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Series: Lessons from Mother EarthPaperback
Elaine McLeod9780888998323
$10.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 2 - 5
Apr 01, 2010
Tess has visited her grandmother many times without really being aware of the garden. But today they step outside the door and Tess learns that all of nature can be a garden. And if you take care of the plants that are growing, if you learn about them -- understanding when they flower, when they give fruit, and when to leave them alone -- you will always find something to nourish you. This gentle story demonstrates the First Nations' tradition of taking care of Mother Earth.
The northern lights shine, women gather to eat raw caribou meat and everyone could be family in this ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut. Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen collaborate on this story about what it’s like to grow up in an Inuit community in Nunavut. Every line about the hometown in this book will have readers thinking about what makes their own hometowns unique. With strong social studies curriculum connections, Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown introduces you... + Read More
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Series: AlegoHardcover
Ningeokuluk Teevee9780888999436
$17.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
Aug 01, 2009
An enchanting and utterly authentic introduction to the life of an Inuit child and her world. Written and illustrated by Ningeokuluk Teevee, one of the most interesting young artists in Cape Dorset, home to the great tradition of Inuit art, this is a beautifully simple story, written in Inuktitut and English, about a young Inuit girl who goes to the shore with her grandmother to collect clams for supper. Along the way she discovers tide pools brimming with life – a bright orange starfish, a creepy-crawly thing with many legs called an ugjunnaq,... + Read More
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Series: The Huron CarolHardcover
Ian Wallace9781554983940
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5
Oct 01, 2013
Renowned children's book illustrator Ian Wallace brings his masterful ability to paint landscape and his cultural sensitivity to The Huron Carol, a beautiful and unusual song with a rich history. In the early 1600s Father Jean de Brébeuf came to Canada from his native France as a Jesuit missionary. He settled among the Huron, or Ouendat, people in what is now Midland, Ontario. Despite his missionary zeal, Brébeuf was sensitive to the people with whom he lived. He learned their language and he wrote, in Huron, the original version of this famous... + Read More
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Series: Grandpa's GirlsHardcover
Nicola Campbell9781554980840
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 24, 2011
A finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize A young girl delights in a visit to her grandpa’s farm. She and her cousins run through the fields, explore the root cellar where the salmon and jars of fruit are stored, swing on a rope out the barn loft window, visit the Appaloosa in the corral and tease the neighbor’s pig. The visit is also an opportunity for this child to ask Grandpa what her grandmother,Yayah, was like, and explore the “secret room,”with its old wooden trunk of ribbons, medals and photos of Grandpa ... + Read More
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Series: Shi-shi-etkoHardcover
Nicola Campbell9780888996596
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Jul 03, 2005
Winner of the Anskohk Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year Award. Finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend residential school. She spends her last days at home treasuring the beauty of her world -- the dancing sunlight, the tall grass, each shiny rock, the tadpoles in the creek, her grandfather's paddle song. Her mother, father and grandmother, each in turn, sha... + Read More
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Series: Shin-chi's CanoeHardcover
Nicola Campbell9780888998576
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2008
Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi k... + Read More
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Series: Sometimes I Feel LikeSometimes I Feel Like a FoxNew editionPaperback
Danielle Daniel9781773061177
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Jul 15, 2017
Children’s love for animals and disguise come together in this award-winning introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals.In this introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals, young children explain why they identify with different creatures such as a deer, beaver or moose. Delightful illustrations show the children wearing masks representing their chosen animal, while the few lines of text on each page work as a series of simple poems throughout the book.In a brief author’s note, Danielle Daniel explains the importa... + Read More
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Series: Nôhkom seriesniwîcihâw / I HelpNew editionPaperback
Caitlin Dale Nicholson9781773061160
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Mar 01, 2018
“Textured acrylic paintings, done in rich earth tones...portray the sanctity of the natural environment...a sensitive, respectful portrayal of contemporary Native Americans.” — School Library JournalThis simple story in Cree and English explores a young child’s relationship to his grandmother, or nôkhom, as they go for a walk in the woods to pick rosehips. The young boy follows his grandmother, walking, listening, picking, praying and eating, just as she does. In doing so, he absorbs the rich cultural traditions and values of his Cree heritage... + Read More
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Series: Nôhkom seriesnipêhon / I WaitHardcover
Caitlin Dale Nicholson9781554989140
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 01, 2017
A quiet, gentle story about a family working together written in Cree and English. A young child, her grandmother and mother are going out to pick wild yarrow. As Grandmother gets ready, the child and her mom wait. Grandmother leads the way to the field of blossoms, where they can finally start to pick … only now they have to wait for Mom! The simple story, written in Cree and English and accompanied by rich acrylic illustrations, shows the patience, love and humor involved as three generations accommodate one another on a family outing. nipêho... + Read More
It’s the day of the first salmon ceremony, and P'ésk'a is excited to celebrate. His community, the Sts'ailes people, give thanks to the river and the salmon it brings by commemorating the first salmon of the season. Framed as an exploration of what life was like one thousand years ago, P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony describes the customs of the Sts'ailes people, an Indigenous group who have lived on what is now the Harrison River in British Columbia for the last 10,000 years. Includes an introductory letter from Chief William Charlie, an... + Read More
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Series: A Salmon for Simon2nd editionPaperback
Betty Waterton9780888992765
$7.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7
Apr 01, 1997
Simon has always longed to catch a salmon. But when his luck suddenly changes and an eagle accidentally drops one into a tidal pool, Simon is torn between sympathy for the fish and the desire to catch something of his own.All summer long, Simon, a young First Nations boy, has been desperate to catch a salmon. He goes fishing every day, but has no luck. Then one day a high-flying eagle drops a salmon into a clam hole right before his eyes, and Simon must decide whether to take it home or let it go.This simple story, with its evocative watercolor... + Read More
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Series: Ancient ThunderPaperback
Leo Yerxa9781554981274
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 0 - 5
Feb 01, 2012
Winner of the Governor General's Award A beautiful and visionary book, Ancient Thunder celebrates wild horses and the natural world of the prairies. Using an extraordinary technique, Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, makes paper look like leather, so that his illustrations seem to be painted on leather shirts. The art is accompanied by a rich song of praise for the wild horses that came to play such an important role in the lives of the First Peoples. Years in the making, the book is truly a work of art — one that reflects Yerxa's sense... + Read More
A beautifully illustrated, award-winning picture book from Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, now available in paperback.Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall takes us on a dreamlike voyage into nature at that secret moment when fall turns into winter. We find ourselves in a kind of paradise, which humans may be part of but which they have not despoiled. A father and son lead us through forests, down rivers, over lakes and ponds. Along the way we experience the primordial beauty of the physical world. This is nature as we all feel in our hea... + Read More
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Series: Very Last First TimeHardcover
Jan Andrews9780888990433
$19.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9
Oct 01, 1987
A classic story of an Inuit girl's first experience going alone under the ice to collect mussels. Eva's journey is a very special one. Today, she will walk on the bottom of the sea alone. She will go into the cave that is under the ice when the tide is out. She will search for mussels as her people have done for centuries. She will find herself in darkness. She will find too she has brought what she needs with her. She will come again into the light. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.... + Read More
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Series: nattiq and the Land of StatuesA Story from the ArcticHardcover
Barbara Landry9781554988914
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7
Mar 01, 2020
In this charming story that includes words in Inuktitut, a ringed seal returns to the Arctic with stories of discovery and friendship. A ringed seal, known in Inuktitut as ???? nattiq, has returned to his Arctic home after a long journey south. His friends — a polar bear, caribou, raven, walrus and narwhal — gather round to hear about his trip. “What did you see beyond our land?” shouts the polar bear. ???? nattiq describes the amazing sights he has seen — from crystal clear waters full of giant icebergs to the tundra in full summertime bloom ... + Read More
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Series: If You Want to Visit a Sea GardenHardcover
Kay Weisman9781554989706
$18.99JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8
Sep 01, 2020
Discover the wonder of ancient sea gardens on the Northwest Coast Sea gardens have been created by First Peoples on the Northwest coast for more than three thousand years. These gardens consist of stone reefs that are constructed at the lowest tide line, encouraging the growth of clams and other marine life on the gently sloped beach. This lyrical story follows a young child and an older family member who set out to visit a sea garden early one morning, as the lowest tides often occur at dawn. After anchoring their boat, they explore the beach,... + Read More
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Series: A Coyote Columbus StoryPaperback
Thomas King9780888998309
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8
Sep 01, 2007
A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from a Native point of view turns this tale on its ear! Coyote, the trickster, creates the world and all the creatures in it. She is able to control all events to her advantage until a funny-looking red-haired man named Columbus changes her plans. He is unimpressed by the wealth of moose, turtles and beavers in Coyote’s land. Instead he is interested in the human beings he can take to sell in Spain. Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus’s voyages. ... + Read More
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Series: A Coyote Solstice TaleHardcover
Thomas King9780888999290
$14.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8
Sep 01, 2009
Winner of the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards, Best Picture Book.Trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a festive solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the party-goers through the snowy woods to a shopping mall -- a place they have never seen before. Coyote gleefully shops with abandon, only to discover that fi lling your shopping cart with goodies is not quite the same thing as actually paying for them. The trickster is tricked and goes back to his cabin in t... + Read More
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Series: Coyote TalesHardcover
Thomas King9781554988334
$16.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9
Oct 01, 2017
Two tales, set in a time “when animals and human beings still talked to each other,” display Thomas King’s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early chapter book, these stories are perfect for newly independent readers. In Coyote Sings to the Moon, Old Woman and the animals sing to the moon each night. Coyote attempts to join them, but his voice is so terrible they beg him to stop. He is crushed and lashes out — who needs Moon anyway? Furious, Moon dives into a pond, plunging the world into darkne... + Read More
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Series: The Red SashHardcover
Jean E. Pendziwol9780888995896
$18.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 8
Aug 07, 2005
The Red Sash is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago. The Red Sash is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago. His father spends the long winter months as a guide, leading voyageurs into the northwest to trade with the Indigenous Peoples for furs. Now it is Rendezvous, when the voyageurs paddle back to Fort William with their packs of furs, and North West Company canoes come fro... + Read More
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Series: Arctic AdventuresHardcover
Raquel Rivera9780888997142
$18.95JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) to 8
Jun 01, 2007
The land, hunting, hunger, magic and extreme weather are themes that resonate for Inuit who live in the Far North. These stories, drawn from the lives of four Inuit artists, offer young readers a glimpse into this rich, remote culture, past and present. Accompanying each story are illustrations by Jirina Marton, who has spent time in the Arctic and whose deep appreciation for its subtle beauty shines through her art. In addition to the stories, there is a feature spread on each artist with a photograph, a brief biography and a reproduction of o... + Read More
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Series: Tuk and the WhalePaperback
Raquel Rivera9780888998910
$9.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 10
Apr 01, 2008
Told by a young Inuit boy, this story imagines what might have happened if the people of a Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers. This story is set on the eastern coast of Baffin Island in the early decades of the 1600s. Told from the point of view of a young Inuit boy, Tuk, it imagines what might have happened if the people of Tuk's Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers, blown far north from their usual whaling route. Both the Inuit hunters and the whalers prize the bowhead whale, but for very differen... + Read More
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Series: Idaa TrailHardcover
Wendy Stephenson9780888995766
$19.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10
Jun 01, 2005
Etseh, Etsi and their three grandchildren have just embarked on a month long canoe trip in the Northwest Territories -- from the town of Rae to Hottah Lake. They are following the Idaa trail, a trade route that the Dogrib people have traveled for hundreds of years. Etseh and Etsi traveled the Idaa trail when they were children and as they paddle north with their grandchildren they pass along their knowledge of special sites along the way and explain how their people survived in the old days -- building birch bark canoes, fishing with willow li... + Read More
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Series: As Long as the Rivers FlowPaperback
Larry Loyie9780888996961
$12.99JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 8
Sep 04, 2005
Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction From the mid-1800s to the late 1990s, the education of Indigenous children was taken on by various churches in government-sponsored residential schools. More than 150,000 children were forcibly taken from their families in order to erase their traditional languages and cultures. As Long as the Rivers Flow is the story of Larry Loyie’s last traditional summer before entering residential school. It is a time of adventure and learning from his Elders. He cares for an abandoned ba... + Read More
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Series: TecumsehHardcover
James Laxer9781554981236
$19.95JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12
Jun 01, 2012
Longlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award Two hundred years after his death, the Shawnee chief Tecumseh is still considered one of the greatest leaders of North America's First Peoples. This richly illustrated biography tells the story of his remarkable life, culminating in the War of 1812. Tecumseh, born in 1768, lived during turbulent times: the thirteen colonies revolted against British rule, becoming the United States in 1776, and settlers had begun to push westward, rapidly encroaching on the ... + Read More
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Series: My Name Is SeepeetzaPaperback
Shirley Sterling9780888991652
$10.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12
Nov 01, 1992
An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it. At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and ... + Read More
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Series: Looks Like DaylightVoices of Indigenous KidsPaperback
Deborah Ellis9781554981212
$14.99YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12
Aug 01, 2018
Author Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories. They come from all over the continent — from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaii to North Carolina. Their stories are sometimes heartbreaking; more often full of pride and hope. You’ll meet Tingo, who has spent most of his young life living in foster homes and motels, and is now thriving after becoming involved with a Native Friendship Center; Myleka and Tulane, young Navajo artists; Eagleson, who started drink... + Read More
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Series: George Johnson's WarPaperback
Maureen Garvie9780888994684
$12.95JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) to 12
May 01, 2002
George's cloistered life in New York changes as the War for American Independence looms and he must struggle with what it means to be half Mohawk. Young George Johnson lives in an extraordinary family in extraordinary times. His father is Sir William Johnson, one of the richest and most powerful men in colonial New York. His mother is Molly Brant, stepdaughter of a Mohawk chief and sister of Iroquois leader Joseph Brant. George spends his early years in a grand mansion called Johnson Hall, but his cloistered life changes as the War for American... + Read More
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Series: Good for NothingPaperback
Michel Noel9780888996169
$14.99YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 - 15
May 01, 2004
Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a good-for-nothing who, like all Indians, can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison and despair. The reserve, however, offers nothing to Nipishish. He remembers little of his late mother and father. In fact, he seems to know less about himself than the people at the band office. He must try to rediscover the o... + Read More
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Series: This Accident of Being LostSongs and StoriesPaperback
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson9781487001278
$19.95FICTION
Apr 08, 2017
A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically a... + Read More
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Series: CliffordA Memoir, A Fiction, A Fantasy, A Thought ExperimentPaperback
Harold R. Johnson9781487004101
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 28, 2018
From the bestselling author of Firewater comes a moving tribute to an older brother that traverses the thresholds of memoir, fiction, and fantasy and reimagines what could have been.When Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Indigenous community for his brother Clifford’s funeral, the first thing his eyes fall on is a chair. It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of recollections of his silent, powerful Swedish father; his formidable Cree mother; and his... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesThe Truth About StoriesPaperback
Thomas King9780887846960
$19.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 01, 2003
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stor... + Read More
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Series: The Outside CircleA Graphic NovelPaperback
Patti LaBoucane-Benson9781770899377
$21.99COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
May 02, 2015
Winner, CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit and Métis Literature In this important graphic novel, two brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.Pete, a young Indigenous man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict. One night, Pete and his mother’s boyfriend, Dennis, get into a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and Pete to jail. ... + Read More
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Series: Tecumseh and BrockThe War of 1812Hardcover
James Laxer9780887842610
$29.95HISTORY
Jun 02, 2012
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers. Bestselling author and scholar James Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of this decisive war, by bringing to life two major contests: the native peoples’ Endless War to establish nationhood and sovereignty on their traditiona... + Read More
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Series: Tecumseh and BrockThe War of 1812Paperback
James Laxer9781770893283
$19.95HISTORY
Jun 14, 2014
Now available in paperback, Tecumseh and Brock is a powerful and compelling new work on the War of 1812, from bestselling author, historian, political scientist, and scholar James Laxer.At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers. James Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of thi... + Read More
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Series: Seven Fallen FeathersRacism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern CityPaperback
Tanya Talaga9781487002268
$22.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 30, 2017
The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga.Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrati... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesAll Our RelationsFinding the Path ForwardPaperback
Tanya Talaga9781487005733
$24.99SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 16, 2018
Tanya Talaga, the bestselling author of Seven Fallen Feathers, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples — youth suicide.“Talaga’s research is meticulous and her journalistic style is crisp and uncompromising. She brings each story to life, skillfully weaving the stories of the youths’ lives, deaths, and families together with sharp analysis… The book is heartbreaking and infuriating, both an important testament to the need for change and a call to action.” — Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*“Talaga has c... + Read More
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Series: The BreakPaperback
Katherena Vermette9781487001117
$23.99FICTION
Sep 17, 2016
Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award, The Break is a stunning and heartbreaking debut novel about a multigenerational Métis–Anishnaabe family dealing with the fallout of a shocking crime in Winnipeg’s North End.When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.In... + Read More
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Series: river womanPaperback
Katherena Vermette9781487003463
$19.95POETRY
Sep 25, 2018
Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second collection, river woman, explores her relationship to nature — its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.Award-winning Métis poet and novelist Katherena Vermette’s second book of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as decolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair in times of trauma, and trauma is understood to exist within all times. The poems are grounded in what fe... + Read More
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Series: NDN Coping MechanismsNotes from the FieldPaperback
Billy-Ray Belcourt9781487005771
$19.99POETRY
Sep 03, 2019
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field is a provocative, powerful, and genre-bending new work that uses the modes of accusation and interrogation. He aims an anthropological eye at the realities of everyday life to show how they house the violence that continues to reverberate from the long twentieth century. In a genre-bending constellation of poetry, photography, redaction, and poetics, Belcourt ultimately argues that if signifiers of... + Read More
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Series: tawâwProgressive Indigenous CuisineHardcover
Shane M. Chartrand9781487005122
$34.95COOKING
Oct 01, 2019
tawâw [pronounced ta-WOW]: Come in, you’re welcome, there’s room. Acclaimed chef Shane M. Chartrand’s debut cookbook explores the reawakening of Indigenous cuisine and what it means to cook, eat, and share food in our homes and communities. Born to Cree parents and raised by a Métis father and Mi’kmaw-Irish mother, Shane M. Chartrand has spent the past ten years learning about his history, visiting with other First Nations peoples, gathering and sharing knowledge and stories, and creating dishes that combine his interests and express his person... + Read More
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Series: NoopimingThe Cure for White LadiesPaperback
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson9781487007645
$22.95FICTION
Sep 01, 2020
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator’s will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents thei... + Read More
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Series: Tireless RunnersA Family History of Indigenous CanadaPaperback
Robert Jago9781487006419
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 01, 2025
For readers of Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian and Chelsea Vowel’s Indigenous Writes, Tireless Runners tells the history of colonization from pre-contact to the present day through the multi-generational story of one Indigenous family.Tireless Runners is the multi-generational story of the Sacquilty family, part of the Kwantlen First Nation in southwestern British Columbia. Prior to first contact in the 1800s, the Sacquilty were a wealthy family living in a region rich from fishing and trade. With the arrival of the Hudson’s Bay Company, ... + Read More
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