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1.
Cold A Novel Paperback Drew Hayden Taylor 9780771002892 $24.95 FICTION Jan 02, 2024

A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that’s ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that’s passing him by; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders, with clu... + Read More
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Freddie the Flyer Hardcover Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail 9781774880807 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 24, 2023

A gorgeous picture book that pays homage to aviator Freddie Carmichael — the first Indigenous commercial pilot in the Arctic —with each month of the year highlighting moments from his life, the beauty of the North and the power of dreams.When Freddie was young, he saw a plane up close for the first time when it dropped off supplies at his family’s remote bush camp. He was instantly hooked.Freddie has flown for nearly seventy years, doing everything from supply runs to search and rescue to transporting dog teams to far-flung areas.This book cele... + Read More
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The Mountain was Shaken with Pain Indigenous Americans and the Fight for Survival: An Anthology Paperback MELVILLE HOUSE 9781685890070 $29.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 10, 2023

A compendium of documents, speeches, essays, letters, and articles about the struggles of Indigenous and Native American peoples in the face of colonialism and climate change.The Mountain Was Shaken With Pain takes its title from a Paiute folk song and contains such foundational documents as Red Cloud’s 1870 speech at Cooper Union and the text of the infamous Fort Laramie treaty. It features in addition contemporary essays and polemics advocating for the return of land rights and urging action against climate change, which disproportionally aff... + Read More
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Life in Two Worlds A Coach's Journey from the Reserve to the NHL and Back Hardcover Ted Nolan 9780735244955 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 10, 2023

In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn’t work in pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened?Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates many sizes too big. But poverty wasn’t his biggest challenge. Playing the game meant spending his life in two worlds: one in which he was loved and accepted and one where he was often told he didn’t belong.Ted proved he had what it took, joining the Detroit Red Wings in 1978. But when his on-ice ca... + Read More
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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Are You Ready to Be Un-Settled? Paperback Shane Hawk 9781039003798 $25.00 FICTION Sep 19, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?” Featuring stories by:Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline • Carson Faust • Kelli Jo Ford • Kate Hart • Shane Hawk • Brandon Hobson • Darcie Little Badger • Conley Lyons • Nick Medina • Tiffany Morris • Tommy Orange • Mona Susan Power • Marcie R. Rendon • Waubgeshig Rice • Rebecca Roanhorse • Andrea L. Rogers • Morgan Talty • D.H. Trujillo • Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. • Richard... + Read More
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Mascot Hardcover Charles Waters 9781623543808 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Sep 05, 2023

What if a school’s mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade novel in verse, two best-selling BIPOC authors tackle this hot-button issue.In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye’s mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers–-all with different backgrounds and beliefs–-get involved in the contentious issue that already has the sub... + Read More
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Becoming a Matriarch Hardcover Helen Knott 9780385697774 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 29, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhen matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a new space.Helen Knott’s debut memoir, In My Own Moccasins, wowed reviewers, award juries, and readers alike with its profoundly honest and moving account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, resilience, and survival. Now, in her highly anticipated second book, Knott returns with a chronicle of grief, love, and legacy.Having lost both her mom and grandmother in just over six months, forced to navigate the fin... + Read More
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The Circle Hardcover katherena vermette 9780735239654 $32.00 FICTION Sep 05, 2023

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant and unwavering epic told from a constellation of Métis voices that consider the fallout when the person who connects them all goes missing.The concept was simple. You sit a bunch of people in a circle—everyone who hurt, everyone who got hurt, all affected—and let them share. Some people, it helped them heal, for sure. Others went in angry and left a different kind of angry. Learned how the blame belonged on the system, the history, the colonizer, th... + Read More
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It Stops Here Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People Hardcover Rueben George 9780735242807 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 29, 2023

A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.It Stops Here is the profound story of the spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to reclaim their lands, waters, law, and food systems in the face of colonization. In deeply moving testimony, it recounts the intergenerational struggle of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation... + Read More
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Spirit Talker Indigenous Stories and Teachings from a Mikmaq Psychic Medium Paperback Shawn Leonard 9781401971236 $23.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Aug 08, 2023

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis teaching memoir by an Indigenous spirit talker includes stories about the author’s reconnection with his Mi’kmaq heritage along with techniques for connecting to Spirit and developing your own intuition and psychic abilities.In this teaching memoir, Shawn Leonard shares his personal story of developing his abilities as a spirit talker, revealing incredible stories from his childhood to the present. Along the way, he shares experiences he has had with elders from his aboriginal tribe, the Mi’kmaq, and his journ... + Read More
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Series: MISEWA SAGA, THE The Stone Child The Misewa Saga, Book Three Paperback David A. Robertson 9780735266186 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Jul 05, 2023

It’s a race against time to save Eli, in this third book in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series. Now in paperback!After discovering a near-lifeless Eli at the base of the Great Tree, Morgan knows she doesn’t have much time to save him. And it will mean asking for help — from friends old and new. Racing against the clock, and with Arik and Emily at her side, Morgan sets off to follow the trail away from the Great Tree to find Eli’s soul before it’s too late. As they journey deep into the northern woods, a pl... + Read More
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Gallup Hardcover Roswell Angier 9780262047715 $53.95 PHOTOGRAPHY Jun 06, 2023

A poignant artistic collaboration, showing how history and mythology converge in the Navajo communities in and around Gallup, New Mexico.Taking a fresh approach to personal documentary, Gallup combines Roswell Angier’s photographs, Susan Hawley’s watercolor paintings, and both of their journal entries, as they explore the time they spent in Gallup, New Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Gallup is a place where histories and myths meet, and Angier and Hawley work through diverse media to portray a place where many versions of Native and A... + Read More
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Notes on Her Color A Novel Hardcover Jennifer Neal 9781646221196 $35.00 FICTION May 23, 2023

Florida kitsch swirls together with magical realism in this glittering debut novel about a young Black and Indigenous woman who learns to change the color of her skinGabrielle has always had a complicated relationship with her mother Tallulah, one marked by intimacy and resilience in the face of a volatile patriarch. Everything in their home has been bleached a cold white—from the cupboards filled with sheets and crockery to the food and spices Tallulah cooks with. Even Gabrielle, who inherited the ability to change the color of her skin from h... + Read More
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To Shape a Dragon's Breath The First Book of Nampeshiweisit Paperback Moniquill Blackgoose 9780593498286 $24.95 FICTION May 09, 2023

A young, indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling—and quickly finds herself at odds with the “approved” way of doing things—in the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series.The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them, A... + Read More
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A Grandmother Begins the Story A Novel Hardcover Michelle Porter 9780735245372 $34.95 FICTION May 09, 2023

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WRITERS’ TRUST ATWOOD GIBSON PRIZE*Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel.Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means.Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born, and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from... + Read More
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Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology A collection of prose and poetry from emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada Paperback Jordan Abel 9780771004858 $24.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS May 09, 2023

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Indigenous Voices Awards, an anthology consisting of selected works by finalists over the past five years, edited by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker, and Madeleine Reddon.Established in 2017, the Indigenous Voices Awards honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and nurture the work of emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada.Through generous support from hundreds of Canadians and organizations such as Penguin Random House Canada, Scholastic Canada, Douglas & McIntyre, Pamela Dillon... + Read More
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Series: Handbook of North American Indians Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1 Introduction Hardcover Igor Krupnik 9781944466534 $168.00 HISTORY May 02, 2023

New from the Smithsonian, the ultimate reference book on Native American communities and their past, present, and futureHandbook of North American Indians Volume 1 is the definitive introduction to Native American history and culture. The book provides a much-anticipated opening volume to the Smithsonian’s 20-volume series, the largest collection of knowledge on Indigenous peoples of the US, Canada, and Northern Mexico. The Smithsonian’s Handbook of North American Indians series spans decades, but this introductory volume includes updates on th... + Read More
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Project 562 Changing the Way We See Native America Hardcover Matika Wilbur 9781984859525 $66.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Apr 25, 2023

A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes.In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstarter-funded pursuit to visit, engage, and photograph people from what were then the 562 federally recognized Native American Tribal Nations. Over the next decade, she traveled six hundred thousand miles acros... + Read More
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Reclaiming Two-Spirits Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America Paperback Gregory Smithers 9780807008195 $28.95 HISTORY Apr 25, 2023

Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionA sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultur... + Read More
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A Brutal Reckoning Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South Hardcover Peter Cozzens 9780525659457 $48.00 HISTORY Apr 25, 2023

The story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South—from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth is WeepingThe Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict among the Creek Indians metastasized like a cancer. The ensuing Creek War of 1813-1814 shattered Native American control of the Deep ... + Read More
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Shutter Paperback Ramona Emerson 9781641294812 $22.95 FICTION Apr 25, 2023

Longlisted for the National Book Award This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation. “A haunting thriller, written with exquisite suspense…This is a story that won’t let you go long after you finish, and you won’t want it to end even as you can’t stop reading to find out how it does.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her ex... + Read More
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Woman of Light A Novel Paperback Kali Fajardo-Anstine 9780525511335 $24.95 FICTION Apr 18, 2023

A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina• A Phenomenal Book Club Pick • “There is one every generation—a seer who keeps the stories.”Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930’s Denver on her own, she begins to have vis... + Read More
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Sisters of the Lost Nation Hardcover Nick Medina 9780593546857 $37.00 FICTION Apr 18, 2023

Part gripping thriller and part mythological horror, a young Native girl hunts for answers about a string of disappearances, all while being haunted herself.Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation’s casino…and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step—an ancient tribal myth come to life, one that’s intent on devouring her whole.With strange and sinister happenings occurring around the casino, Anna starts to suspect that not all the horrors... + Read More
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Contenders Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series Hardcover Traci Sorell 9780593406472 $25.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Apr 11, 2023

The true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender, who in 1911 became the first two Native pro baseball players to face off in a World Series. This picture book teaches important lessons about resilience, doing what you love in the face of injustice, and the fight for Native American representation in sports.Charles Bender grew up on the White Earth Reservation in Northwestern Minnesota. John Meyers was raised on the Cahuilla reservation in Southern California. Despite their mutual respect for each other’s talents and their shared dedication to ... + Read More
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Harvest House Hardcover Cynthia Leitich Smith 9781536218602 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 11, 2023

NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith delivers a thrilling cross-genre follow-up to the acclaimed Hearts Unbroken.Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He’s excited to take part in the fun, spooky show—until he learns that an actor playing th... + Read More
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The Lost Wife A novel Hardcover Susanna Moore 9780385351430 $37.00 FICTION Apr 04, 2023

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • This immersive, brilliantly subversive historical novel, inspired by a true story, is “set in 1855, follows 25-year-old Sarah Browne as she…heads west to the Minnesota Territory…When the Sioux Uprising of 1862 erupts…Sarah and her children are captured, but protected by the Sioux. Sarah sympathizes with her captors, and slips into the gap between her two worlds” (TIME).“The story has it all: the bloody hell of war…revenge, corruption, injustice. Even some romance…A vivid tale of frontier adventure and peril.” —Minneapo... + Read More
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Funeral Songs for Dying Girls Hardcover Cherie Dimaline 9780735265639 $23.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Apr 04, 2023

After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series.Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her life, close to her mother’s grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to v... + Read More
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The Song That Called Them Home Hardcover David A. Robertson 9780735266704 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Apr 04, 2023

From the award-winning author of On the Trapline comes a cinematic fantasy-adventure story inspired by Indigenous legends.One summer day, Lauren and her little brother, James, go on a trip to the land with their Moshom (grandfather). After they’ve arrived, the children decide to fish for dinner while Moshom naps. They are in their canoe in the middle of the lake when the water around them begins to swirl and crash. They are thrown overboard and when Lauren surfaces she sees her brother being pulled away by the Memekwesewak — creatures who live ... + Read More
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Series: Ordinary People Change the World I am Sacagawea Paperback Brad Meltzer 9780593619186 $13.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Mar 28, 2023

Now in paperback, here is the inspiring story of Sacagawea, the only Native American included in Lewis and Clark’s historic expedition, part of the New York Times Bestselling biography series about heroes for ages 5 to 9.This book spotlights Sacagawea, the only girl, and the only Native American, to join Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery, which explored the U.S. in the early 1800s. As a translator, she helped the team communicate with members of the Shoshone tribe across the continent, carrying her child on her back the whole way. This frien... + Read More
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Remember Hardcover Joy Harjo 9780593484845 $25.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 21, 2023

US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s iconic poem “Remember,” illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, and to remember the importance of their place in it.Remember the sky you were born under, Know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, That is the strongest point of time. So begins the picture book adaptation of the renowned poem that encourages young readers to reflect on family, nature, and their herit... + Read More
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Red Paint The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk Paperback Sasha LaPointe 9781640095885 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 07, 2023

Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book AwardWinner of the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/MemoirAn Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent homeSasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trai... + Read More
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The Sacred Medicine Oracle A 56-Card Deck and Guidebook Cards Asha Frost 9781401966782 $35.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Feb 28, 2023

Connect with healing traditions, stories, ancestral wisdom, and animal guidance through this 56-card deck and guidebook from Indigenous Medicine Woman and author of You Are the Medicine, Asha Frost.Indigenous people know the power of earth and spirit medicine. Everything in our natural world is interconnected and sacred. The plants, animals, rocks, waters, stars, moon are our relations, our kin. Every aspect of creation has a spirit. This spirit lives in all things and informs us how to walk in a good way or, in Anishinaabemowin, Mino-bimaadizi... + Read More
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VenCo Hardcover Cherie Dimaline 9780735277212 $35.00 FICTION Feb 14, 2023

From the bestselling author of Empire of Wild, a wickedly subversive, deliciously imaginative, deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise—a book that only the supremely gifted storyteller Cherie Dimaline could write.Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a bad-ass Métis good-times girl, is barely hanging on to her nowhere life when she finds out that she and her grandmother, Stella, are about to be evicted from their apartment. Bad to worse in a heartbeat. Then one night, doing laundry in the building’s dank basement, Lucky feels ... + Read More
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Decolonizing Design A Cultural Justice Guidebook Hardcover Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall 9780262047692 $33.95 DESIGN Feb 14, 2023

A guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities.From the excesses of world expositions to myths of better living through technology, modernist design, in its European-based guises, has excluded and oppressed the very people whose lands and lives it reshaped. Decolonizing Design first asks how modernist design has encompassed and advanced the harmful project of colonization—then shows how design might address these harms by... + Read More
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Rez Rules My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples Paperback Chief Clarence Louie 9780771048357 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 07, 2023

A common-sense blueprint for the future of First Nations as told through the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader.In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, Clarence Louie was elected Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in the Okanagan Valley. Nineteen elections later, Chief Louie has led his community for nearly four decades. The story of how the Osoyoos Indian Band—“The Miracle in the Desert”—transformed from a Rez that once struggled with poverty into an economically independent people is well-known. Guided by his years growing up on the... + Read More
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True North Rising My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North Paperback Whit Fraser 9781039005594 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 31, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who successfully overturned the colonial order and politically reshaped Canada—including his wife, Mary Simon, Canada’s first Indigenous governor general.“This is a huge embrace of a book, irresistible on every level…. I couldn’t put it down.” —Elizabeth Hay, Scotiabank Giller prize-winning author of Late Nights on AirIn True North Rising, Whit Fraser ... + Read More
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Series: THE FLORAVERSE The Everlasting Road Hardcover Wab Kinew 9780735269033 $23.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Jan 10, 2023

The boundaries between the virtual and the real world become dangerously blurred for a young Indigenous girl in the follow-up to the YA fantasy debut Walking in Two Worlds from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series.Devastated by the loss of her beloved older brother to cancer, Bugz returns to the place where she can always find solace and strength: the Floraverse. Over the past year, she has gained back all that she had lost in that virtual world, and while the remaining ClanLess... + Read More
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Series: REVISIONING HISTORY An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States Paperback Kyle T. Mays 9780807006993 $24.95 HISTORY Nov 15, 2022

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early AmericaBeginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have always... + Read More
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True Reconciliation How to Be a Force for Change Hardcover Jody Wilson-Raybould 9780771004384 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 08, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 bestselling author of ’Indian’ in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation across Canada.There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? This has been true from her time as a leader of British Columbia’s First Nations, as a Member of Parliament, as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, within the business communities she interacts, and when having conversations with people around thei... + Read More
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Series: MUD SAWPOLE MYSTERY, A Never Name the Dead A Novel Hardcover D. M. Rowell 9781639101276 $37.99 FICTION Nov 08, 2022

Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors, in this own-voices debut perfect for fans of Winter Counts. No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma. She never expected to be plunged into a web of... + Read More
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All Roads Home A Life On and Off the Ice Hardcover Bryan Trottier 9780771084478 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 25, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada’s most decorated Indigenous athlete.Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. In 2017, he was name... + Read More
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Scars and Stars Poems Hardcover Jesse Thistle 9780771003509 $25.00 POETRY Oct 18, 2022

A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes.Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout his bestselling memoir. In Scars & Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart.Charting his own history, the stories of people from his past, the burning intensity of new and unexpected love, the complex legacies of family and community, and the beauty o... + Read More
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Justice of the Pies Sweet and Savory Pies, Quiches, and Tarts plus Inspirational Stories from Exceptional People: A Baking Book Hardcover Maya-Camille Broussard 9780593234440 $40.00 COOKING Oct 18, 2022

75 sweet and savory pie, quiche, and tart recipes from one of the stars of Netflix’s Bake Squad.Maya-Camille Broussard launched her social mission-based bakery, Justice of the Pies, as a way to honor her father’s memory and their shared passion for pie—and justice. She also gives back to her community through teaching, donating, and empowering others.In Justice of the Pies, Maya-Camille celebrates the pies and other mouthwatering creations that have put her on the map, including her famous Salted Caramel Peach Pie, Brandied Banana Butterscotch ... + Read More
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation) Life in Native America Hardcover David Treuer 9780593203477 $26.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 18, 2022

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a story of Native American resilience and reinvention, adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name.Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated—if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago.The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today—and the fight to preserve lang... + Read More
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Series: A CASH BLACKBEAR MYSTERY Sinister Graves Hardcover Marcie R. Rendon 9781641293839 $36.95 FICTION Oct 11, 2022

“Marcie Rendon is writing an addictive and authentically Native crime series propelled by the irresistible Cash Blackbear—a warm, sad, sharp, funny and intuitive young Ojibwe woman. I want a shelf of Cash Blackbear novels! To my delight I have a feeling that Rendon is only getting started.”—Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night WatchmanSet in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gripping new mystery follows Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman, as she attempts to discover ... + Read More
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Spirit Rangers (Spirit Rangers) Hardcover Karissa Valencia 9780593570241 $23.49 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 11, 2022

A beautifully illustrated hardcover storybook introducing kids to the characters of Netflix’s preschool show Spirit Rangers!It’s opening day at Xus National Park in Southern California, and Kodi, Summer, and Eddy Skycedar’s first day as Junior Park Rangers! But when a mysterious storm threatens to close the park, the siblings must put their heads together to save the day. Kids ages 3 to 7 will love this hardcover storybook full of beautiful illustrations featuring the amazing characters from Netflix’s newest preschool show Spirit Rangers!Create... + Read More
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Forever Cousins Hardcover Laurel Goodluck 9781623542924 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 7 Oct 04, 2022

In this Native American story, Kara and Amanda are best-friend cousins. Then Kara leaves the city to move back to the Rez. Will their friendship stay the same?Kara and Amanda hate not being together. Then it’s time for the family reunion on the Rez. Each girl worries that the other hasn’t missed her. But once they reconnect, they realize that they are still forever cousins. This story highlights the ongoing impact of the 1950s Indian Relocation Act on Native families, even today.This tender story about navigating change reminds readers that the... + Read More
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Series: SHE PERSISTED She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller Paperback Traci Sorell 9780593403051 $7.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Oct 04, 2022

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds—including Wilma Mankiller!The descendant of Cherokee ancestors who had been forced to walk the Trail of Tears, Wilma Mankiller experienced her own forced removal from the land she grew up on as a child. As she got older and learned more about the injustices her people had faced, she dedicated her life to instilling pride in Native heritage and reclaiming Native right... + Read More
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Series: THE FLORAVERSE Walking in Two Worlds Paperback Wab Kinew 9780735269026 $13.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 04, 2022

An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew. Perfect for fans of Ready Player One and the Otherworld series.In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and reserve life. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massively multiplayer video game universe.Feng is a teen boy who has been sent from China to live with his aunt, a doctor on the reser... + Read More
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Probably Ruby A Novel Paperback Lisa Bird-Wilson 9780385696708 $19.95 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

A CBC BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARProbably Ruby is an audacious, brave, and beautiful book about an adopted woman’s search for her Indigenous identity, for readers of Tommy Orange’s There There and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries.Relinquished as an infant, Ruby is placed in a foster home and finally adopted by Alice and Mel, a less-than-desirable couple who can’t afford to complain too loudly about Ruby’s Indigenous roots. But when her new parents’ marriage falls apart, Ruby finds herself vulnerable and in compromising situations... + Read More
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Finding My Dance Hardcover Ria Thundercloud 9780593093894 $24.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Sep 13, 2022

In her debut picture book, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of her path to dance and how it helped her take pride in her Native American heritage.At four years old, Ria Thundercloud was brought into the powwow circle, ready to dance in the special jingle dress her mother made for her. As she grew up, she danced with her brothers all over Indian country. Then Ria learned more styles—tap, jazz, ballet—but still loved the expressiveness of Indigenous dance. And despite feeling different as one of the only Native... + Read More
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A Minor Chorus A Novel Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735242005 $27.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

*WINNER OF THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON PRIZE**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE*NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada’s most daring literary talents.An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness.What ensues is a series of conversations, connec... + Read More
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Call Me Indian From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player Paperback Fred Sasakamoose 9780735240032 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 13, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF INDIGO’S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2021“Fred Sasakamoose is an icon… a must-read for Indigenous communities, hockey fans, and all Canadians.”—Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Crusted SnowTrailblazer. Residential school Survivor. First Treaty Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are true—but none of them tell the whole story.Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in ... + Read More
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Yossel's Journey Hardcover Kathryn Lasky 9781623541767 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 5 - 9 Sep 06, 2022

When Yossel’s family flees anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia and immigrates to the American Southwest, he worries about making a new home and new friends.In his family’s new store next to the Navajo reservation, Yossel watches neighbors pass through. He learns lots of Navajo (Diné) words, but he’s still too afraid and lonely to try talking to anyone. Finally he meets Thomas, a Navajo boy just his age. Making new friends can be hard, especially when you’re learning a new language to tell your jokes. A historical picture book about the power of cross... + Read More
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The Strangers Paperback katherena vermette 9780735239630 $22.00 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR FICTION * NAMED #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY INDIGO * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD, MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION, AND MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE * A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOKThe Strangers, a staggering intergenerational saga from from the bestselling author of The Break, explores how connected we are, even when we’re no longer together—even when we’re force... + Read More
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Permanent Astonishment Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Paperback Tomson Highway 9780385696227 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

WINNER OF THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * NOMINATED FOR THE EVERGREEN AWARD * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, AND CBC Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada’s most acclaimed Indigenous writers and performersTomson Highway was born in a snowbank on an island in the sub-Arctic, the eleventh of twelve children in a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family. Growing up in a land of ten thousand lakes and islands, Tomson relished being pulled by dogsled beneath ... + Read More
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Making Love with the Land Hardcover Joshua Whitehead 9780735278868 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONMuch-anticipated non-fiction from the author of the Giller-longlisted, GG-shortlisted and Canada Reads-winning novel Jonny Appleseed.“Thrillingly cerebral…. Delivered with virtuoso aplomb.” —The New York TimesIn the last few years, following the publication of his debut novel Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead has emerged as one of the most exciting and important new voices on Turtle Island. Now, in this first non-fiction work, Whitehead brilliantly explores Ind... + Read More
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Life in the City of Dirty Water A Memoir of Healing Paperback Clayton Thomas-Muller 9780735240087 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 23, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 2022 CANADA READS FINALISTAn electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally recognized activist and survivor.There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada’s residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the str... + Read More
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Shutter Hardcover Ramona Emerson 9781641293334 $34.95 FICTION Aug 02, 2022

Longlisted for the National Book Award This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation. “A haunting thriller, written with exquisite suspense…This is a story that won’t let you go long after you finish, and you won’t want it to end even as you can’t stop reading to find out how it does.” —Tommy Orange, author of There There Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her ex... + Read More
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Keepunumuk Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story Hardcover Danielle Greendeer 9781623542900 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Aug 02, 2022

In this Wampanoag story told in a Native tradition, two kids from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe learn the story of Weeâchumun (corn) and the first Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving story that most Americans know celebrates the Pilgrims. But without members of the Wampanoag tribe who already lived on the land where the Pilgrims settled, the Pilgrims would never have made it through their first winter. And without Weeâchumun (corn), the Native people wouldn’t have helped. An important picture book honoring both the history and tradition that surrounds... + Read More