Indigenous Authors - Recommended reading for adults

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VenCo
Dimaline, Cherie
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Empire of Wild, a wickedly subversive, deliciously imaginative, deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise--a book that only the supremely gifted storyteller Cherie Dimaline could write. Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a...

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Canadian author.

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Bad Cree: A Novel
Johns, Jessica
Paper Book
2024 CBC CANADA READS SELECTION AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLIST A CBC BOOKS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ALEX AWARD WINNER AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL SHORTLIST RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR LITERARY FICTION SHORTLIST<...

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Canadian author.

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The Sentence
Erdrich, Louise
Paper Book
"Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that."--USA Today, Four Stars ...

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A two-spirit journey : the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder
Chacaby, Ma-Nee
Paper Book
Winner of Canada Reads 2025 From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community, Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social and economic legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned...

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Canadian author.

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Buffalo is the new Buffalo : stories
Vowel, Chelsea
Paper Book
'Education is the new buffalo' is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival, as once Plains nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. Chelsea Vowel asks, 'Instead of accepting that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways,...

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Canadian author.

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Probably Ruby
Bird-Wilson, Lisa
Paper Book
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 placed in a foster home...

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Canadian author.

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Cinq petits indiens : roman
Good, Michelle
Paper Book

Canada, fin des annees 1960. Des milliers de jeunes autochtones, liberes des pensionnats, essaient de survivre dans le quartier d'East Vancouver, entre prostitution, drogue et petits boulots.. Il y a Maisie, qui semble si forte ; la discrete Lucy, epanouie dans la maternite ; Clara, la rebelle, engagee dans l'American Indian Movement ; Kenny, qui ne sait plus comment s'arreter de fuir, et, enfin, Howie, condamne pour avoir rosse son ancien tortionnaire.. D'une plume puissante, Michelle Good raconte les destins entremeles de ces survivants.

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Auteure canadienne.

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The theory of crows : a novel
Robertson, David
Paper Book
A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When a troubled father and his estranged teenage daughter head out onto the land in search of the family trapline, they find their way back to themselves, and to each other Deep in the night,...

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Canadian author.

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La force de marcher
Kinew, Wab
Paper Book

Hommage d'un fils a son pere, La force de marcher raconte la vie de Tobasonakwut, chef Anishinaabe de la nation Ojibwe. Survivant des pensionnats autochtones, grand chef et defenseur des droits civiques, il a mene, malgre le cancer qui le rongeait, une entreprise de reconciliation qui demeure l'un de ses plus importants legs. Ce recit temoigne du combat et des chemins de resistance des Premieres Nations du Canada.

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Auteur manitobain.

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Moon of the crusted snow : a novel
Rice, Waubgeshig
Paper Book
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the council and community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south...

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Canadian author.

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Midnight storm moonless sky : Indigenous horror stories
Soop, Alex
Paper Book
Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop plunges us into a shocking well of imagination in his debut collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky. From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the sorrows of racism, Soop combines the social anxieties of...

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Canadian author.

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A Minor Chorus: A Novel
Belcourt, Billy-Ray
Paper Book
*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE* NATIONAL BESTSELLER An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada's most daring literary talents. ...

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Canadian author.

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There There
Tommy Orange
Paper Book

A Oakland, dans la baie de San Francisco, les Indiens ne vivent pas sur une reserve mais dans un univers, faconne par la rue et par la pauvret, ou chacun porte les traces d'une histoire douloureuse. Pourtant, les membres de cette communaute disparate tiennent a celebrer la beaute d'une culture que l'Amerique a bien failli engloutir. A l'occasion d'un grand pow-wow, douze personnages, hommes et femmes, jeunes et moins jeunes, voient leurs destins se lier. Ensemble, ils vont faire l'experience de la violence et de la destruction, comme leurs ancetres tant de fois avant eux.

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Birdie : a novel
Lindberg, Tracey
Paper Book
Bernice Meetoos will not be broken. A big, beautiful Cree woman with a dark secret in her past, Bernice ("Birdie") has left her home in northern Alberta to travel to Gibsons, B.C. She is on something of a vision quest, looking for family, for home, for understanding. She is also driven by...

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Canadian author.

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Chasseur au harpon : un long rčit de Markoosie : roman
Markoosie
Paper Book

Paru il y a cinquante ans, Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut (Chasseur au harpon) est considere comme le premier roman en inuktitut jamais publie. Cette aventure trepidante, marquee de bout en bout par la violence et la mort, nous plonge dans la realite d'une communaute encore preservee de l'intrusion de la modernite.

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Auteur canadien.

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Birdie
Lindberg, Tracey
Paper Book

Quand Bernice Meetoos, alias Birdie, quitte sa reserve et son Alberta natales pour venir s'installer dans un petit logement au-dessus d'une boulangerie a Gibsons, en Colombie-Britannique, des forces mysterieuses semblent trouver un malin plaisir a lui faire perdre pied. Souvent, inopinement, elle entre dans un etat de transe sur le vieux matelas de sa chambre. Tandis que sa tante Val et sa cousine Freda font la route pour venir a son chevet, Bernice reste prostree pendant des semaines, oscillant entre le souvenir, le reve et la realite.

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A Grandmother Begins the Story
Porter, Michelle
Paper Book
National Bestseller Winner of the 2024 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the...

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Canadian author.

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The strangers : a novel
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS' CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD, MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION, AND MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD...

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Manitoban author.

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Five little Indians
Good, Michelle
Paper Book
WINNER: Canada Reads 2022 WINNER: Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction WINNER: Amazon First Novel Award WINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize  Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize Finalist: BC & Yukon...

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Canadian author.

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Indian Horse
Wagamese, Richard.
Paper Book
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he's a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he's sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he'll find it only through telling his...

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Canadian author.

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Femmes Stranger.
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Apres des annees en famille d'accueil, la douce Cedar rencontre son pere et part vivre avec lui, esperant que s'ouvre enfin un chapitre plus calme de sa vie. Sa soeur Phoenix purge quant a elle sa peine de prison, se demandant si elle merite ou non de se pardonner pour le mal qu'elle a fait. Leur mere, Elsie, toujours esclave de ses dependances, reve du jour ou elles seront reunies et ou elle pourra reellement les soutenir, contrairement a sa propre mere si froide.

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Auteure manitobaine.

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Cheval Indian
Wagamese, Richard
Paper Book

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Auteur canadien.

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Amour aux temps d'après (L')
Whitehead, Joshua.
Paper Book

Sous la direction de Joshua Whitehead, etoile montante de la litterature indigiqueer, L'amour aux temps d’apres est un projet collectif unique en son genre, au confluent de la science-fiction, de la culture queer et de la tradition autochtone. Neuf auteur·es des Premieres Nations y imaginent des personnages LGBTQ2S+ dans un monde post-apocalyptique, mais sous l'angle de l'utopie, de l'espoir et de la solidarite.

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From the ashes : my story of being Métis, homeless, and finding my way
Thistle, Jesse
Paper Book
*#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER *Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction *Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards *Winner, High Plains Book Awards *Finalist, CBC Canada Reads *A Globe and Mail Book of the Year *An Indigo Book of the...

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Canadian author.

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My Indian summer : a novel
Kakwinokanasum, Joseph
Paper Book
Winner of the PMC Indigenous Literature Award 2023 Three kohkums, a man named Crow, two best friends, and a drug dealer . . . twelve-year-old Hunter may be getting out of Red Rock sooner than he hoped. For Hunter Frank, the summer of '79 begins with his mother returning home only to...

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Canadian author.

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Surviving Canada : indigenous peoples celebrate 150 years of betrayal
Ladner, Kiera L.
Paper Book
Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples' complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how--even 150 years after Confederation--the fight for recognition of...

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Canadian author.

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L'amant du Lac
Pésémapéo Bordeleau, Virginia
Paper Book

Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau nous offre une histoire d'amour torride, sauvage et puissante entre Wabougouni, une Algonquine et Gabriel, un metis. Violence, colere et extase rythment cette relation tumultueuse avec pour toile de fond la nature evoutante du lac Abitibi.

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Auteure canadienne.

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The Lover, the Lake
Pesemapeo Bordeleau, Virginia
Paper Book
A spellbinding novel celebrating Indigenous sensuality; the first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman in French. Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. When it was first published in Quebec, The Lover, The Lake was heralded as the first...

Canadian author.

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Kuessipan: À Toi
Fontaine, Naomi
Paper Book

Kuessipan est un livre bouleversant qui nous fait decouvrir le quotidien sur une reserve innue.

Auteure canadienne.

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Women of the fur trade
Koncan, Frances
Paper Book
In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel. Marie-Angelique, a...

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Manitoban author.

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There there
Orange, Tommy
Paper Book
Here is a voice we have never heard--a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with stunning urgency and force. Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and...

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Kuessipan
Fontaine, Naomi
Paper Book
A fictionalized, meditative chronicle of life among the Innu in rural northeastern Quebec. Kuessipan ("to you" in the Innu language) is an extraordinary, meditative novel about life among the Native Innu people in the wilds of northeastern Quebec. Naomi Fontaine, herself an...

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Canadian author.

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Hold Your Tongue
Tétreault, Matthew
Paper Book
Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions...

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Canadian author.

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Qimmik
Jean, Michel
Paper Book

Entre la taiga et la toundra, un jeune couple inuit du Nunavik se decouvre et apprend a s'aimer. Accompagnes de leurs chiens, les qimmiit, Saullu et Ulaajuk parcourent un continent encore sauvage, tous libres et solidaires. Quelques decennies plus tard, une avocate est depechee sur la Cote-Nord pour defendre un meurtrier inuk dont les victimes sont d'anciens policiers de la Securite du Quebec. Sa quete de justice l'emmenera au-dela de ce qu'elle avait imagine.

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Auteur canadien.

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Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Sinclair, Niigaan
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Winner of the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of 2024 by Audible, Spotify, and Winnipeg Free Press * One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 From ground zero of this country's most...

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Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir
Caetano, Cody
Paper Book
*WINNER OF THE 2023 INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARD FOR PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH* *FINALIST FOR THE 2023 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR* *LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* *LONGLISTED...

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Canadian author.


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Love after the end : an anthology of Two-spirit & Indigiqueer speculative fiction
Whitehead, Joshua (Writer)
Paper Book
This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity...
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Running down a Dream: A Memoir
Palmater, Candy
Paper Book
A powerful, often funny, always inspiring memoir from a beloved comedian, professional orator, actor, entertainer, gone all too soon. Candy Palmater loved to connect with people. She lived for the stage, her effervescent presence on television and radio ignited and inspired audiences,...

Canadian author.

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Cold : a novel
Taylor, Drew Hayden
Paper Book
Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that's passing him by; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders,...

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Canadian author.

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Namwayut : we are all one : a pathway to reconciliation
Joseph, Robert
Paper Book
BC and Yukon Book Prizes, Winner of the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award, 2023 We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Reconciliation belongs to everyone. In this profound book, Chief Robert...

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Canadian author.

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Jonny Appleseed : a novel
Whitehead, Joshua (Writer)
Paper Book
'You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine' is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who...

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Canadian author.

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Jonny Appleseed
Whitehead, Joshua (Writer)
Paper Book

Travailleur du cybersexe, Jonny doit rentrer a la reserve dans une semaine pour assister aux funerailles de son beau-pere. Pendant ces sept jours, Jonny se raconte : enfance, amitie, amour, sexe, alcool, maquillage, musique, fantomes, espoirs. Le fil des liens familiaux se retisse avec sa mere, sa kokum, ses tantes et oncles. Surgit tout un monde de tendresse.

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Auteur canadien.

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A short history of the blockade : giant beavers, diplomacy, and regeneration in Nishnaabewin
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Paper Book
In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver--or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through...

Canadian author.

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The 500 years of Indigenous resistance comic book
Hill, Gord
Paper Book
A powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of indigenous resistance to the European colonisation of the Americas, beginning with the Spanish invasion under Christopher Columbus and ending with the Six Nations land reclamation in Ontario in 2006. Gord Hill spent two years unearthing...

Canadian author.

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Permanent astonishment : a memoir
Highway, Tomson
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER   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 eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic,...

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Canadian author.

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My Privilege, My Responsibility: A Memoir
North, Sheila
Paper Book
Finalist, Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction Finalist, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book In September 2015, Sheila North was declared the Grand Chief of Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO), the first woman elected to the position. Known as a "bridge builder"...

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Manitoban author.

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Peace and good order : the case for indigenous justice in Canada
Johnson, Harold
Paper Book
An urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by national bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson. "The night of the decision in the Gerald Stanley trial for the murder of...

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Canadian author.

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Indian in the cabinet : speaking truth to power
Wilson-Raybould, Jody
Paper Book
THE #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY A compelling political memoir of leadership and speaking truth to power by one of the most inspiring women of her generation Jody Wilson-Raybould was raised to be a leader. Inspired by the...

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Canadian author.

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Halfbreed
Campbell, Maria
Paper Book
A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic. An unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a Métis woman in Canada, Maria Campbell's Halfbreed depicts the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan...

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Canadian author.

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Halfbreed : récit
Campbell, Maria
Paper Book

Elevee sur une reserve routiere de la Couronne dans le nord de la Saskatchewan, Maria Campbell est une enfant sensible et determinee qui, malgre la precarite ambiante, s'emerveille devant le quotidien anime de sa communaute. Apres le deces de sa mere, elle se marie a un Blanc afin d'offrir une vie meilleure a ses freres et soeurs, mais echoue plutot dans les bas-fonds de Vancouver, ou elle connait la prostitution, la dependance et la depression. Inspiree par sa Cheechum, elle s'engage alors sur la voie de la guerison.

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Auteure canadienne.

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The North-West is our mother : the story of Louis Riel's people, the Métis Nation
Teillet, Jean
Paper Book
There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada's Indigenous peoples--the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years...

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Canadian author.

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All our relations : finding the path forward
Talaga, Tanya
Paper Book
Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding Finalist, 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Tanya Talaga, the bestselling author of Seven Fallen...

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Canadian author.

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Renouer avec la Terre et tout ce qui nous unit : pour trouver notre voie
Talaga, Tanya
Paper Book

Tanya Talaga, auteure du succes Seven Fallen Feathers et boursiere Atkinson en politique publique, attire notre attention sur une crise humanitaire mondiale urgente parmi les peuples autochtones - le suicide des jeunes.

Auteure canadienne.

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The reason you walk
Kinew, Wab
Ebook
A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic aboriginal star When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd...

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Manitoban author.

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The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of Native people in North America
King, Thomas
Paper Book
An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work. "Every Canadian should read [this] book." --Toronto Star Since its publication in 2012, The...

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Canadian author.

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L'Indien Malcommode: Un Portrait Inattendu des Autochtones D'Amérique du Nord
King, Thomas
Paper Book

L'Indien malcommode est a la fois un ouvrage d'histoire et une subversion de l'histoire officielle. En somme, c'est le resultat de la reflexion personnelle et critique que Thomas King a menee depuis un demi-siecle sur ce que cela signifie d'etre Indien aujourd'hui en Amerique du Nord. Ce livre n'est pas tant une condamnation du comportement des uns ou des autres qu'une analyse supremement intelligente des liens complexes qu'entretiennent les Blancs et les Indiens.

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Auteur canadien.

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North End love songs
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book
Katherena Vermette's award-winning poetry collection North End Love Songs is an ode to the place she grew up, where the beauty of the natural world is overlaid with the rough reality of crime and racism. When a young girl's brother goes missing, she learns what prejudice and discrimination...

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Manitoban author.

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Ballades D'amour du North End
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book

Katherena Vermette, poete metisse du Manitoba, nous offre un chant rythme qui nous envoute peu a peu et nous entraine au coeur de l'univers complexe qui le nourrit : l'extremite nord de Winnipeg, le « Northend » comme l'appellent ses habitants pour la plupart Amerindiens ou Metis. Chaque poeme est un tableau que brossent par petites touches sa langue depouillee, vraie, ses images fortes puisant a meme ce paysage urbain, rude et pourtant inspirant.

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Auteure manitobaine.

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Manitowapow : Aboriginal writings from the land of water
Cariou, Warren
Paper Book
In the middle of the continent, where waterways and rivers gather in immense lakes, many different peoples have met, lived, and thrived. Travel back through the millennia and forward to the present day to gain a dynamic picture of a territory interconnected through words, ideas, and experiences.<...

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Kau Minuat Une fois de plus
Josephine Bacon
Paper Book

Quatrieme recueil de poemes en innu-aimun et en français ou Josephine Bacon renouvelle son univers. Loin des legendes innues, l'ainee des poetes s'installe entre les saisons et avance lentement dans une meditation sur l'arbre, le temps et le silence.

Auteure canadienne.


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