New Indigenous Collection

Updated May 28, 2026
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Active Women : Indigenous Women's Social and Political Work in Kanata's West
Active Women uncovers the widespread, collaborative, adaptive, and transformative activism of Indigenous women in Kanata's West from the 1930s to the 1980s. It shows how Indigenous women responded to social injustices with political action rooted in community. This book emphasizes...
The buffalo hunter hunter
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
" A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor...
The Cree word for love : s akihitowin
Lindberg, Tracey
Shortlisted for the 2026 Indigenous Voices Awards | Shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize at the 2026 BC and Yukon Book Prizes | Shortlisted for 2025 the Danuta Gleed Literary Award Bestselling author of Birdie, Tracey Lindberg, and renowned artist George Littlechild join...
Divided Power : How Federalism Undermines Reconciliation
Paper Book
Reconciliation, as set out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is a process of understanding the Canadian state's genocide against Indigenous Peoples and creating a new relationship between Indigenous Peoples and settlers based on mutual respect and dignity. Given the racism and paternalism...
Edible and Medicinal Arctic Plants : An Inuit Elder's Perspective
Paper Book
As a little girl in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Aalasi learned from her mother how to identify and harvest plants. Later, a mother herself, and living in Niaqunnguuq (Apex), she continued the practice, living off the land and passing her knowledge on to the next generation. In this introductory guide...
Inuktitut Alianaittuq! Inuktitut Is Awesome! : Beginners Lessons Based on the Igloolik Dialect of Inuktitut
Paper Book
Inuktitut Alianaittuq! Inuktitut is Awesome! is a beginner's guide to learning Inuktitut. This book makes your learning journey intuitive by teaching Inuktitut language patterns. Through lessons that build pattern recognition and language intuition, you will internalize general Inuktitut...
It bears repeating
Tagaq
Paper Book
Beginning with 1 proud polar bear standing tall and ending with 10 bears waving goodbye, this delightful counting book shows polar bears in all their forms: slippery and fast, crafty and cool, hungry and proud. Tanya has created a story meant to be read aloud, incorporating simple Inuktitut words...
Leave Our Bones Where They Lay
Johnston, Aviaq
Paper Book
Every solstice, Jupi--just as his father did before him, and his before him--must make a nearly impossible pilgrimage to light an oil lamp at the base of a remote cliff. There he must wait for Kipik, an ancient being who has bound Jupi's family to a mammoth task: share a story every visit that...
Mama's Song
Buchholtz, Julie
Paper Book
A mother passes down the teachings of the Seven Grandfathers to her child in this loving story about living in harmony with nature and our ancestors. Mama gently sings to her child of mino-bimaadiziwin--of living in harmony with nature and following the teachings of the Seven Grandfathers....
A Minor Chorus: A Novel
Belcourt, Billy-Ray
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, CBC, ELLE CANADA, LITERARY HUB, NATIONAL POST, AND DAILY HIVE "An achingly gorgeous debut novel of Indigenous survival.... This...
Nibi's water song
Tenasco, Sunshine Quem
Paper Book
Nibi is determined to bring clean water to her community. Nibi is the Anishinabemowin word for water. In Nibi's Water Song, Nibi is an Indigenous girl on the search for clean water to drink. Though she is faced with repeated obstacles, Nibi's joyful and determined energy becomes a catalyst for...
Nish: Northern Lights
Picard, Isabelle
Paper Book
The second book in Isabelle Picard's bestselling coming-of-age series about Innu twins, Leon and Eloise. Leon and Eloise are 13-year-old twins from Matimekush, an Innu community in Northern Quebec. The entire Mckenzie family has moved to Wendake, near Quebec City. Leaving Matimekush,...
Nishga
Abel, Jordan
Paper Book
WINNER of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize at the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's...
On Wholeness : Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation
Christie-Peters, Quill.
Paper Book
A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation Through reflections on childbirth, parenting, creative practice, and expansive responsibility, Anishinaabe visual artist Quill Christie-Peters explores how reconnecting with the body can be an act of...
Origin
Cardozo, Nat
Paper Book
Portraits of Indigenous children and their communities from around the world in a stunning presentation emphasizing community and a connection to the land and the environment We are all one. We all inhabit the same planet, and we all have a common human origin. This is the...
Procession
Paper Book
procession: a line of people moving in the same direction; a formal ceremony or celebration, as in a wedding, a funeral, a religious parade. Bestselling novelist and Governor General's Award-winning poet katherena vermette's third collection presents a series of poems reaching into what it means...
Ravens Talking : Indigenous Feminist Legal Studies
While awareness of the sexual and gendered colonial violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people has grown, the field of Indigenous law and beyond has yet to fully engage with Indigenous feminisms, gender, and sexuality in a sustained way. Ravens Talking challenges this gap,...
Revered Roots : Ancestral Teachings and Wisdom of Wild, Edible, and Medicinal Plants
Paper Book
Revered Roots introduces the wisdom and uses of over 90 North American plants by an Indigenous Métisauthor and herbalist.
Song of the Stars : Starry Skies, Anishinaabe Stories, Scientific Insights, and More!
Horton, Robert Animikii.
Paper Book
Since the earliest days of human memory, countless generations have turned their eyes to the skies in wonder, drawing patterns, understanding the stars' connection to cycles and events, and carrying their stories and teachings forward to subsequent generations. The Song of the Stars...
To Ride a Rising Storm: The Second Book of Nampeshiweisit
Blackgoose, Moniquill
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . A young indigenous woman and her dragon fight for the independence of their homeland in this epic sequel to the bestselling and multi-award-winning To Shape a Dragon's Breath, "a remarkable novel that is bound to be a staple of fantasy shelves for years to come" (...
Warrior girl unearthed
Boulley, Angeline
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times bestseller! A #1 Indies Bestseller! Six Starred Reviews! #1 New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley takes us back to Sugar Island in this high-stakes thriller about the power of discovering your stolen...
We are dancing for you : native feminisms and the revitalization of women's coming-of-age ceremonies
Risling Baldy, Cutcha
Paper Book
?I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.? So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy?s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women?s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe?s Flower Dance had not been fully practiced...
You Were Made for This World : Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People
Sinclair, Stephanie.
Paper Book
Every young person deserves the chance to feel like they belong, that they are recognized, that they matter. In the spirit of A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader, You Were Made for This World brings together forty Indigenous writers, artists, activists, athletes, scholars and thinkers...

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