterSummary:
Brown's celebrated biography of the Canadian rebel Louis Riel tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth-century Metis leader whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nations...
- Author:Reid, JenniferSummary:
Since he was tried and hanged for treason in November of 1885, Louis Riel has been the subject of more histories, biographies, novels, and poetry than any other figure in Canadian history. Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of...
- Author:Delaronde, Deborah L.Summary:
When a young boy is assigned a project about the fur trade by his teacher, he doesn't know who to turn to because his mom works all day. With help from his grandfather and the internet, they travel back in time and discover how the fur...
- Author:Pelletier, NoëlieSummary:
Guide pédagogique disponible. Prix Manuelas-Dias, Finaliste 2005 Prix Margaret-McWilliams, Lauréat 2005 Louis, fils des Prairies raconte l'histoire de l'enfance de Louis Riel à la Rivière- rouge, jusqu'à l'...
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A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer)...