Kitcikisik / Great Sky: Stories That Fill the Night Sky, is a Cree perspective on stars and constellations. For millennia, humans have stared into the night sky and wondered. Every culture on the face of Nikawiy Aski, Mother Earth, have...
First Nation Communities Read 2022
First Nation Communities Read (FNCR) is an annual reading program launched in 2003 by the First Nations public library community in Ontario. The program is designed to encourage family literacy, and promote the voices of indigenous authors, illustrators, and publishers. Learn more from the FNCR website.
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Author:Buck, WilfredSummary: - Author:McDonald, JohnSummary:
The Neyhiyawak (Plains Cree) word "Kitotam" translates into English as, "He Speaks to It." This is a collection of free-verse poetry by Indigenous poet and artist John McDonald. Written in two parts, these poems chronicle John's life...
- Author:Davidson, Robert, Gibbons, Janine, Davidson, Sara FlorenceSummary:
In this book, a son (Robert Davidson) learns to carve argillite from his father and grandfather. While carving, the son thinks back on a trip with his father when they gathered argillite from Slatechuck Mountain on Haida Gwaii. He...
- Author:Howard, Liz.Summary:
The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent . Griffin Poetry Prize, Finalist. I have to believe my account will outpace its ending. The danger and necessity of...
- Author:Thomas-Müller, ClaytonSummary:
An electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor. There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child...
- 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: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:Spathelfer, TeoniSummary:
A young Indigenous girl moves to the big city and learns to find connections to her culture and the land wherever she goes, despite encountering bullies and feelings of isolation along the way. When Little Wolf moves to the big city...
- 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:Hill, Dawn CherylSummary:
- Author:Abel, JordanSummary:
From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking and emotionally devastating autobiographical meditation on the complicated legacies that Canada's reservation school system has cast on his grandparents', his parents'...
- Author:McGowan-Ross, TaraSummary:
Tara McGowan-Ross, an infamous Montreal party girl, discovers a lump in her breast, which sends her on a tumultuous journey of rigorous self-questioning. This coming-of-age memoir weaves together a hilarious and heartbreaking story...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
A picture book celebrating Indigenous culture and traditions. The Governor General Award-winning team behind When We Were Alone shares a story that honors our connections to our past and our grandfathers and fathers. A boy and Moshom,...
- Author:Highway, TomsonSummary:
Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performers Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the 11th of 12 children in a nomadic, caribou-...
- Author:McLeod, Darrel J.Summary:
Mamaskatch, Darrel J. McLeod's 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensation--winning the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes and translated into...
- Author:Bird-Wilson, LisaSummary:
For readers of Tommy Orange's There There and Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries, Probably Ruby is an audacious, brave and beautiful book about an adopted woman's search for her Indigenous identity. Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is...
- Author:Ranville, ErrolSummary:
Errol Ranville has been running all his life: from chronic poverty and racism in rural Manitoba; a discriminatory music business; alcohol and drug addiction; and the responsibilities that come with being regarded as a role model. Though...
- Author:Gereaux, TaraSummary:
It's the '90s in a small Canadian prairie town and fourteen-year-old Aaron Gourlay, born a male, asserts that she is female, a claim that no one in her life will accept--except for her single mother, Nadine. After wrestling with the...
- Author:Hall, HarronSummary:
A little girl meets a water spirit who asks her to protect and care for the water.
- Author:McIvor, BruceSummary:
Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada's "reconciliation project" has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor...
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