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Soapstone Signs (Orca Echoes)
By Jeff Pinkney, Darlene Gait. 2014
One spring, a nine-year-old Cree boy is visited by a master soapstone carver named Lindy, who gives him four pieces…
of soapstone. The primary secret to carving, the boy learns, is recognizing that each piece of soapstone already holds its true form inside. Lindy teaches the boy to listen to the soapstone and look to the world around him for signs as to what to carve. As the seasons change, the young boy's experiences lend him opportunities to develop his carving skills and become attuned to the signs around him. He eagerly awaits the following spring, which will bring Lindy's return and a chance to show off his carvings.The last Beothuk
By Gary Collins. 2017
Inspired by true events. Long after Demasduit's skull has been stolen from her grave, and years after Shanawdithit has died,…
one Beothuk and his family survive. Bursting out of the pages of Newfoundland history appears Kop, the last true Beothuk. When all the other members of his tribe are exterminated by the Europeans, Kop seeks revenge against the Unwanted Ones. Hidden among the Bear Clan of the Mi'kmaq, the Beothuk strikes back. Follow Kop on his trail of defiance against the European marauders upon his Island. See what becomes of a man who has nothing to lose or live for. Stay with him on a hundred trails and sit with him across the smoke of a hundred campfires. You will not only weep for the last Beothuk--you will cheer him on as he pushes back against the Unwanted Ones. 2017.Ligne brisée: roman
By Katherena Vermette. 2017
Lorsque qu'une jeune Métisse est victime d'une violente agression, les contrecoups se font sentir dans toute la communauté du quartier…
North End de Winnipeg. Policiers chargés de l'enquête, famille, amis et connaissances voient leurs certitudes ébranlées à mesure que se précise le fil des évènements. Entre les femmes qui se relaient au chevet de l'adolescente et celles qui errent dans l'ombre, au dehors, des liens puissants se dessinent, esquissant le portrait d'une identité morcelée. Les voix de chacune prennent de l'ampleur, jusqu'à ce que la ligne brisée de leurs destins en vienne à former un arbre généalogique aux racines profondément ancrées dans le territoire manitobain. 2017.Moon of the crusted snow: a novel
By Waubgeshig Rice. 2018
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as…
the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Bestseller. 2018.On l'a trouvé ti-cul dans un terrier de loup. D'après la légende, en tout cas. Ses nouveaux parents humains l'ont…
appelé Tommy. À l'école, les enfants étaient méchants avec lui. Il s'est mis à ressentir l'appel de la forêt. Mon frère et moi, on l'aimait bien, Tommy, même s'il grognait parfois et courait comme une bête sauvage. On lui a dit qu'on connaissait quelqu'un qui saurait si sa vraie place était parmi nous ou parmi les loups. C'est comme ça que Tommy a rencontré Bill Bilodeau. Années 2-4. 2015.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.Starlight
By Richard Wagamese. 2018
Franklin Starlight had long settled into a quiet and predictable life working his remote farm. But his contemplative existence is…
turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Emmy, a woman who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a harrowing life of violence. After Emmy has a run-in with the law, Starlight agrees to take in her and her daughter to help them get back on their feet. Over time, he introduces them to the land and patiently teaches them the skills that have allowed him not only to survive but to find communion with the world, and, gradually, this accidental family changes Starlight and Emmy in ways they never imagined. But Emmy's abusive ex isn't content to just let her go. He wants revenge and is hunting her down. "Starlight" was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese's death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. Bestseller. 2018.Fire song
By Adam Garnet Jones. 2018
How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from…
the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves--his friend, David. Things go from bad to worse as Shane's dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world. Worst of all, he and David have to hide their relationship from everyone. Shane feels that his only chance of a better life is moving to Toronto, but David refuses to join him. When yet another tragedy strikes, the two boys have to make difficult choices about their future together. With deep insight into the life of Indigenous people on the reserve, this book masterfully portrays how a community looks to the past for guidance and comfort while fearing a future of poverty and shame. For senior high readers. Winner of the 2018 Honour Book Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Young Adult Literature. 2018. Uniform title: Fire song (Motion picture)Taapoategl & Pallet: a Mi'kmaq journey of loss & survival
By Peter J Clair. 2017
This novel tells the story of two Mi'kmaq individuals, two centuries apart. A girl named Taapoategl shows incredible faithfulness to…
culture and family in the most difficult of circumstances during the mid-18th century colonization by European settlers. A boy, Pallet, in the mid-20th century, embarks on a five-year wilderness quest for personal and cultural identity during which he enters an altered reality and encounters the storytelling foundation of his world. The stories of Taapoategl and Pallet converge in a dramatic and unforgettable way. 2017.Mémoire d'Inuksuk: [récits]
By Dorothée Banville-Cormier. 2002
" Les quatre récits de ce recueil nous transportent dans des villages du Nunavik où vie quotidienne et légendes s'entremêlent,…
dévoilant un monde déchiré entre la culture des ancêtres et l'attrait de la vie moderne. Depuis l'arrivée de l'homme blanc, on y a troqué les chiens de traîneau contre des motoneiges. L'alcool et la drogue font maintenant partie du paysage avec leur triste cortège de drames fami-liaux. Mais l'inuksuk, cet homme de pierre qui do-mine fièrement la toundra, continue de rappeler à tous les exploits des valeureux chasseurs inuits d'autrefois. Porteur d'espoir, il persiste à baliser la route pour les siens. " -- 4e de couv. 2002.Split tooth
By Tanya Tagaq. 2018
A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom,…
and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this. Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love remains. Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget. 2018.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.Those who run in the sky
By Kelly Ward, Neil Christopher, Aviaq Johnston. 2017
After a strange and violent blizzard leaves young shaman-in-training Pitu stranded on the sea ice--without his dog team or any…
weapons to defend himself--he soon realizes that he is no longer in the word that he once knew. The storm has carried him into the world of the spirits, a world populated by terrifying creatures. As he tries to find his way back home, Pitu is plagued by black wolves constantly stalking him, water-dwelling creatures that want to snatch him and pull him into the frigid ocean through an ice crack, as well as beings less frightening, but equally as incredible, such as a lone giant who can carry Pitu in the palm of her hand and keeps caribou and polar bears as pets. After stumbling upon a fellow shaman who has been trapped in the spirit world for many years, Pitu must master all of his shamanic powers to make his way back to the world of the living, to his family and to the girl that he loves. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.Blackflies (Robert Munsch Ser.)
By Robert N Munsch, Jay Odjick. 2017
One day Helen wakes up and it's SPRING! The snow has melted and the sun is shining. But Helen knows…
that the blackflies will be coming out soon. So she does what any smart kid would do: she sends her little sister outdoors to check! When the blackflies and mosquitoes carry her away, Helen tells her dad, who rushes outside and is carried away himself. Now Helen needs to rescue BOTH of them, along with a wolf and a very clever bear. Grades K-3. 2017.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.Strangers (The reckoner #1.)
By David A. Robertson. 2017
When Cole Harper returns to Wounded Sky First Nation, he finds his community in chaos: a series of murders, a…
mysterious illness ravaging the population and reemerging questions about Cole's role in the tragedy that drove him away ten years ago. With the aid of an unhelpful spirit, a disfigured ghost, and his two oldest friends, Cole tries to figure out his purpose, and unravel the mysteries he left behind a decade ago. Will he find the answers in time to save his community? For senior high readers. Winner of the 2018 Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction. 2017.Cheval Indien: roman
By Richard Wagamese, Paul Gagné, Lori Saint-Martin. 2017
Enfermé dans un centre de désintoxication, Saul Cheval Indien touche le fond et il semble qu'il n'y ait plus qu'une…
seule issue à son existence. Plongé en pleine introspection, cet Ojibwé, d'origine Anishinabeg du Nord ontarien, se remémore à la fois les horreurs vécues dans les pensionnats autochtones et sa passion pour le hockey, sport dans lequel il excelle. Saul, confronté aux dures réalités du Canada des années 1960-1970, a été victime de racisme et a subi les effets dévastateurs de l'aliénation et du déracinement culturels qui ont frappé plusieurs communautés des Premières Nations. Avec empathie et perspicacité, Richard Wagamese brosse le portrait d'un homme broyé par son destin et, plus largement, d'une génération d'autochtones victimes de leur époque et du déclin de leur culture. 2017. Titre uniforme: Indian horse.Sanaaq: an Inuit novel (Contemporary studies on the north ; #4)
By Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Bernard Saladin D'Anglure, Peter Frost. 2014
An Inuit family negotiates the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in…
the mid-nineteenth century. 48 episodes recount the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in northern Quebec. Here they live their lives hunting seal, repairing their kayak, and gathering mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Marriages are made and unmade, children are born and named, violence appears in the form of a fearful husband or a hungry polar bear. The spirit world is alive and relations with non-humans are never taken lightly. And under it all, the growing intrusion of the qallunaat and the battle for souls between the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to forever change the way of life of Sanaaq and her young family. 2014. Uniform title: Sanaaq.Manikanetish: Petite Marguerite (Roman)
By Naomi Fontaine. 2017
Une enseignante de français en poste sur une réserve innue de la Côte-Nord raconte la vie de ses élèves qui…
cherchent à se prendre en main. Elle tentera tout pour les sortir de la détresse, même se lancer en théâtre avec eux. Dans ces voix, regards et paysages, se détachent la lutte et l'espoir. 2017.Song of Batoche
By Maia Caron. 2017
A historical novel about the Riel insurrection of 1885, largely from the point of view of the Métis women. It…
offers an interesting account of the lives of the Métis women as they move to support their husbands in the battle with Middleton. This includes Marguerite, Riel's wife, and Madeleine, Dumont's wife. There is also a good portrayal of Louis Riel and his struggle to create a homeland for the Métis on the South Saskatchewan and also to create a new Catholic religion, and an interesting account of Dumont as he struggles to stay loyal to Riel as he begins to realize what Riel's new religious views mean. 2017.