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Stolen from our embrace: the abduction of First Nations children and the restoration of aboriginal communities

By Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey. 1997

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionIndigenous peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio

Describes the treatment of aboriginal children in Canada who were taken to live in residential schools. The story is told…

using interviews and anecdotes shared by those who attended the schools. The current state of aboriginal affairs is also discussed. 1997.

Stolen continents: the new world through Indian eyes since 1492

By Ronald Wright. 1992

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Wright details the European conquest of the Maya, Inca, Aztec, Iroquois and Cherokee peoples. He describes the resistance by these civilizations to foreign occupation and their struggles to survive.

Starlight tour: the last, lonely night of Neil Stonechild

By Susanne Reber, Rob Renaud. 2005

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionIndigenous peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio

On a Saskatoon night in November 1990, seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared, to be found dead in a field, his body…

frozen, three days later. The police investigation was cursory, but Neil's mother Stella refused to give up, as did witness Jason Roy, who had seen Neil, beaten and bleeding, in the back of a Saskatoon police cruiser the night he disappeared. It was only in January 2000, when two more men were found frozen to death, that the truth about Neil Stonechild's fate began to emerge. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.

Shingwauk's vision: native residential schools in Canada

By J. R Miller. 1996

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Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio

A comprehensive study of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s.…

Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in cultural genocide. Miller explores all three players in the story: the government officials who authorized the schools, the missionaries who taught in them, and the students who attended them. Co-winner of the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 1996.

Raisin wine: a boyhood in a different Muskoka

By James Bartleman. 2007

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Canadian fictionIndigenous peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio

Recalls the boyhood years of Ontario's future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal…

oil-lamp lighting. As a half-breed kid, he was caught between two worlds. His Native mother's fight with depression flowed from that dilemma, while his father, a white, working class, guy who never had any money, made the best home brew in the village - and his specialty was raisin wine. 2007.

Finding my talk: how fourteen Canadian native women reclaimed their lives after residential school

By Agnes Grant. 2004

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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When residential schools opened in the 1830's, First Nations envisioned their children learning in nurturing environments, staffed with their own…

teachers, ministers and interpreters. Instead, students were taught by outsiders, regularly forced to renounce their cultures and languages, and some were subjected to abuse that left emotional scars for generations. Fourteen Aboriginal women who attended these schools reflect on their experiences, describing how they overcame tremendous obstacles to become strong and independent members of Aboriginal cultures. 2004.

Iroquois on fire: a voice from the Mohawk nation

By Douglas M George-Kanentiio. 2009

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio

In their homelands in what is now New York state, the Iroquois have assumed a prominent role in public debate…

as residents of the region seek ways to resolve multi-billion dollar land claims. The initial dispute over territorial title has grown to encompass gambling, treaties, taxation, and what it means to claim Native sovereignty. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.

In the rapids: navigating the future of First Nations

By Ovide Mercredi, Mary Ellen Turpel. 1993

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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The authors provide a view of broken treaty promises, the racist Indian Act, and the failure of Canada's justice and…

education systems. While examining many challenges confronting native people today, the authors also anticipate a brighter future. 1993.

Funny, you don't look like one: observations from a blue-eyed Ojibway

By Drew Hayden Taylor. 1996

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio

Half Ojibway and half Caucasian - and hoping to found a nation called Occasions, dubbing himself a Special Occasion for…

founding it - Drew Hayden Taylor presents his own take on Native affairs. Using humour to give a different perspective on contentious issues, he talks about Native life and culture, and relations with government and non-Natives. 1996.

For Joshua: an Ojibway father teaches his son

By Richard Wagamese. 2002

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio

Richard Wagamese had a life-long struggle for self-knowledge and self-respect. He turned to the Native doctrine of the Medicine Wheel,…

which teaches balance, introspection, sensitivity to others and, above all, responsibility to one's inner self. It is this learning process that he hoped to pass on to his son, Joshua. 2002.

Flint & feather: the life and times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake

By Charlotte Gray. 2002

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

An exploration of the many dimensions of Pauline Johnson's life. Complex and talented, she was a native rights advocate ahead…

of her time; a lyric poet who performed vaudevillian skits; a New Woman who wrote for The Mother's Magazine; and an incurable romantic who never married. 2002.

Citizens plus: aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state (Brenda and David McLean Canadian studies series)

By Alan Cairns. 2000

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

Cairns, through the study of the historical record, discusses the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other…

in Canada. He considers the differences between the assimilationist assumptions of the imperial era and the more recent attempts at nation-to-nation negotiations supported by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and contemplates whether either of these approaches can lead to an outcome that will satisfy both sides. 2000.

Spoken here: journeys among threatened languages

By Mark Abley. 2003

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Automated braille

An award-winning Canadian journalist documents the unprecedented extinction of the world's less-spoken languages. Drawing on his encounters with linguistic remnants…

from the arctic to aboriginal Australia, he illustrates threats to many endangered tongues. The report also speaks to the relationship between language and identity, and warns of globalization's consequences. 2003.

The kids book of the Far North (Kids Books Of ...ser.)

By Jane Drake, Ann Love. 2000

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

The Far North is a beautiful but fragile world populated by many different plants, animals and people. This book is…

about the Arctic region, which is shared by eight countries. Inside you'll find amazing facts and fascinating stories, as well as ecological alerts. Grades 3-6. 2000.

The long exile: A True Story Of Deception And Survival Amongst The Inuit Of The Canadian Arctic

By Melanie McGrath. 2006

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
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1953. A young and inexperienced Irish-Canadian policeman, Ross Gibson, was asked by the Canadian government to draw up a list…

of Inuit who were to be experimentally resettled in the uninhabited polar Arctic and left to fend as best they could. Among them was Joseph Flaherty, the son of Robert Flaherty who had shot the film "Nanook of the North" 30 years earlier. 2006.

The white roots of peace: the Iroquois book of life

By Paul A. W Wallace. 1993

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio

The story of how one man united the five warring Iroquois nations - Mohawks, Senecas, Oneidas, Cayugas and Onandagas -…

into a single confederacy over 500 years ago. Deganawidah, The Peacemaker, became the greatest of all spiritual leaders of the Iroquois. His work is preserved in the Confederacy's traditional constitution, and had a major impact in shaping the American Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Some descriptions of violence. 1994.

L'héritage spirituel des Indiens d'amérique

By Joseph Epes Brown. 1991

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio

L'auteur tente de définer la place des traditions indiennes par rapport aux grandes religions universelles, en s'appuyant sur des disciplines…

telles que l'anthropologie et l'histoire comparée des religions. Plus qu'une simple étude sur la spiritualité des Indiens, cet ouvrage nous introduit au coeur de celle-ci. 1991.

Legends of Vancouver

By E. Pauline Johnson. 1963

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Indigenous peoples, Indigenous peoples in Canada
Human-narrated audio
A collection of the customs and legends of the Squamish tribes of Vancouver, compiled by the renowned native Indian poet. First published in 1911.

Meurtres avec malveillance (GF ;v 107eUne enquête de DreadfulWater)

By Thomas King. 2022

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Canadian fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Police procedural fictionIndigenous peoples
Human-narrated audio

La vie n'est pas de tout repos pour Thumps DreadfulWater. Alors qu'il peine à accepter tant son diabète que le…

cancer de Claire, voilà que la productrice d'une populaire émission d'affaires criminelles, Nina Maslow, débarque à Chinook et insiste pour que Thumps l'aide à réactiver un vieux dossier

Au nord de nos vies: récits (Étoiles variables)

By Jean Désy. 2006

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionIndigenous peoples, Medicine
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Au nord de nos vies présente un tableau sans complaisance de la vie et de la mentalité des Nordiques. C'est…

un recueil à la fois simple et infiniment touchant. On y rencontre des enfants, des adolescents, des vieillards. On y parle de la maladie, des suicides, du désespoir. Et pourtant il se dégage de ces textes quelque chose qui ressemble au souffle de la vie. -- 4e de couv

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