Indigenous Authors - Recommended reading for adults

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Indigenous Authors - Recommended reading for adults

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A minor chorus
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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Small ceremonies :
Edwards, Kyle,
Paper Book
A poignant and heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg, Manitoba's North End, illuminating what it's like to grow up in the heart of an Indigenous city WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR...

3

Bad Cree :
Johns, Jessica,
Paper Book
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home. "A mystery and a horror story about...

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Canadian author.

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The buffalo hunter hunter /
Jones, Stephen Graham,
Paper Book
Selected as One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of the Year A Barack Obama Summer Read Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel Locus Award for Horror Libby Award for Best Horror Nebula, Bram...

5

Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories
Peters, Amanda
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place--from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of...

6

A Grandmother Begins the Story
Porter, Michelle
Paper Book
Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a...

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Canadian author.

7

Treat them as buffalo :
Yoxall, Blair Palmer,
Paper Book
An electrifying anti-Western from an exciting new Indigenous writer. As teenage boys begin to disappear from a great plains Métis community, a young man attempts to uncover the evil force lurking out of sight. In 1885, Nikosis "Niko" Eriksen spends his days playing...

8

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.

9

From the ashes :
Thistle, Jesse,
Paper Book
This #1 internationally bestselling and award-winning memoir about overcoming trauma, prejudice, and addiction by a Métis-Cree author as he struggles to find a way back to himself and his Indigenous culture is "an illuminating, inside account of homelessness, a study of survival and...

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Canadian author.

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