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These are my words: the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens (Dear Canada)
By Ruby Slipperjack. 2016
Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to Residential School in 1966. The diary recounts her experiences of travelling there, the…
first day, and first months, focusing on the everyday life she experiences--the school routine, battles with Cree girls, being quarantined over Christmas, getting home at Easter and reuniting with her family. When the time comes to gather at the train station for the trip back to the residential school, her mother looks her in the eye and asks, "Do you want to go back, or come with us to the trapline?" Violet knows the choice she must make. Grades 4-7. 2016.The rez sisters: a play in two acts
By Tomson Highway. 1988
Seven women attempt to beat the odds by winning the biggest bingo in the world and escaping their tortured lives.…
Winner of the 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and nominated for the Governor General's Award. 1988.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.Yamǫǫzha Eyits'ǫ Wets'èkeè Tsà: Yamozha and his beaver wife (Yamozha And His Beaver Wife Ser.)
By Mary Siemens, Vital Thomas, Francis Zoe, Dianne Lafferty. 2007
In this legend, Yamozha forgets his promise to his wife and as a result she turns into a giant beaver.…
He follows her all over Denedeh but is unable to catch her. This story tells of how this great medicine man shaped the land in the Tlicho region and its surrounding areas into what it is today. 2007.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 hiverWindigo fire: a novel
By M. H Callway. 2014
Danny Bluestone, a young Native Canadian drifting through life, settles for a job at a children's camp in his Northern…
Ontario hometown of Red Dog Lake. Local entrepreneur, Meredith Easter, offers Danny some easy money: play the role of native scout for his wealthy hunting buddies. Danny suspects that Easter's roadside attraction, Santa's Fish Camp, is the front for the local grow-op, and probably more, but the money is his way out of Red Dog Lake. 2014.Whispering in shadows: a novel (Whispering In Shadows Ser.)
By Jeannette C Armstrong. 2000
Follows a young Native-American woman in her day-to-day reservation life, journeys and experiences in the city to her travels celebrating…
political events and visits to other indigenous groups around the world. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2000.Where Mary went (Where Mary Went Ser.)
By Lynne Sherry McLean. 2010
Moving back through three decades, from World War II to the Depression and years spent in the horrific residential Mohawk…
Institute, this is the story of Mary Fisher and the men in her life: her father, a proud and gentle man who loses his children through no fault of his own; her husband Gmiwan, a sensitive artist not made for the rigors of war; and Tom Dunsby, the mayor of Jackson, whose unrequited love for Mary knows no bounds. Companion novel to “Where Gmiwan Went”. Descriptions of sex and some storng language. c2010.Where the rivers meet
By Don Sawyer. 1988
Nancy Antoine seeks release from grief after the suicide of her close friend. She finds an inner strength which points…
the way to true values and recovery, not only for herself and her Native people, but for all people. For senior high and adult readers. 1988.Whale snow
By Debby Dahl Edwardson. 2003
At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale…
to his people and their culture. Includes facts about the Inupiat and the bowhead whale. Grades K-3. 2003.Une brève histoire des Indiens au Canada: nouvelles
By Thomas King, Paul Gagné, Lori Saint-Martin. 2014
À Toronto, une volée d'Indiens en pleine migration se frappent contre les gratteciel de Bay Street et retombent sur le…
pavé, comme autant d'oiseaux assommés, pour le plus grand étonnement des hommes d'affaires de passage. Heureusement que deux employés de la ville, Bill et Rudy, sont là pour les étiqueter et les relâcher dans la nature, après les avoir soignés. Un bébé blanc arrivé par erreur par la poste est offert comme premier prix au bingo hebdomadaire dans une réserve indienne, même si la plupart des joueurs préféreraient remporter le deuxième prix, qui est une camionnette. 2014. Titre uniforme: Short history of Indians in Canada.Un saumon pour Simon
By Betty Waterton, Dominique Wanin. 1992
Simon a toujours rêvé d'attraper un saumon. Mais quand la chance lui sourit et qu'un aigle en lâche un accidentellement…
dans une flaque d'eau de mer, Simon est partagé entre sa sympathie pour le poisson et son désir d'en attraper un lui-même. Années 1-3. 1992. Titre uniforme: A salmon for Simon.Truth & Bright Water
By Thomas King. 1999
Truth is a little town on the U.S. side of the Alberta-Montana border. Bright Water is the native reservation on…
the Canadian side. They are connected by a half-completed bridge over the Shield river. Tecumseh and Lum are two boys growing up on the reservation and observing the events around them and trying to make sense of the things adults do. 1999. Uniform title: Truth and Bright WaterThrough black spruce
By Joseph Boyden. 2008
Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now in a coma; his niece Annie, returned from her journey, sits…
beside his bed. Their secrets are revealed - the tragic betrayal that cost Will his family, Annie's desperate search for her missing sister. Their stories are rife with heartbreak, fierce love, ancient blood feuds, mysterious disappearances, fires, plane crashes, murders - and the bonds that hold a family, and a people, together. Winner of the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2008.Three day road
By Joseph Boyden. 2005
In 1919, Niska, an old Cree medicine woman, goes to retrieve soldier Xavier Bird, who arrives back without a leg,…
addicted to morphine, and near death. Niska paddles Xavier home while telling him her life story, and in return he tells her of his and his friend Elijah's terrible experiences in the First World War as expert snipers. As they make the three day journey, hovering over them like a dark cloud is the Windigo, a terrible Indian spirit monster. Bestseller. Some descriptons of sex and some strong language, explicit descriptions of violence. Canada Reads 2006. 2005.The winter people
By Joseph Bruchac. 2003
14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British…
soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prisoner. Junior High. 2003.The redemption of Oscar Wolf
By James Bartleman. 2013
In the early 1930s, Oscar Wolf, a 13-year-old native from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve, sets fire to the…
business section of his village north of Toronto in a fit of misguided rage against white society, inadvertently killing his grandfather and a young maid. Tortured by guilt and fearful of divine retribution, Oscar sets out on a lifetime quest for redemption. 2013.The pale Indian
By Robert Arthur Alexie. 2005
In 1972, John Daniel, an eleven-year-old Blue Indian from Aberdeen in Canada's Northwest Territories, and his six-year-old sister, Eva, were…
brought to live with a white couple in Alberta, having been removed from their parents by the Powers that Be. John promised he'd never go back, but in October 1984, at twenty-two, he broke that promise. A job with a drilling company brought him back to the land of his people, and Tina Joseph, to whom he was deeply attracted, encouraged him to confront the sad truths of his parents' lives. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2005.The Mishomis book: the voice of the Ojibway
By Edward Benton-Banai. 1988
The Ojibway is one of the largest groups of Native Americans, belonging to the Anishinabe people of what is today…
the northern United States and Canada. Documents the history, traditions, and culture of the Ojibway people through stories and myths. Draws from the traditional teachings of tribal elders to instruct young readers about Ojibway creation stories and legends, the origin and importance of the Ojibway family structure and clan system, the Midewiwin religion, the construction and use of the water drum and sweat lodge, and modern Ojibway history. For Junior and Senior High readers. 2010, c1988.The legend of the fog
By Qaunak Mikkigak, Louise Flaherty, Neil Christopher, Danny Christopher, Joanne Schwartz. 2011
In this traditional Inuit story, a simple walk on the tundra becomes a life or death journey for a young…
man. When he comes across a giant who wants to take him home and cook him for dinner, the young man’s quick thinking saves him from being devoured by the giant and his family, and in the process releases the first fog into the world. Grades K-3. Includes violence. 2011.