Zach learns that he is the only surviving member of the Agawa Indian tribe. In his search for his roots he finds his lost tribe amongst his contemporaries.
Indigenous peoples--North America
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Author:CRAIG, JohnSummary: - Author:Berthiaume, SarahSummary:
Garin was two years old when his mother disappeared from a rundown East Vancouver neighbourhood. Now that the Robert Pickton trial is gaining national attention, Garin wonders if his mother, a First Nations woman, could be one of his...
- Author:Unwin, PeterSummary:
Paul Prescot’s desire to catalogue and comprehend the aboriginal rock paintings of the Canadian Shield is told through the eyes of the woman he loves, and who, for her own reasons, accompanies him on his travels to the deep north. Her...
- Author:Weiden, David Heska WanbliSummary:
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard...
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Author:Demers, BarbaraSummary:Willa is a thirteen-year-old orphan shipped to the new world in 1795. Resourceful and strong-willed, she survives many hardships before travelling on foot from Hudson's Bay to Fort Edmonton with native companions who show her a...
- Author:Washuta, ElissaSummary:
Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic....
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Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:Two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a "flip-book" format, which offers the intended audiences two important perspectives in one package.
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Author:Dugan, ChelleSummary:After losing control of his truck on a dark road, Nicholas Lasher finds himself on a cattle ranch in the late nineteenth century with a mesmerizing Indian named Bear Claw. Bear Claw claims Nicholas’s body and heart, and nothing has ever...
- Author:LaRocque, EmmaSummary:
In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian...
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Author:Johnston, AviaqSummary:Nalvana feels like all of her friends have some type of superpower. She has friends with super speed (who always beat her in races), friends with super strength (who can dangle from the monkey bars for hours), and friends who are better...
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Author:Lowinger, Kathy, Yellowhorn, EldonSummary:What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the...
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Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:Miskwaadesi is puzzled about the teaching Truth. But she knows more than she thinks she does. The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in these seven stories...
- Author:Lucas, WalterSummary:
Raised by Kiowa tribesmen, Boytale is now 17 years old and filled with an insatiable thirst for the blood of his people's enemies. Across the prairie at Fort Levenworth, Kansas, 20-year-old army private James Rambling gears up for...
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Author:Alexie, ShermanSummary:As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman...
- Author:Groulx, DavidSummary:
"Waniskatota ka pe wapahk", a Cree translation of "Rising with a Distant Dawn", is a powerful poetry collection that stretches across boundaries to give a voice to the lives and experiences of ordinary Indigenous...
- Author:Kinew, WabSummary:
An Indigenous teen girl caught is between two worlds both real and virtual in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series. Bugz is caught between two...
- Author:Saunt, ClaudioSummary:
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational,...
- Author:Sterritt, AngelaSummary:
As a Gitxsan teenager navigating life on the streets, Angela Sterritt wrote in her journal to help her survive and find her place in the world. Now an acclaimed journalist, she writes for major news outlets to push for justice and to...
- Author:Bacon, JoséphineSummary:
Avec Joséphine Bacon commence une nouvelle histoire de la poésie québécoise. Prix des libraires 2019 Finaliste au Indigenous Voices Award 2019 Uiesh - Quelque part est un recueil bilingue français-innu aimum. Quelque part, une...
- Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:
A boy discovers his Native American heritage in this Depression-era tale of identity and friendship by the author of Code TalkerIt's 1932, and twelve-year-old Cal Black and his Pop have been riding the rails for years after losing...
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