New Indigenous Collection

Updated December 3, 2024
Newfoundland & Labrador Public LibrariesNLPL Selections Team
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All the Little Monsters : How I Learned to Live with Anxiety
Robertson, David A.
With humour, warmth and heartbreaking honesty, award-winning author David A. Robertson explores the struggles and small victories of living with chronic anxiety and depression, and shares his hard-earned wisdom in the hope of making other people's mental health journeys a little less lonely ...
Behind Closed Doors: Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School
Jack, Agness
Paper Book
Key Selling Points Powerful first-person accounts Kamloops Residential School became cross-country headline news in May of 2021 with the discovery of the remains of 215 children found buried on the property With more awareness, there has been growing interest in...
The bone picker : native stories, alternate histories
Mihesuah, Devon A.
Paper Book
Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting...
By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories
Fraser, Crystal Gail
The first comprehensive study of Indian residential schools in the North In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Dinjii Zhuh (Gwich'in) concepts of individual and collective strength to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools, revealing the many...
By the fire we carry : the generations-long fight for justice on Native land
Nagle, Rebecca
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 * A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year * An NPR 2024 "Books We Loved" Pick * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024  * A Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of...
The Creator's Plan
Pellissier-Lush, Richard.
"My son, you do not need black hair, brown skin, or brown eyes like me to pray and practice your culture. You will learn the songs and the drumming in time. The Creator's plan was to give you everything that makes you who you are, and you are perfect to me just the way you are! Always remember...
Finding Otipemisiwak : the people who own themselves
Currie, Andrea
Paper Book
Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the Metis, meaning 'the people who own themselves.' Andrea Currie was born into a Metis family with a strong lineage of warriors, land protectors, writers, artists, and musicians - all of which was lost to her when she was adopted as an infant into a...
Marrow Thieves Book #3
Snow Day
Gloade-Raining Bird, Lindsay
Paper Book
A joyful, rhyming story in the vein of Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day, this debut children's picture book follows an Indigenous family as they enjoy the magic of a winter storm. All is quiet on the snow-laden street. Not a single soul makes a teeny-tiny peep. ...

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