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First Nations Communities Read List Adult and Young Adult
Aggie & Mudgy : the journey of two Kaska Dena children
—Proverbs, Wendy, author.
Based on the true story of the authors biological mother and aunt, this middle-grade novel traces the long and frightening journey of two Kaska Dena sisters as they are taken from their home to attend residential school....
All the quiet places
—Isaac, Brian Thomas, author.
It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, h...
Avenue of Champions
—Kerr, Conor.
EBook
2021
Daniel is a young Métis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns from the lived rea...
Avenue of champions
—Kerr, Conor, author.
Avenue of Champions is a collection of interlinked stories that investigates the inherent connection of Indigenous peoples to the land and the permanence of culture, language and ceremony as a form of resistance to displ...
Awâsis : kinky and dishevelled
—Halfe, Louise, 1953- author.
A gender-fluid trickster character leaps from Cree stories to inhabit this racous and rebellious new work by award-winning poet Louise Bernice Halfe.
Bagone-giizhig : aaniindi nitam Anishinaabeg gaa-ondaadiziwad = The hole in the sky : where the First People came from
—Moose, Leonard, author, illustrator.
"Aadizookaanan or Sacred Stories were passed down for thousands of years, filling the long winter nights with Anishinaabeg oral histories, philosophies, and ceremonies. Bagone-Giizhig is one of the many ancient stories t...
The barren grounds
—Robertson, David, 1977- author.
"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and s...
Call me Indian : from the trauma of residential school to becoming the NHL's first Treaty Indigenous player
—Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020, author.
"Trailblazer. Residential school survivor. First Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are true--but none of them tell the whole story. Fred Sasakamoose suffered abuse in a residential school for a deca...
Christi Belcourt
"This book is published in conjunction with the first retrospective of artist Christi Belcourt's work: "UPRISING: The Power of Mother Earth--Christi Belcourt--A Retrospective with Isaac Murdoch," curated by Nadia Kurd. T...
Creeland
—Hunt, Dallas, author.
Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography dec...
Epekwitk : Mi'kmaq poetry from Prince Edward Island
—Pellissier-Lush, Julie, 1970- author.
"Poetry by Mi'kmaq writer and activist."--From publisher.
Four faces of the moon
—Strong, Amanda, 1984- author, artist.
"On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim connection to ancestors, language, and the land--creating a path forward in this essential graphic novel. In the dreamwo...
Gather : Richard Van Camp on the joy of storytelling
—Van Camp, Richard, author.
"Stories are medicine. During a time of heightened isolation, this bestselling author shares what he knows about the power of storytelling--and offers some of his own favourite stories from Elders, friends, and family. G...
Go down Odawa way
—Lockhart, D. A., 1976- author.
Go Down Odawa Way is a poetry collection that explores the physical, historical, and cultural spaces that make up the southwestern traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy. This is the region currently inhabi...
The great bear
—Robertson, David, 1977- author.
"Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important ...
Hunting By Stars
—Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author.
EAudiobook
2021
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the capture...
Hunting By Stars
—Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author.
EBook
2021
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the capture...
Hunting by stars
—Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author.
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the capture...