Summer Challenge 2025: Indigenous Reads

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some of our favourite books by Indigenous authors!

Each of our library branches features an Indigenous Reads display, so you can always browse in person!

Updated June 20, 2025
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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...
AND THEN SHE FELL: A NOVEL
Elliott, Alicia.
Paper Book
A Globe and Mail "Best Book of 2023"; a Most Anticipated Book Pick by Good Morning America, Bustle, CrimeReads, Electric Literature, Debutiful, Ms. Magazine, The Nerd Daily, and Paste A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at...
Mamaskatch : a Cree coming of age
McLeod, Darrel J.
Paper Book
Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree family's history. In shifting and unpredictable stories, his mother, Bertha, shared narratives of their culture, their family and the cruelty that she and her sisters endured in residential school....
Orange Shirt Day : September 30th
Webstad, Phyllis
Paper Book
Revised 2023 Edition. Orange Shirt Day, observed annually on September 30th, is also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is an official day to honour Residential School Survivors and their families, and to remember the children who did not come home. What was initially...
Firekeeper's daughter
Boulley, Angeline
Paper Book
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick! A Printz Medal AND Morris Award Winner! Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
Braiding sweetgrass
Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
Ebook
A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member...
Crushed Wild Mint : Poems
Housty, Jess.
Ebook
From the rez to the runway : forging my path in fashion : a memoir
Allaire, Christian
Paper Book
Growing up on the Nipissing First Nation reserve in Northern Ontario, Christian Allaire wanted to work in the fashion industry, a future that seemed like a remote, and unlikely, dream He was first introduced to style and design through his culture's traditional Ojibwe powwow regalia-...
It's All about the Land : Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence
Alfred, Taiaiake.
Ebook
What was said to me : the life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, a Cowichan woman
Peter, Ruby Sti'tum'atul'wut
Paper Book
  A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology, social...
Son of a trickster
Robinson, Eden
Paper Book
CANADA READS 2020 FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER More than ten years after her Giller-shortlisted title Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson returns with a striking and precise coming-of-age novel, in which everyday teen existence meets Indigenous beliefs, crazy family...

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