This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school system: the fragmentation of families and histories, with blows that resonate through the generations. Inspired by family and archival...
Indigenous materials
- Author:Bird-Wilson, LisaSummary:
- Author:Mniyo, Samuel I., Goodvoice, RobertSummary:
This book presents two of the most important traditions of the Dakota people, the Red Road and the Holy Dance, as told by Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan...
- Author:Bartleman, JamesSummary:
A young First Nations man sets out from his Muskoka home in a quest for redemption after a terrible fire. In the early 1930s, Oscar Wolf, a 13-year-old Native from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve, sets fire to the business section...
- Author:Hobson, BrandonSummary:
For fifteen years, the Echota family has been grieving their son. As the family's annual bonfire approaches, each of them feels a blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world.
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting...
- Author:Dandurand, Joseph ASummary:
"The Rumour" is a collection of poetry that exposes many important issues of Indigenous discrimination, poverty, drug abuse, brutal violence, love, family, and complex human relationships. As a skilled painter, Joseph A....
- Author:Simpson, CarollSummary:
In her third book inspired by First Nations’ stories, children’s author and illustrator Caroll Simpson explains the significance of community values. She introduces readers to a world of creatures like Sea Lion, Killer Whale, Dogfish...
- Author:Dandurand, Joseph A.Summary:
"Deep in the thickest part of a cedar forest there lived a young Sasquatch. He was over nine feet tall and his feet were about size twenty. He had long brown hair that covered all of his body. His hands were so big and his arms so long...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
A search down a wooded path for a well-hit baseball turns into an encounter between Pamela and a veteran soldier standing in front of a monument. The statue commemorates the heroism of Sgt. Tommy Prince, the most decorated Aboriginal...
- Author:Janicki, PeggySummary:
This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food.
- Author:Leveille, J. R.Summary:
Angèle is a young Métis woman who dreams of becoming an architect. One evening in an art gallery she meets Ueno Takami, an aging Japanese poet. He will change Angèle's life and her way of looking at the world forever.
- Author:Kunuk, ZachariasSummary:
. . . tells the story of a young shaman in training who must face her first test--a trip to the underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has become ill. Facing dark spirits and...
- Author:Meuse, Theresa, Stevens, ArthurSummary:
Matthew loves to play games with his friends and share his toys with them. But most of all he loves to share the special treasures that remind him of his First Nations culture. Perhaps his favourite treasure is the medicine pouch that...
- Author:McCue, DuncanSummary:
At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. Reflecting on his search for his own personal identity,...
- Author:Huson, Brett D.Summary:
To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the sockeye salmon is more than just a source of food. Over its life cycle, it nourishes the very land and forests that the Skeena River runs through and where the Gitxsan make...
- Author:Robertson, David A.Summary:
From the award-winning author of On the Trapline comes a cinematic fantasy-adventure story inspired by Indigenous legends. One summer day, Lauren and her little brother, James, go on a trip to the land with their Moshom (grandfather)....
- Author:Eastman, Charles A.Summary:
Eastman, a Sioux educated in white society, kept his sense of the wholeness and beauty of the Indian's relation to the natural world. These six essays, told in very personal terms and coupled with seven folk tales, illuminate the...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
Curtis has returned to Fort Smith, six weeks sober and determined to stay that way. Can he find healing in his grandfather's ancient cultural practices? Notorious bootlegger, Benny the Bank stands in his way. With poison slowly killing...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
It's a race against time to save Eli, in this third book in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series.
- Author:Akiwenzie-Damm, KateriSummary:
Fourteen stories that illuminate the strange workings of the human heart.