1.
Series:
Lessons from Mother Earth
Paperback
Elaine McLeod
9780888998323
$9.95
JUVENILE 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.
2.
Series:
Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown
Bilingual edition
Hardcover
Angnakuluk Friesen
9781554988839
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Sep 01, 2017
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 M...
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Series:
Alego
Hardcover
Ningeokuluk Teevee
9780888999436
$17.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Aug 01, 2009
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, a hornshaped sea snail and a sculpin. This is an enchanting and utterly authentic introductio...
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Series:
The Huron Carol
Hardcover
Ian Wallace
9781554983940
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (CAN) from K
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...
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Series:
P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony
Hardcover
Scot Ritchie
9781554987184
$18.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 01, 2015
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 the Harrison River in British Columbia for the last 10,000 years. Includes an introductory letter from Chief William Charlie, an illustrated ...
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Series:
Grandpa's Girls
Hardcover
Nicola Campbell
9781554980840
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from P - 2
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 ...
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Series:
A Salmon for Simon
New edition
Paperback
Betty Waterton
9780888992765
$7.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Apr 01, 1997
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award Simon discovers that catching a salmon is more difficult than it looks. A simple, touching and multi-award-winning story with evocative watercolor illustrations.
8.
Series:
A Salmon for Simon
Hardcover
Betty Waterton
9781554983926
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 6
Oct 01, 2013
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...
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Series:
Shi-shi-etko
Hardcover
Nicola Campbell
9780888996596
$18.95
JUVENILE 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...
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Series:
Shin-chi's Canoe
Hardcover
Nicola Campbell
9780888998576
$18.95
JUVENILE 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...
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Series:
Ancient Thunder
Paperback
Leo Yerxa
9781554981274
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) to K
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...
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Series:
niwîcihâw / I Help
New edition
Paperback
Caitlin Nicholson
9781773061160
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Mar 01, 2018
This 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.Caitlin Dale Nicholson’s acrylic-on-canvas illustrations portray the close relationship between the boy and his grandmother and the natural beauty of the bush. Her text has been translated into Cree ...
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Series:
Niwechihaw / I Help
Bilingual edition
Hardcover
Caitlin Nicholson
9780888998125
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 2 - 5
Feb 01, 2008
This simple story in Cree and English explores a young child's relationship to his kuhkom, his grandmother, as they go for a walk in the bush to pick rosehips. The young boy follows his grandmother, walking, listening, picking, praying, eating, just as she does. In doing so, he absorbs the rich cultural traditions and values of his Cree heritage.
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Series:
nipêhon / I Wait
Hardcover
Caitlin Nicholson
9781554989140
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 01, 2017
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. nipêhon / ????? / I Wait was translated by Leona Morin-Neilson, who was the inspiration f...
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Series:
Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox
New edition
Paperback
Danielle Daniel
9781773061177
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Jul 15, 2017
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 importance of totem animals in Anishinaabe culture and how they can also act as animal guides for young children seeking to understand themselv...
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Series:
Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
Paperback
Leo Yerxa
9781554981243
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 8
Sep 15, 2012
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...
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Series:
The Red Sash
Hardcover
Jean E. Pendziwol
9780888995896
$18.95
JUVENILE 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. His father spends the long winter months as a guide, leading voyageurs into the northwest to trade with native people 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 from Montreal bringing supplies for the next season. It is a time of feasting and dancing and of voyageurs trading stories around the campfire. With pr...
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Series:
Very Last First Time
Hardcover
Jan Andrews
9780888990433
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 9
Oct 01, 1987
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.
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Series:
Coyote Tales
Hardcover
Thomas King
9781554988334
$16.95
JUVENILE 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, Coyote is at first the cause of misfortune. In those days, when the moon was much brighter and closer to the earth, Old Woman and the animals would sing to her each night. Coyote attempts to join them, but his voice is so terrible they beg him to stop. H...
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Series:
A Coyote Columbus Story
Paperback
Thomas King
9780888998309
$9.95
JUVENILE 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....
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Series:
A Coyote Solstice Tale
Hardcover
Thomas King
9780888999290
$14.95
JUVENILE 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...
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Series:
As Long as the Rivers Flow
Paperback
Larry Loyie
9780888996961
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) to 3
Sep 04, 2005
Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction In the 1800s, the education of First Nations children was taken on by various churches, in government-sponsored residential schools. 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 summer before entering residential school. It is a time of learning and adventure. He cares for an abandoned baby owl and watches his grandmother make winter moccasins. He helps ...
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Series:
Arctic Adventures
Hardcover
Raquel Rivera
9780888997142
$18.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Grade (US) to 3
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...
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Series:
Tuk and the Whale
Paperback
Raquel Rivera
9780888998910
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 10
Apr 01, 2008
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 different reasons. Together, they set out on a hunt, though they are all on new and uncertain ground. Scrupulously researched, this beautifully told story wil...
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Series:
Tecumseh
Hardcover
James Laxer
9781554981236
$19.95
JUVENILE 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 ...
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Series:
My Name is Seepeetza
Paperback
Shirley Sterling
9780888991652
$10.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Nov 01, 1992
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. An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.
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Series:
George Johnson's War
Paperback
Maureen Garvie
9780888994684
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) to 7
May 01, 2002
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 Independence looms. As the rebel forces gradually take over the valley, George and his family are forced to flee their home and seek refuge with M...
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Series:
Looks Like Daylight
Hardcover
Deborah Ellis
9781554981205
$15.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Grade (US) from 7
Sep 30, 2013
After her critically acclaimed books of interviews with Afghan, Iraqi, Israeli and Palestinian children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention closer to home. For two years she traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut — some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope. You’ll meet Tingo, who has sp...
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Series:
Good for Nothing
Paperback
Michel Noel
9780888996169
$14.95
YOUNG 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...
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Series:
Bone Dance
Paperback
Martha Brooks
9780888993366
$8.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Grade (US) to 7
Apr 01, 1998
Alexandra's beloved grandfather was fond of saying, Life is full of surprises, and sometimes the good and the bad get all bunched up together. However, he could not have prepared her for the death of her father, a man she never knew, and his legacy -- a cabin on prairie land formerly owned by the LaFreniere family. Lonny LaFreniere's stepfather is the kindest man Lonny has ever known. But Lonny, tormented by guilty memories and visions he can't shake, rejects the land Pop always wanted to pass on to him. How could he have known it would end up ...
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Series: CBC Massey Lectures
The Truth About Stories
Paperback
Thomas King
9780887846960
$19.95
SOCIAL 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...
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Series:
Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812
Hardcover
James Laxer
9780887842610
$29.95
HISTORY
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...
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Series:
Tecumseh and Brock
The War of 1812
Paperback
James Laxer
9781770893283
$19.95
HISTORY
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...
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Series:
The Outside Circle
A Graphic Novel
Paperback
Patti LaBoucane-Benson
9781770899377
$19.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
May 02, 2015
Winner, CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for First Nation, Inuit and Métis Literature In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal 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 Aboriginal 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 Pet...
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Series:
The Break
Paperback
Katherena Vermette
9781487001117
$22.95
FICTION
Sep 17, 2016
2017 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Literature Finalist Winner, Amazon.ca First Novel Award Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Winner, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award Winner, McNally Robinson Book of the Year A Canada Reads 2017 finalist National Bestseller 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist 2016 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalist National Post 99 Best Books of the Year CBC Best Canadian Debut Novels 2016 Globe and Mail Best 100 Books of 2016 Quill & Quire Book of the Year Kobo Best Books of the...
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Series:
Seven Fallen Feathers
Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Paperback
Tanya Talaga
9781487002268
$22.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 30, 2017
Winner, 2018 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingWinner, First Nation Communities Read Indigenous Literature AwardFinalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for NonfictionFinalist, 2017 Speaker’s Book AwardFinalist, 2018 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-FictionA Globe And Mail Top 100 BookA National Post 99 Best Book Of The YearIn 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations w...
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Series:
This Accident of Being Lost
Songs and Stories
Paperback
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
9781487001278
$19.95
FICTION
Apr 08, 2017
2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize FinalistThis 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 acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization. ...
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