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Yamǫǫzha Eyits'ǫ Wets'èkeè Tsà: Yamozha and his beaver wife (Yamozha And His Beaver Wife Ser.)
By Mary Siemens, Vital Thomas, Francis Zoe, Dianne Lafferty. 2007
In this legend, Yamozha forgets his promise to his wife and as a result she turns into a giant beaver.…
He follows her all over Denedeh but is unable to catch her. This story tells of how this great medicine man shaped the land in the Tlicho region and its surrounding areas into what it is today. 2007.Winter child
By Susan Ouriou, Christelle Morelli, Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau. 2017
A semi-autobiographical novel about a Métis woman tracing the life and death of her son, through a series of overlapping…
memories throughout her and her son's lives. 2017. Uniform title: Enfant hiverWindigo fire: a novel
By M. H Callway. 2014
Danny Bluestone, a young Native Canadian drifting through life, settles for a job at a children's camp in his Northern…
Ontario hometown of Red Dog Lake. Local entrepreneur, Meredith Easter, offers Danny some easy money: play the role of native scout for his wealthy hunting buddies. Danny suspects that Easter's roadside attraction, Santa's Fish Camp, is the front for the local grow-op, and probably more, but the money is his way out of Red Dog Lake. 2014.White Indian (Colonization of America series. #1.)
By Donald Clayton Porter. 1979
1800s. Ghonka, Great Sachem of the Seneca nation, captures a white infant, names him Renno, and raises him as his…
own. As a young warrior, Renno rescues sixteen-year-old English colonist Deborah Alwin from Huron abductors. Renno desires Deborah, but her fate is uncertain. Followed by "The Renegade". c1979Whisper in the dark
By Joseph Bruchac. 2005
Usually Maddy likes scary stories, but an ancient Narragansett legend about a razor-clawed monster who whispers to his victims before…
attacking them becomes all too real. Maddy is frightened when she receives strange phone calls and her dog is lacerated. Grades 5-8. 2005.Where Mary went (Where Mary Went Ser.)
By Lynne Sherry McLean. 2010
Moving back through three decades, from World War II to the Depression and years spent in the horrific residential Mohawk…
Institute, this is the story of Mary Fisher and the men in her life: her father, a proud and gentle man who loses his children through no fault of his own; her husband Gmiwan, a sensitive artist not made for the rigors of war; and Tom Dunsby, the mayor of Jackson, whose unrequited love for Mary knows no bounds. Companion novel to “Where Gmiwan Went”. Descriptions of sex and some storng language. c2010.Where the rivers meet
By Don Sawyer. 1988
Nancy Antoine seeks release from grief after the suicide of her close friend. She finds an inner strength which points…
the way to true values and recovery, not only for herself and her Native people, but for all people. For senior high and adult readers. 1988.When the Chenoo howls: native American tales of terror
By Joseph Bruchac, James Bruchac. 1998
Twelve horror stories spanning precolonial to modern times based on legends from the northeast woodland Native Americans. In some, the…
hero defeats a monster by overcoming fear. Others are cautionary stories teaching children to recognize bad behaviour and avoid places where accidents may occur. Grades 3-6. 1998. (Native American folk stories).War dances
By Sherman Alexie. 2009
As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling…
death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views--until he becomes the target of media distortion. 2009.Une brève histoire des Indiens au Canada: nouvelles
By Thomas King, Paul Gagné, Lori Saint-Martin. 2014
À Toronto, une volée d'Indiens en pleine migration se frappent contre les gratteciel de Bay Street et retombent sur le…
pavé, comme autant d'oiseaux assommés, pour le plus grand étonnement des hommes d'affaires de passage. Heureusement que deux employés de la ville, Bill et Rudy, sont là pour les étiqueter et les relâcher dans la nature, après les avoir soignés. Un bébé blanc arrivé par erreur par la poste est offert comme premier prix au bingo hebdomadaire dans une réserve indienne, même si la plupart des joueurs préféreraient remporter le deuxième prix, qui est une camionnette. 2014. Titre uniforme: Short history of Indians in Canada.Trail of lightning (The sixth world. #1.)
By Rebecca Roanhorse. 2018
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinaetah (formerly the Navajo…
reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinaetah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than anything she could imagine. Maggie reluctantly enlists the aid of Kai Arviso, an unconventional medicine man, and together they travel the rez, unraveling clues from ancient legends, trading favors with tricksters, and battling dark witchcraft in a patchwork world of deteriorating technology. As Maggie discovers the truth behind the killings, she will have to confront her past if she wants to survive. Welcome to the Sixth World. Followed by "Storm of locusts". 2018.Through black spruce
By Joseph Boyden. 2008
Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now in a coma; his niece Annie, returned from her journey, sits…
beside his bed. Their secrets are revealed - the tragic betrayal that cost Will his family, Annie's desperate search for her missing sister. Their stories are rife with heartbreak, fierce love, ancient blood feuds, mysterious disappearances, fires, plane crashes, murders - and the bonds that hold a family, and a people, together. Winner of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2008.There there: a novel
By Tommy Orange. 2018
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame…
in Oakland. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Black has come to find his true father. Thomas Frank has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions. Bestseller. 2018.The winter people
By Joseph Bruchac. 2003
14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British…
soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prisoner. Junior High. 2003.The shadows that rush past: a collection of frightening Inuit folktales
By Emily Fiegenschuh, Rachel A Qitsualik, Louise Flaherty, Neil Christopher, Larry MacDougall. 2011
Want to read some of the creepiest, scariest stories from Inuit mythology? These tales bring to life four creatures: the…
amautalik, akhla, nanurluk, and mahaha. Meet child-stealing ogresses; monsters that are half-man, half-grizzly bear; ice-covered polar bears ten times the size of normal bears; and a smiling creature that surprises unsuspecting campers and tickles them to death! Descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. c2011.The round house
By Louise Erdrich. 2012
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression…
after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. National Book Award. Bestseller. 2012.The redemption of Oscar Wolf
By James Bartleman. 2013
In the early 1930s, Oscar Wolf, a 13-year-old native from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve, sets fire to the…
business section of his village north of Toronto in a fit of misguided rage against white society, inadvertently killing his grandfather and a young maid. Tortured by guilt and fearful of divine retribution, Oscar sets out on a lifetime quest for redemption. 2013.The renegade (Colonization of America series. #2.)
By Donald Clayton Porter. 1980
1690. Conflict escalates between the French and English for control of the New World colonies. Twenty-two-year-old white Seneca warrior Renno…
travels to London as an ambassador to enlist King William III’s support. Renno forges an alliance at court with French Huguenot Adrienne Bartel. Sequel to "White Indian". Followed by "War chief". c1980.The Red Bird All-Indian traveling band (Sun tracks : an American Indian literary series ; #volume 77)
By Frances Washburn. 2014
July 4, 1969, the Pine Ridge Reservation. A raucous Fourth of July gig abruptly ends with the Red Bird band…
ducking out of the performance in a hilarious hail of beer bottles. By the end of the evening, community member Buffalo Ames is dead, presumed to be murdered, just outside the bar. Sissy Roberts, the band’s singer and the best female guitar picker on the rez, is reluctantly drawn into the ensuing investigation by an FBI agent who discovers Sissy’s knack for hearing other people’s secrets. Following Sissy as she unravels the mystery of both Buffalo Ames’s death and her own future, this is the story of Indian Country on the verge of historic change and a woman unwilling to let change pass her by. 2014.The miracle life of Edgar Mint
By Brady Udall. 2002
When Edgar Mint was seven years old, the mailman ran over his head. Edgar describes his recovery - learning to…
type because he could no longer write, attending a school for delinquents, working with the drug-dealing doctor who saved his life, and living with a dysfunctional Mormon family. Includes violence and strong language. 2002