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Nobody cries at bingo
By Dawn Dumont. 2011
The narrator, Dawn, invites the reader to witness first hand Dumont family life on the Okanese First Nation. Beyond the…
stereotypes and clichés of Rez dogs, drinking, and bingos, the story of a girl who loved to read begins to unfold. It is her hopes, dreams, and indomitable humour that lay bare the beauty and love within her family. Includes violence and strong language. 2011.Nirliit: A Novel
By Anita Anand, Juliana Léveillé-Trudel. 2018
A young woman from Montreal follows the geese to the Inuit North in this deeply-felt witnessing of contemporary Indigenous life,…
as shaped by decades of colonial rule and government neglect. Having worked in the North for years, Juliana Léveillé-Trudel offers a portrait of a people undaunted by institutionalized racism, but in many cases broken by domestic violence, corporate mining, and the corrupting presence of summer workers up from the South in search of big paycheques. Delivered across two searing monologues, Nirliit is a testament to a people's perseverance as much as it is an apology by those who inflicted those circumstances upon them. 2018. Uniform title: Nirliit.Night wings
By Joseph Bruchac. 2009
Paul, a thirteen-year-old Abenaki, realizes too late that his dreams about a winged monster pursuing him were a warning: Paul…
and his grandfather are abducted from their trailer and forced to lead a search for ancient treasure. Both fight to preserve their ancestors' secrets--and to survive. Grades 5-8. 2009.Night moves
By Richard Van Camp. 2015
As a window into the magic and medicine of the Northwest Territories, Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious…
and heartbreaking. A teenaged boy confesses to a vicious assault on a cross-dressing classmate; Lance tells the sensual story of becoming much closer to his wife's dear friend Juanita; while a reluctant giant catches up with gangsters Torchy and Sfen in a story with shades of supernatural and earthly menace. 2015.Napi's dance
By Alanda Greene. 2012
Alberta, mid-1800s. The perspectives of a Blackfoot woman of the Blood tribe and of a young Irish/English woman who comes…
west with her family reveal a time of great change, disruption and loss. It was a time also of resilience, renewal and determination. The novel gives a picture of a land and people irrevocably changed and an insight into that world from a feminine perspective. 2012.Never say die
By Will Hobbs. 2013
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in far northern…
Canada, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine. Grades 5-8. 2013.Murder on the red river
By Marcie R Rendon. 2017
Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was…
three. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live--northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at thirteen was working farms. She's tough as nails and makes her living driving truck. Playing pool on the side. Wheaton is big lawman type. Scandinavian stock, but darker skin than most. He wants her to take hold of her life. Get into Junior College. So there they are, staring at the dead Indian lying in the field. 2017.Morning star (Lone Star audio)
By Kerry Newcomb. 2005
As a brash youth, Joel Ryan joins the Confederate Army. But when he returns home to Kentucky, he finds himself…
a stranger there. Trying to start over, he ends up in Montana, where he saves Mourning Dove, a Cheyenne woman, from an evil kidnapper. He never dreams that rescuing her will bring him the greatest love - and make him a lethal enemy. Among the Cheyenne, Joel learns a new way of life, and after he elopes with Mourning Dove, his duties as husband and father bring him unexpected joy, too soon cut short by a madman's bloody wrath. Now, twelve years later, revenge is close at hand. 2005.Monkey beach
By Eden Robinson. 2000
The Haisla community on the north west coast of British Columbia is devastated when the pride of their village, young…
Jimmy Hill, disappears at sea in a boating accident. Jimmy's sister Lisamarie reflects on the effect his death has on their community and on their family. She also reflects on their family, their culture, and Jimmy's life. Some strong language. 2000.Mother earth, father sky
By Sue Harrison. 1990
Chronicles the migration of an ancient Native American tribe in Ice Age America. After a surprise attack kills everyone except…
Chagak and her young brother, they begin a journey in search of their grandfather that becomes a quest for survival and revenge. Bestseller 1990.Motorcycles & sweetgrass
By Drew Hayden Taylor. 2010
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens, until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a…
1953 Indian Chief motorcycle - and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve's chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger's intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - and local raccoons to drive the stranger from the Reserve. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.Midnight sweatlodge
By Waubgeshig Rice. 2011
A group of strangers and family gather together to partake of the ancient aboriginal ceremony of the sweatlodge. Each seeks…
healing from the ceremony, and each character gives us a glimpse into their lives. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. c2011.Medicine walk
By Richard Wagamese. 2014
Franklin Starlight is sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with his real father, Eldon. The…
rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but when he is called to visit his father, he answers it as a son's duty. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner. What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry of the B.C. Interior, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldon's end. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Evergreen Award. 2014.Medicine River
By Thomas King. 1990
A young Canadian Indian returns to his hometown outside the Blackfoot Reservation and recovers his lost heritage among a varied…
cast of characters, including and all-Indian basketball team, a marriage doctor, and a world traveler. 1990.Mandie and the Cherokee legend (Mandie book. #2.)
By Lois Gladys Leppard. 2000
Mandy is bewildered by the unhappy reaction of some of her Cherokee friends to her discovery of gold inside a…
cave and her Christian values are tested by a troublesome Cherokee cousin. Grades 4-7. 2000.Legacy
By Waubgeshig Rice. 2014
Winter 1989. University student Eva Gibson in downtown Toronto is homesick and anxious to finish her education and return home…
to serve her Anishinaabe community. Then tragedy strikes and it becomes the Gibson family's legacy. Back on the rez, Eva's brothers and sister struggle to cope with their losses and redefine "their legacy". Some turn to ceremony; some turn to vice. All the while, they contend with a creeping sentiment of revenge. 2014.Last child
By Michael Spooner. 2005
Caught between the worlds of the her Scottish father and her Native Mandan mother in what is now North Dakota,…
Rosalie fights to survive both the 1837 smallpox epidemic and the actions of a vengeful trader. Some descriptions of violence. 2006 Spur Awards Finalist. For junior high readers. 2005.LaRose: a novel
By Louise Erdrich. 2016
North Dakota, 1999. Landreaux Iron accidentally shoots and kills five-year-old Dusty Ravich, the son of his neighbours. The two families…
have always been close; Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's son LaRose. Horrified, Landreaux turns to tradition--prayer in an Ojibwe sweat lodge--for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of atonement, he and his wife will give LaRose to the grieving Ravich family. "Our son will be your son now," they say. 2016.I am not a number
By Kathy Kacer, Jenny Kay Dupuis. 2016
Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, a young First Nations girl who was sent to a…
residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Express Honour Book Award. Winner of the 2018 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. Winner of the 2018 Red Cedar Information Book Award. 2016.April Raintree
By Beatrice Mosionier. 1992
The powerful and moving life stories of two Métis sisters who suffer the breakdown of their family relations, and the…
injustices of the social services system. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. For junior high readers. C1992.