Oolichan Moon is a beautifully illustrated children's book about passing down traditional knowledge from Nisga'a Elders and the sacredness of traditional foods, particularly the oolichan fish. Together, author Samantha Beynon and...
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Author:Beynon, SamanthaSummary: - Author:Carriere, KenSummary:
A first-hand account of a Swampy Cree boy's experiences growing up in the Saskatchewan River Delta, one of the world's largest inland deltas and one of North America's most important ecosystems. Depicting an Indigenous lifestyle that...
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On her first day at Residential School, Phyllis Webstad was forced to take off her shiny orange shirt. The shirt was taken away and never returned. Orange Shirt Day was inspired by Phyllis Webstad's story. By wearing an orange shirt on...
- Author:Challenger, Robert JamesSummary:
This collection of west-coast fables combines the approach of Aesop with the oral tradition of First Nations storytellers. Woodpecker shows how to be a true friend. Beaver demonstrates how to achieve dreams through hard work. Rainbow...
- Author:Nelson, Melissa K.Summary:
Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to today’s global crisis
• Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature
• Explores the convergence of...
- Author:Janisse, MelanieSummary:
Orioles in the Oranges is a collection of poems that tells the story of love and loss as they find common ground in a Metis legend and in modern times. The poems weave the contemporary voice of a young woman who finds herself on Pelee...
- Author:Fritz, AndreaSummary:
In this picture book featuring Coast Salish art and traditional storytelling techniques, a salmon and an otter learn to help each other even though they don't have all the answers. Some hul'q'umi'num' words throughout text (not a dual-...
- Author:Borrows, Lindsay KeegitahSummary:
Otter's Journey employs the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Indigenous languages and laws need bodies to live in....
- Author:Borrows, Lindsay KeegitahSummary:
Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the...
- Author:Estes, NickSummary:
In Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.
- Author:Wright, ShelleySummary:
The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived. While the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development at the top of the world,...
- Author:Morin, BrandiSummary:
A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous Peoples. Brandi Morin is known for her clear-eyed and empathetic reporting on...
- Author:Bordeleau, Virginia PésémapéoSummary:
Ce roman de Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau resitue la société amérindienne dans le contexte de la modernité, avec ses forces et ses déchirements, et met en lumière le profond humanisme de cette culture, à travers une quête identitaire qui...
- Author:Knockwood, IsabelleSummary:
In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them...
- Author:Guest, JacquelineSummary:
A 2012 Gold Moonbeam Award winner from Jacqueline Guest, recipient of the 2013 Indspire Award for the Arts.
After the death of her father, Kathryn must go to live with her Aunt Belle in Alberta. But a shock is in store for this...
- Author:Mahon, AnneSummary:
With a foreword by Beatrice Mosionier. Abandonment, loss, endless transitions, self-reliance, continued persistence, and fierce beauty all coexist in this compelling collection of stories of ten women who journey from victims of the...
- Author:Carry the Kettle First NationSummary:
Born out of a well-researched current and traditional land-use study led by Čeǵ́á K'inna Nakóda Oyáde (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage (A telling of stories) is the first book to tell the comprehensive story of the...
- Author:Miller, David Reed, Tanner, Tracey, Martin-McGuire, Peggy, Tanner, James N.Summary:
"Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega' Kínna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the definitive, comprehensive...
- Author:Mander, JerrySummary:
Author and cultural critic Jerry Mander and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global Indigenous peoples' movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive...
- Author:Sacco, JoeSummary:
The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic...
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