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Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better...
2) White horse
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English
Description
"White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
"Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the...
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Series
Siha Tooskin knows volume 3
Publisher
Highwater Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Siha Tooskin (Paul) experiences a bit of teasing (bullying) about his braid and his grandfather teaches him about how he can find strength in his hair through the Nakota tradition and rise above such petty taunts."--
Author
Series
Siha Tooskin knows volume 2
Publisher
Highwater Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Siha Tooskin (Paul) learns from his grandfather about the eagle and the importance of respecting it and its feathers, along with other creatures in nature."--
Author
Series
Mud Sawpole mysteries volume 1
Publisher
CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors, in this own-voices debut perfect for fans of Winter Counts.
No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her...
No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her...
9) IRL
Author
Publisher
Birds Llc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Composed as a long text message, this poem asks what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history.
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How We Go Home: Voices of Indigenous North America shares contemporary first-person stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land, rights, and life. Hear from: Jasilyn Charger, who kickstarted a movement of Water Protectors at Standing Rock, that roused the world; Gladys Radek, whose niece's disappearance led her to become a family advocate for Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls; Ervin Chartrand,...
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Series
Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 2
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
About: Book Two in the Mighty Muskrats Mystery series. The Mighty Muskrats have a new case to solve: to find the whereabouts of their grandpa's long-lost sister. Once in the bright lights of the big city, the cousins get distracted, face off with bullies, meet some heroes and unlikely teachers, and experience many of the difficulties First Nations kids can face in the city. The Muskrats' search for their missing auntie takes them all the way to the...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis's home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen--to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties--the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure...
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Language
English
Description
A story inspired by the Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou finds a woman reconnecting with her heritage when her missing husband reappears in the form of a charismatic preacher who does not recognize her.
Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year-- ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument. Still grieving and severely hungover, Joan hears Victor's unmistakable voice coming from inside...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
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English
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"The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insisting that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. Ned Blackhawk...
Publisher
BIG NDN Press and DelMonico Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey Gibson, a renowned artist of Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee descent, An Indigenous Present presents an increasingly visible and expanding field of Indigenous creative practice. It centers individual practices, while acknowledging shared histories, to...
19) VenCo: a novel
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An incredibly inventive, highly anticipated second adult novel--with witches, magic, and a road trip through America--from Cherie Dimaline, the critically acclaimed author of Empire of Wild"--
Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to...
Author
Series
Works volume 1
Publisher
Newberry Library
Pub. Date
1968
Language
English
Description
This rollicking adventure story launched Melville's literary career and became an instant classic. Neither straight autobiography nor pure fiction, "Typee" is based on three weeks Melville spent on the South Pacific's Marquesas Islands-both as an explorer and as the captive of a band of natives. The book features lush tropical landscapes, daring escapes, sea-borne adventure and (of course) encounters with cannibals. "Typee" was Melville's most famous...