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• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

  Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation With Indigenous Peoples a Reality

  Joseph, Robert P. C., 1963-

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  Adult - An essential guide to understanding the Indian Act and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer

• Write It on Your Heart

  the Epic World of An Okanagan Storyteller

  Robinson, Harry, 1900-1990,

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  Adult - A celebration of the late Harry Robinson, one of the great storytellers of the Interior Salish people of North America.

• Heart Berries

  a Memoir

  Mailhot, Terese Marie,

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  Adult - Guileless and refreshingly honest, Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia.

• There There

  a Novel

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Adult - Orange's first novel is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.

• 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. With compassion and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Split Tooth

  Tagaq, 1975-

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  Adult - A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, bullying, the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. When she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun

  Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities

  Seesequasis, Paul,

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  Adult - Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun consists of approximately 80 archival black-and-white and colour photographs of Indigenous family life from 1925 to 1985.

• Black Water

  Family, Legacy and Blood Memory

  Robertson, David, 1977-

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  Adult - Robertson, the son of a Cree father and a white, settler mother, grew up with no knowledge or understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. Facing a story nearly erased by the designs of history, father and son journey together back to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jonny Appleseed

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  Adult - Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, becomes a cybersex worker. Whitehead's novel is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Marrow Thieves

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  Adult/Teen - In this futuristic dystopian novel for teens, the Indigenous people of North America are on the run in a fight for survival.

• Son of a Trickster

  Robinson, Eden,

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  Adult/Teen -Eden Robinson returns with a striking and precise coming-of-age novel, in which everyday teen existence meets Indigenous beliefs, family dynamics and cannibalistic river otters.

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

  Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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  Teen - Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

• This Place

  150 Years Retold

  Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri, 1965-

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  Teen - An anthology of stories from Canada’s 150 years told from an Indigenous perspective

• Elatsoe

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  Teen - Seventeen-year-old Elatsoe can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Girl Called Echo. Vol. 1, Pemmican Wars

  Vermette, Katherena, 1977-

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  Teen - Echo, a 13 year-old Metis girl, is struggling with loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family. One day everything changes when Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Search of April Raintree

  Mosionier, Beatrice, 1949-

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  Teen - Two young sisters are taken from their home and family, separated and put into different foster homes. One sister embraces her Métis identity, while the other sister tries to leave it behind. In the end, out of tragedy, comes an unexpected…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fire Song

  Jones, Adam Garnet,

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  Teen - How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves--his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Barren Grounds

  Robertson, David, 1977-

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  School Age - Two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg. They are disconnected from their culture and each other, and struggle to in- until they discover a portal that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Can Make This Promise

  Day, Christine, 1993-

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  School Age - When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sea in Winter

  Day, Christine, 1993-

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  School Age - After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blended family's midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up.