Voices in Circle Series - Shane Koyczan

Books and music to support your experience at UVic Farquhar Auditorium's presentation of Shane Koyczan as part of their Voices in Circle Series: Amplifying Indigenous Cultural Voices, on February 26, 2025.

Updated October 12, 2024
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Blood
Pennock, Tyler, 1977- author. 
Paper Book
* Longlisted 2023 ReLit Award *Longlisted 2023 First Nations Community READS Award Blood follows a Two-Spirit Indigenous person as they navigate urbanity, queerness, and a kaleidoscope of dreams, memory, and kinship. Conceived in the same world as their...
Call me Indian : from the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL's first treaty Indigenous player
Sasakamoose, Fred
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Fred Sasakamoose played in the NHL before First Nations people had the right to vote in Canada. This page turner will have you cheering for 'Fast Freddy' as he faces off against huge challenges both on and off the ice--a great gift to every proud hockey fan,...
E nâtamukw miyeyimuwin. residential school recovery stories of the James Bay Cree / Volume one
DyckFehderau, Ruth
Paper Book
In this quietly powerful and deeply human book, Ruth DyckFehderau and twenty-one James Bay Cree storytellers put a face to Canada's Indian Residential School cultural genocide. Through intimate personal stories of trauma, loss, recovery, and joy, they tell of experiences in...
Early days Indigenous art from the McMichael
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, host institution, publisher. 
Paper Book
Winner of the 2023 Canadian Museum Association award for Outstanding Achievement in Research A landmark publication bringing together more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Under...
The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir
Merasty, Joseph Auguste.
Paper Book
The Education of Augie Merasty offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, Joseph A. (Augie) Merasty was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were...
Inconvenient skin = Nyêhtâwan wasakay
Koyczan, Shane L., 1976- author. 
Paper Book
Key Selling Points The author is well known for his anti-bullying poem "To This Day" which has over 24 million views on YouTube. Inconvenient Skin has been nominated for the CODE Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature.
Kent Monkman life & work
Madill, Shirley, 1952- author. 
Paper Book
Kent Monkman's art has been described as "stupendous" (New York Times), "sure to alarm and educate" (The Observer), and beating "Western history painting at its own game" (The Globe and Mail). Subversive, bold, and groundbreaking, the work of this Cree artist has transformed contemporary Canadian...
Kâ-Pî-isi-kiskisiyânthe Way I Remember
Ratt, Solomon
Paper Book
A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family's traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the...
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island
Monkman, Kent
Paper Book
For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character - an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years in films and on countless...
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island
Monkman, Kent
Paper Book
For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character - an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years, and on countless canvases, it...
Moving the museum Indigenous + Canadian art at the AGO
Art Gallery of Ontario, publisher, host institution. 
Paper Book
Winner, Toronto Book Awards Moving the Museumdocuments the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO's Indigenous art collection. The volume reflects the nation-to-nation treaty relationship that is the foundation of...
Tears in the grass : a novel
Archer, Lynda A
Paper Book
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction -- Shortlisted For Elinor Greystone, the only way forward is back into the past. At ninety years of age, Elinor, a Saskatchewan Cree artist, inveterate roll-your-own smoker, and talker to...
To this day for the bullied and beautiful
Koyczan, Shane.L., 1976- author. 
Paper Book
An authentic rallying cry for anyone who has been affected by bullying. In February 2013, Shane Koyczan's passionate anti-bullying poem "To This Day" electrified the world. An animated video of the lyric narrative went viral, racking up over 12 million hits to date and inspiring an...

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