In August 1947, Mary Brock travelled to Northwestern Ontario to start a teaching job at an Indian residential school where she doesn't give up buoyed by her ideals and pragmatism.
Indigenous peoples--North America
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Author:Languedoc, ClaudetteSummary: -
Author:Harjo, JoySummary:From poet laureate of the United States comes this collection of poems in which the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human.
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Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue....
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Author:Wheeler, Jordan, Jackson, DennisSummary:Three city kids increase their survival skills and their understanding of the North when they go to their Mushum's cabin for Christmas
At Christmas time in Northern Saskatchewan, three Cree kids - Talon, Raven and T-Bear - visit...
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Author:Bruchac, JosephSummary:Eleven-year-old Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister must make peace with a hostile gang of older boys in their Mohawk village during the late 1400s.
- Author:Payette, CoreySummary:
Children of God is a powerful musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children were taken away to a residential school in Northern Ontario. The play tells the story of one family: Tommy and Julia, who are trying to survive in the harsh...
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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Author:Michener, James A.Summary:Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is...
- Author:Dickason, Olive PatriciaSummary:
The sweep of Canadian history is both broader and deeper than standard texts reveal. When Europeans first came to Canada, they did not find a wilderness; rather, they encountered a complex, rich society composed of fifty-five individual...
- Author:McCaig, DonaldSummary:
This sequel to Donald McCaig's Civil War novel "Jacob's ladder" delivers a saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a...
- Author:Hokeah, OscarSummary:
A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in fiction. Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of...
- Author:Valiquette, FranceSummary:
Mercedes, après avoir accompli la dernière promesse qu’elle avait faite à Ekis, décide d’aller s’installer en Californie, pensant pouvoir réaliser son rêve de pratiquer de la thérapie avec les chevaux. Mais le vieux chef navajo, Takoya...
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Author:Speare, Elizabeth GeorgeSummary:Miriam Willard and her family are taken captive by Indians from a New Hampshire settlement and brought to Canada as prisoners at the beginning of the French and Indian War.
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Author:Harrison, JimSummary:This book gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume. In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior; overindulges in food, drink, and women while just...
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Author:Fontaine, TheodoreSummary:Theodore (Ted) Fontaine lost his family and freedom just after his seventh birthday, when his parents were forced to leave him at an Indian residential school by order of the Roman Catholic Church and the Government of Canada. Twelve...
- Author:Borrows, John, Larry Chartrand, Fitzgerald, Oonagh E., Risa SchwartzSummary:
Implementation in Canada of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a pivotal opportunity to explore the relationship between international law, Indigenous peoples' own laws, and Canada's...
- Author:Hyde, Anne F.Summary:
A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex...
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Author:Taylor, C. J.Summary:Presents seven creation legends from Native American tribes, accompanied by detailed illustrations.
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Author:Brooks, MarthaSummary:Alexandra's beloved grandfather was fond of saying, Life is full of surprises, and sometimes the good and the bad get all bunched up together. However, he could not have prepared her for the death of her father, a man she never knew,...
- 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...
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