Where forest and sea meet beneath an ever-changing sky. In this brave first book, Lucy Haché transports the reader with her personal revelations on self-awareness and identity. Through skilled restraint and beautifully astute...
Prairie Indigenous Ebook Collection
The Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection was launched by the Alberta libraries in partnership with the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. It brings together over 200 titles from publishers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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Author:Haché, LucySummary: -
Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod. A photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. The Shores's...
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Author:Johnson, HaroldSummary:Eighty years have passed since flash floods, droughts, and tornadoes have ravaged the North American landscape and mass migrations to the north have led to decade-long wars. In the thriving city of La Ronge, George Taylor and Lenore...
- Author:Krotz, LarrySummary:
Indigenous youngsters from two communities in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with with what looked like type 2 diabetes. Over the next few decades more children would confront what was turning into not...
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
Colourful drawings illustrate the numbers through ten in English, French, and Cree.
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The fourth book in this colourful and unique series introduces twenty-two basic words in English, French, and Cree relating to familiar people at home and in the community.Neepin Auger's books for children contain original,...
- Author:Auger, NeepinSummary:
This updated edition includes a few replacement words and new artwork, gently refreshing the content to help teach the basics of early language in English, French, and Cree.Neepin Auger's books for children contain original,...
- Author:Evans, C.D., Shyba, L. M.Summary:
"Ducks Redux is a Y/A RomCom about Maeve Wong, an environmental science graduate who gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons who plan to take over the government of Oil Land. One love of...
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Author:Johnson, HaroldSummary:In a passionate call to action, Harold Johnson, Cree trapper and Crown Prosecutor, examines alcohol--its history, its myths, and its devastating impact on his community. Confronting what he calls a crime against humanity--one in every...
- Author:Flett, LeonardSummary:
This is a story about the fur trade and First Nations, and the development of northern Canada, seen and experienced not only through Leonard Flett's eyes, but also through the eyes of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather...
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Author:Groulx, David A.Summary:"With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabe writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding of colonial pasts and...
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Author:Wilson, GarrettSummary:"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched." -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning. "Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's Land to...
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"In the decades since the passing of the Pamajewon ruling in Canada and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in the United States, gaming has come to play a crucial role in how Indigenous peoples are represented and read by both...
- Author:Muswagon, ZacharySummary:
The Compliance Officer for a First Nations Band has been shot in the head and left for dead. Unable to cross over to the great huntings grounds Billy ghostkeeper muct stay and discover who murdered him and why. Through strange, funny...
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Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:"Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and is working to manufacture and weaponize the virus that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are dying. The...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
In Richard Van Camp's fictionalized north anything can happen and yet each story is rooted in a vivid contemporary reality. The stories offer a potent mix tape of tropes from science fiction, horror, Western and Aboriginal...
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Author:White, SusanSummary:Franny Callaghan is the awkward middle child in a family with a mother who has locked herself away in her room, and a father and younger sister who travel most of the time, training her sister to be an Olympic speed skater. Franny'...
- Author:Manuel, VeraSummary:
"This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in...
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"Drawing on the expertise of Indigenous scholars and researchers, including voices from the front lines in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, this book examines child welfare practices in kinship care, FASD, homelessness, aging out of...
- Author:Kaiser-Derrick, ElspethSummary:
"Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and through ongoing processes of...
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