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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)The gnawer of rocks
By Jim Nelson, Louise Flaherty. 2017
While everyone is busy preparing for the coming winter, two Inuit girls wander away from their camp, following a path…
of strange, beautiful stones. Each stone is lovelier than the last, and the trail leads them farther and farther away from camp. But what starts out as a peaceful afternoon on the tundra quickly turns dangerous when the girls find themselves trapped in the cave of Mangittatuarjuk--the Gnawer of Rocks! Based on a traditional Inuit story, this story introduces readers to a dark and twisted creature that haunts the Arctic landscape and preys on unsuspecting children. Descriptions of violence. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2017.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. Bestseller. 2018.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.Siuluk: the last tuniq
By Nadia Sammurtok, Rob Nix. 2018
Siuluk is a very strong man. He's so strong that people tell him he must be the last of the…
Tuniit, friendly giants who once lived in the North. Just like those giants, Siuluk is so strong that he can carry an entire walrus over his shoulder. But not everyone believes that Siuluk is strong. One day, when a group of men tease Siuluk about his size, he has to find a way to prove his strength once and for all--but how? Based on traditional stories from the Chesterfield Inlet area of the Kivalliq region of Nunavut. Grades K-3. 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.You hold me up
By Monique Gray Smith, Danielle Daniel. 2017
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.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 hiverVoices on the Bay
By Ginny Russell. 1993
Winner of the Canadian Children's Book Centre Choice: Best Books for Kids & Teens. Dave gets more excitement than he…
bargained for on his summer holidays to British Columbia's Gulf Islands while visiting his grandparents. He meets THAA, WEN, an elderly member of the Saanich Native Band and Rick, a new friend from Mayne Island. Together they discover an old Native campsite and THAA, WEN tells stories of the raiding parties that swept down the west coast long before the first white man arrived. Adventure begins when Dave is caught up in a search for the truth about what happened long ago at the ancient site.Stolen words
By Gabrielle Grimard, Melanie Florence. 2017
Explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the…
pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. "Stolen Words" captures the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks him how to say something in his language - Cree - her grandpa admits that his words were stolen from him when he was a boy. The little girl then sets out to help her grandfather regain his language. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2017.