Indigenous History Month (Adults)

Updated March 12, 2025
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Reconciling history : a story of Canada
Wilson-Raybould, Jody
Paper Book
One of Indigo's Top 10 History Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024 * One of the Toronto Star's 25 books to read this season * One of Kobo CA's Best Nonfiction Ebooks of the Year * One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 From the #1 national bestselling...
Who we are : four questions for a life and a nation
Sinclair, Murray
Paper Book
For decades, Senator Sinclair has fearlessly educated Canadians about the painful truths of our history. He was the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba, and only the second Indigenous judge in Canadian history. He was the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and remains one of the...
The circle
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The Circle is a polyphonic masterpiece." --Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant and unwavering epic told from a...
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...
North of nowhere : song of a Truth and Reconciliation commissioner
Wilson, Marie (Journalist)
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The Hill Times 100 Best Book of 2024 * The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it.  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established...
The knowing
Talaga, Tanya
Paper Book
From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family's story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members...
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island
Monkman, Kent
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gis le Gordon, a transformational work of true stories and imagined history that will remake readers' understanding of the land called North America. For decades,...
Real ones : a novel
Vermette, Katherena
Paper Book
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE* From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity. June...
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...
From the Ashes : My Story of Being Me tis, 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...
Me tomorrow : Indigenous views on the future
Taylor, Drew Hayden
Paper Book
First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists, activists, educators and writers, youth and elders come together to envision Indigenous futures in Canada and around the world. Discussing everything from language renewal to sci-fi, this collection is a powerful and important expression of...
Making love with the land : essays
Whitehead, Joshua (Writer)
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Much-anticipated non-fiction from the author of the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed. "Thrillingly cerebral....
Daughters of the Deer
Daniel, Danielle
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER   In this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family's ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers. ...
True North rising : my fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North
Fraser, Whit
Paper Book
In True North Rising, Whit Fraser delivers a smart, touching and astute living history of five decades that transformed the North, a span he witnessed first as a longtime CBC reporter and then through his friendships and his work with Dene and Inuit activists and leaders. Whit had a front-row seat...
Noopiming : the cure for white ladies
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Paper Book
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice,...
The right to be cold : one woman's story of protecting her culture, the Arctic and the whole planet
Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2017 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The Right to Be Cold is a human story of resilience, commitment, and survival told from the unique vantage point of an Inuk woman who, in spite of many obstacles, rose from humble beginnings in...
Empire of wild : a novel
Dimaline, Cherie
Paper Book
INDIGO'S #1 BEST BOOK OF 2019 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARROW THIEVES, THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, MULTI-AWARD WINNER AND CANADA READS FINALIST "Wildly entertaining and profound and essential." --Tommy Orange, The New York Times<...
Cold : a novel
Taylor, Drew Hayden
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER . Longlisted for the Leacock Medal of Humour . One of Kobo CA's Top Horror Ebooks and Top Horror Audiobook of 2024 A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award...
Wandering Stars : A Novel
Orange, Tommy.
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize * Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal in Excellence for Fiction * A New York Times Editors' Choice * An NPR Book of the Day * Named a Best Book of 2024 (So Far) by the New York Times, Esquire, Vulture<...
Moon of the turning leaves : a novel
Rice, Waubgeshig
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Twelve years after the lights go out . . . An epic journey to a forgotten homeland The hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. In the years since a mysterious cataclysm...
All the quiet places
Isaac, Brian Thomas
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award Longlisted...
Life in two worlds : a coach's journey from the reserve to the NHL and back
Nolan, Ted
Paper Book
#1 BESTSELLER In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn't work in pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened? Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates...

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