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Kokopelli's flute
By Will Hobbs. 1996
Kiss of the fur queen
By Tomson Highway. 1998
Abraham Okimasis' native family lives happily in northern Manitoba until his two sons, Champion and Ooneemeetoo, are taken from them…
and sent to a Catholic residential school. There their names are changed, their culture and language are forbidden, and they are abused by the priests who run the school. Once the boys graduate from the school and attempt to live peacefully in Winnipeg they are constantly confronted by racism, and by the fact that they are no longer accepted by their own people. Through it all the shape-shifting spirit of the Fur Queen watches over the brothers to ensure that they fulfill their destinies. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language, descriptions of sex. 1998.Kaya: an American girl (American girl)
By Janet Beeler Shaw. 2010
Kaya is an adventurous Nez Perce girl growing up before America became a country. When her courage is tested, Kaya…
draws strength from the traditions and legends her elders share. Kaya listens closely, because she dreams of one day becoming a leader for her people just like Swan Circling, the bold warrior woman who is her hero. Grades 2-4. 2010.Keeper'n me
By Richard Wagamese. 1994
When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed…
in a series of foster homes. By age 20 he had ended up in prison, where he got a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. Garnet returned to the reserve and was initiated into the ways of the Ojibway by Keeper, a friend of his grandfather, and last fount of history about his people's ways. Some strong language. 2006, c1994.Jonny Appleseed
By Joshua Whitehead. 2018
"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats…
to himself. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the "rez"--and his former life--to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages--and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Winner of Canada Reads 2021. 2018.Glass beads
By Dawn Dumont. 2017
These short stories interconnect the friendships of four First Nations people - Everett Kaiswatim, Nellie Gordon, Julie Papequash, and Nathan…
(Taz) Mosquito. They are among the first of their families to live off the reserve for most of their adult lives, and must adapt and evolve. In stories like “Stranger danger”, we watch how shy Julie, though supported by her roomies, is filled with apprehension as she goes on her first white-guy date, while years later in “Two years less a day” we witness her change as her worries and vulnerability are put to the real test when she is unjustly convicted in a violent melee and must serve some jail time. As the four friends experience family catastrophes, broken friendships, travel to Mexico, and the aftermath of 9/11, readers are intimately connected with each struggle, whether it is with racism, isolation, finding their cultural identity, or repairing the wounds of their upbringing. 2017.Into the heart of the country
By Pauline Holdstock. 2011
Eighteenth-century Canada. The Native women who lived at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Prince of Wales Fort, serving as companions to…
the European traders, had their survival bound to the fortunes of those men. Across more than two centuries, the mixed-blood woman Molly Norton, wife of the explorer Samuel Hearne, speaks to us from her dreams. As the story of her liaison with Hearne unfolds, we move toward its tragic consequences. 2011.Indian Horse
By Richard Wagamese. 2012
Saul Indian Horse is dying in a hospice, remembering the life he led as a northern Ojibway. For Saul, taken…
forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Winner of CODE's Burt Award for First Nations, Méris, and Inuit Literature. Bestseller. 2012.Inagehi
By Jack Cady. 1994
"Faith was the thunder, Hope was the wind, and Charity the bright robes of lightning that thunder wore." Thus opens…
the mystery of the seven-year-old murder of Harriette's father, thought an accident at the time. It's 1957 and her mother has just died with the secret of his death. Thirty-year-old Harriette returns to the North Carolina hills to face her Cherokee heritage and its mysticism, and to investigate. 1994.Incidents in the life of Markus Paul
By David Adams Richards. 2011
1985. Hector Penniac, a young Micmac, is murdered on his first day of work. Loner Roger Savage comes under suspicion…
of killing Hector, leading Amos Paul, the chief of Hector's band, to try and reduce tensions, and Joel Ginnish, a volatile Micmac, to bring his own justice to Roger Savage when the authorities refuse to. Twenty years later, RCMP officer Markus Paul - Amos's grandson - tries to piece together the clues surrounding Hector death. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. c2011Celia's song
By Lee Maracle. 2014
Drums of change: the story of Running Fawn (Women of the West. #12.)
By Janette Oke. 1996
A young Blackfoot girl comes of age in 19th century Alberta in this tortured love story. She is chosen along…
with the chief's son, Silver Fox, to attend a Catholic boarding school in Calgary, and runs up against loneliness and despair when Silver Fox shows more interest in white man's God than her. Sequel to "A gown of Spanish lace". 1996. (Women of the West ; 12)Coyote tales
By Thomas King. 2017
Two tales, set in a time when animals and human beings still talked to each other, display Thomas King's cheeky…
humour and master storytelling skills. Grades 3-6 and older readers. 2017. Coyote Sings to the Moon -- Coyote's New Suit.Birdie
By Tracey Lindberg. 2015
Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is…
on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only television shows available on CBC North) that come to her in her dreams. She is also driven by the desire to meet Pat Johns, who played Jesse on The Beachcombers. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2016. 2015.Grey eyes: A Novel
By Frank Christopher Busch. 2014
In a world without time walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. The Grey Eyes…
use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. With only one elderly Grey-Eye left in the village of the Nehiyawak, the birth of a new Grey-Eyed boy promises a renewed line of defence against their only foe: the menacing Red-Eyes. While the birth of the Grey-Eyed boy offers the clan much-needed protection, it also initiates a struggle for power that threatens to rip the clan apart, leaving them defenceless against their sworn enemy. The responsibility of restoring balance and harmony, the only way to keep the Nehiyawak safe, is thrust upon a boy's slender shoulders. What powers will he have, and can he protect the clan from the evil of the Red Eyes? 2014.Future home of the living god: a novel
By Louise Erdrich. 2017
The world as we know it is ending. As Cedar Hawk Songmaker goes back to her own biological beginnings, society…
around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. Bestseller. 2017.Hiawatha and the Peacemaker (Recorded Books new reader)
By Robbie Robertson. 2015
Hiawatha, a Mohawk, is plotting revenge for the murder of his wife and daughters by the evil Onondaga Chief, Tadodaho.…
Then he meets the Great Peacemaker, who enlists his help in bringing the nations together to share his vision of a new way of life marked by peace, love, and unity rather than war, hate, and fear. Includes historical notes. Grades K-3. 2015.Black apple: a novel
By Joan Crate. 2016
Torn from her home and delivered to St. Mark’s Residential School for Girls by government decree, young Rose Marie (Sinopaki)…
finds herself in an alien universe where nothing of her previous life is tolerated, not even her Blackfoot name. For she has entered into the world of the Sisters of Brotherly Love, an order of nuns dedicated to saving the Indigenous children from damnation. Life under the sharp eye of Mother Grace becomes an endless series of torments, and Rose Marie starts to see shapes in her dreams that warn her of unspoken dangers and mysteries that threaten to engulf her. 2016.Between earth and sky
By Amanda Skenandore. 2018
One morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and…
the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the "savage-taming" boarding school run by her father, but she barely recognizes the man Asku has become. Now Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyone--especially her lawyer husband, Stewart. 2018.He who dreams (Orca limelights)
By Melanie Florence. 2017
Juggling soccer, school, friends and family leaves John with little time for anything else. But one day at the local…
community center, following the sound of drums, he stumbles into an Indigenous dance class. Before he knows what's happening, John finds himself stumbling through beginner classes with a bunch of little girls, skipping soccer practice and letting his other responsibilities slide. When he attends a pow wow and witnesses a powerful performance, he realizes that he wants to be a dancer more than anything. But the nearest class for boys is at the Native Cultural Center in the city, and he still hasn't told his family or friends about his new passion. If he wants to dance, he will have to stop hiding. Between the mocking of his teammates and the hostility of the boys in his dance class, John must find a way to balance and embrace both the Irish and Cree sides of his heritage. For junior high readers. 2017.