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• In My Own Moccasins

  a Memoir of Resilience

  Knott, Helen, 1987-

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  "My truth is all that I have. Truth is my offering," begins Knott's memoir of grappling with addiction, sexual assault, and her identity as an Indigenous woman. Writing with raw honesty and in prose that both lulls and jolts the reader, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Quiet Places

  a Novel

  Isaac, Brian Thomas,

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  All the Quiet Places is the story of what can happen when every adult in a person's life has been affected by colonialism; it tells of the acute separation from culture that can occur even at home in a loved familiar landscape. Its narrative power…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of the Deer

  Daniel, Danielle,

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  In this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family's ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers.

• From the Ashes

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

  Thistle, Jesse,

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  An eloquent exploration of what it means to live in a world surrounded by prejudice and racism and to be cast adrift, From the Ashes is, in the end, about how love and support can help one find happiness despite the odds.

• Birdie

  a Novel

  Lindberg, Tracey,

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  A darkly comic and moving novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mamaskatch

  a Cree Coming of Age

  McLeod, Darrel J.

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  This is not your ordinary coming-of-age story; it's a multilayered account of a boy growing into manhood questioning his own gender identity while also confronting racism and bullying. This poignant memoir presents a story about growing up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seven Fallen Feathers

  Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

  Talaga, Tanya

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  Talaga, a veteran investigative reporter for the Toronto Star, has crafted an urgent and unshakable portrait of the horrors faced by indigenous teens going to school in Thunder Bay, Ontario, far from their homes and families.

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  An Anishinaabe community in northern Ontario faces a sudden blackout and isolation during a harsh winter, forcing them to rediscover traditional ways of survival and resilience.

• The Round House

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sabrina & Corina

  Stories

  Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,

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  A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centered on Latinas of indigenous ancestry that shines a new light on the American West.

• Night of the Living Rez

  Talty, Morgan, 1991-

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  Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Horse

  a Novel

  Wagamese, Richard,

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  Saul Indian Horse is dying in a hospice, remembering the life he led as a northern Ojibway. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jonny Appleseed

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living.

• Punished

  a Novel

  Laestadius, Ann-Helén,

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  From the internationally bestselling author of the “extraordinary” (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen comes a harrowing story—inspired by true events—of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wenjack

  Boyden, Joseph, 1966-

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  An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering him a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Cree

  a Novel

  Johns, Jessica,

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  The story of Mackenzie, a Cree woman, who is plagued by supernatural nightmares after the death of her sister.