It's the summer of 1914. Eight-year-old Bernice lives with her family in a lighthouse on Georgian Bay. Bernice doesn't get to explore much farther than their island, but she has her books to fuel her imagination, including her favorite...
Indigenous materials
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Author:Outram, JessicaSummary: - Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty...
- Author:Palmater, Pamela D., Montour, Bill, Six Nations of the Grand River, Paul, Candice, St. Mary’s First Nation, Paul, Lawrence, Millbrook First Nation, Day, Isadore, Serpent River First NationSummary:
The current Status criteria of the Indian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the...
- Author:Miller, J. R.Summary:
Big Bear, chief of a Plains Cree community in western Canada in the late nineteenth century, was a transitional figure between the height of Plains Indian culture and the modern era. During the 1870s and early 1880s, Big Bear became the...
- Author:Cooper, NancySummary:
Today, Amik is expecting her beaver cousins for a special visit, and she can't wait to show them her home. But as the visitors arrive, Amik suddenly realizes that her little sister, Nishiime, has disappeared. Where could she have gone?...
- Author:Flett, JulieSummary:
** IBBY Canada 2022 Honor List ** When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of arts and crafts. Can the girl navigate...
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
For over 200 years, Pelican Narrows Indian Reserve in northern Saskatchewan has endured a torturous relationship with the encroaching European culture, from the Hudson{u2019}s Bay Company factors and Oblate missionaries of earlier times...
- Author:Jackson, JoeSummary:
Native American Black Elk is known to millions from the book Black Elk Speaks. Yet the man himself faded from view, even though he witnessed momentous events in the American West. Now Joe Jackson has crafted an American epic, restoring...
- Author:Black Elk, Neihardt, John G., Deloria, VineSummary:
A timeless and inspiring autobiographical account of the great religious and historical vision of an American Indian healer, Black Elk Speaks has become a revered spiritual classic for all peoples everywhere. Black Elk (1863-1950) was a...
- Author:Lundy, RandySummary:
An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land. Randy Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions. Readers will be reminded by turns of Simon Ortiz, Per Lagerkvist,...
- Author:Seesequasis, PaulSummary:
A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs - a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis's popular social media project. The narrative essay...
- Author:Pennock, TylerSummary:
Indigenous Poetry; Cree Identity; Métis Identity; Two-Spirit; Colonialism; Sex Work; Relationships; Trauma Remembrance; Memory; Reconciliation; Healing
- Author:Sedgwick, JohnSummary:
An astonishing untold story from America's past-a sweeping, powerful, and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee. Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee...
- Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
During a mosquito-infested summer in Edmonton, Métis journalist Leo Desroches, who has just been released from jail, is called to the scene of an apparent overdose of a young Native man in the inner city. Some white rocks spill out of...
- Author:Rogers, Janet MarieSummary:
Written as a stage play and set within a fictional gameshow. Blood Sport, through a satirical lens confronts the absurdity and harmful consequences of false claims of Indigenous identity, and delves into this complex topic of...
- Author:Pésémapéo Bordeleau, VirginiaSummary:
Blue Bear Woman (Ourse bleue) is the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman. The story of a young Cree woman's search for her roots and identity, this is also the author's debut novel, originally published in...
- Author:Marcotte, Danielle S.Summary:
The captivating story of how the Blue Camas, a flower that has been cultivated on Canada's west coast since time immemorial, came to symbolize the meeting of two contrasting ways of life and the perseverance of traditional knowledge...
- Author:Halfe, Louise Bernice (Sky Dancer)Summary:
In Blue Marrow, award-winning poet Louise Bernice Halfe creates an intricate dance of language and voice. A contemporary narrator, a Cree woman, draws into her own story the poignant history of her ancestors and the Europeans they...
- Author:Kanapé Fontaine, NatashaSummary:
In this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginal writer from Quebec again confronts the loss of her landscape and language.
- Author:Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California,...
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