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• The Red Canoe

  Johnson, Wayne, 1956-

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  Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suicide. He has just been served divorce papers by his wife Naomi, who is fed up with his savior complex and the danger it often attracts to their door.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deep House

  King, Thomas, 1943-

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  For the first time since the pandemic, Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace in small-town Chinook. Sure, his beloved cat is still missing and his relationship with Claire is more than uncertain, but at least he can relax in the comfort…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of the Deer

  Daniel, Danielle

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  In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ancestors in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family link to a girl murdered near Trois-Rivières in the early days of French…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Quiet Places

  Isaac, Brian Thomas

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  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, her friend Isabel, Isabel's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Five Little Indians

  Good, Michelle

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  Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• From the Ashes

  My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

  Thistle, Jesse,

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• Empire of Wild

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  A propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou--a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities

• Birdie

  a Novel

  Lindberg, Tracey

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  Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only television shows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Two-spirit Journey

  the Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

  Chacaby, Ma-Nee, 1950-

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  A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby's story is one of enduring and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heart Berries

  a Memoir

  Mailhot, Terese Marie,

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  Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Starlight

  An Unfinished Novel

  Wagamese, Richard,

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  The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge and then redemption on a farm run by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own.

• Covered With Night

  a Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

  Eustace, Nicole

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  An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Heart Is a Chainsaw

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. "Some girls just…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• N'in D'la Owey Innklan

  Mi'kmaq Sojourns in England

  Lawrence, Bonita

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  This is a historical novel, beginning in 1497 and taking us, in a series of vignettes, through five centuries of interconnections between the Mi'kmaq people of Atlantic Canada and London. Each character begins their story in different regions of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour

  Dumont, Dawn, 1978-

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  The hilarious story of an unlikely group of Indigenous dancers who find themselves thrown together on a performance tour of Europe in 1972. The Tour is all prepared. The Prairie Chicken dance troupe is all set for a fifteen-day trek through Europe,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Probably Ruby

  Bird-Wilson, Lisa

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  Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is placed in a foster home and adopted by Alice and Mel, a less-than-desirable couple who can't afford to complain too loudly about Ruby's Indigenous roots. But when her new parents' marriage falls apart, Ruby begins…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sufferance

  a Novel

  King, Thomas, 1943-

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  Jeremiah Camp, aka The Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that create opportunities and profits for the rich and powerful. Problem is, Camp has looked one too many times, has seen what he hadn't expected to see, has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book

  Hill, Gord

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