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Series: 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.In 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 Indigeneity, queerness, and the relationships between body, language and land t... + Read More
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Series: 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.Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators ... + Read More
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Series: 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
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Series: MISEWA SAGA, THE The Stone Child The Misewa Saga, Book Three Hardcover David A. Robertson 9780735266162 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Aug 02, 2022

It’s a race against time to save Eli, in this third book in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series. 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 place they’ve been ... + Read More
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Series: MISEWA SAGA, THE The Great Bear The Misewa Saga, Book Two Paperback David A. Robertson 9780735266155 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Aug 02, 2022

In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time.Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel... + Read More
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Series: Night of the Living Rez Paperback Morgan Talty 9781953534187 $22.95 FICTION Jul 05, 2022

Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight—breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future. A boy unearths a jar that holds an old curse, which sets into motion his family’s unravelin... + Read More
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Series: Rehearsals for Living Hardcover Robyn Maynard 9781039000650 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 14, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE CBC’S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022A revolutionary collaboration about the world we’re living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists.When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of Policing Black Lives, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, renowned artist, musician, and author of Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, began writing each other letters—a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection i... + Read More
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Series: Rez Dogs Paperback Joseph Bruchac 9780593326220 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Jun 07, 2022

Renowned author Joseph Bruchac tells a powerful story of a girl who learns more about her Penacook heritage while sheltering in place with her grandparents during the coronavirus pandemic.Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation—she’s there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There’s a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay with her grandparents for the duration.Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but Malian knows how to keep her family safe: She protects her... + Read More
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Series: Woman of Light A Novel Hardcover Kali Fajardo-Anstine 9780525511328 $37.00 FICTION Jun 07, 2022

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“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 visions that transport her to her I... + Read More
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Series: Half-Bads in White Regalia A Memoir Paperback Cody Caetano 9780735240858 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 31, 2022

*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023*NATIONAL BESTSELLERA family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice.The Caetanos move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties Scoop origin story, embarks on a series of fraught relationships and fresh starts. His dad, O Touro, a Portuguese immigrant and drifter, falls back i... + Read More
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Series: Murder at the Mission A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West Paperback Blaine Harden 9780525561682 $24.00 HISTORY Apr 26, 2022

“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” —Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy RepublicThe New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with a riveting narrative that traces the truth behnd—and the impact of—a myth that tainted the history of the WestIn this fascinating narrative, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden delves into one of the most persistent “alternative facts” in American history: the story of the Whitman Massacre, a myth that forever altered the w... + Read More
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Series: Dog Flowers A Memoir, an Archive Paperback Danielle Geller 9781984820419 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 12, 2022

A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life, using both narrative and photographic archive to create a gripping memoir of her family’s troubled history."This shattering memoir combines image and text to reveal a portrait of home.” –ElleWhen Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most are filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contains diaries, photos, letters, and a few u... + Read More
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Series: TRICKSTER TRILOGY, THE Return of the Trickster Paperback Eden Robinson 9780735273474 $21.00 FICTION Mar 29, 2022

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“The last book in Eden Robinson’s lauded Trickster Trilogy is everything at once, in a good way. It’s a page-turner dense with history and lore: gruesome…then suddenly hilarious.” —Toronto StarA deeply satisfying, explosive, surprising and satisfying resolution to the trilogy by one of Canada’s most gifted and beloved storytellers.All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life an... + Read More
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Series: PENGUIN VITAE Bless Me, Ultima Hardcover Rudolfo Anaya 9780143137221 $40.00 FICTION Mar 15, 2022

A collectible hardcover 50th-anniversary edition of the bestselling Chicano novel of all time, featuring a new foreword by Erika L. Sánchez, the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican DaughterA Penguin Vitae EditionAlthough only six years old, Antonio Marez is perceptive beyond his years. He was brought into the world with the help of Ultima, a curandera, or folk healer, in touch with nature and the spirit world. Revered by some as a wisewoman but rebuked by others as a witch, Ultima has now come back to stay with To... + Read More
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Series: Red Paint The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk Hardcover Sasha LaPointe 9781640094147 $33.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 08, 2022

Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book AwardAn 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 trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha.With little more to guide her tha... + Read More
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Series: SHE PERSISTED She Persisted in Science Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference Hardcover Chelsea Clinton 9780593353295 $23.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 01, 2022

A STEM-focused addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling She Persisted series!Throughout history, women have been told that science isn’t for them. They’ve been told that they’re not smart enough, or that their brains just aren’t able to handle it. In this book, Chelsea Clinton introduces readers to women scientists who didn’t listen to those who told them “no” and who used their smarts, their skills and their persistence to discover, invent, create and explain.She Persisted in Science is for everyone who’s ever had questions about the worl... + Read More
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Series: ALPHA AND OMEGA Wild Sign Paperback Patricia Briggs 9780440001607 $11.99 FICTION Feb 22, 2022

Mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham must discover what could make an entire community disappear—before it’s too late—in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Alpha and Omega series, now in mass market.In the wilds of the Northern California mountains, all the inhabitants of a small town have gone missing. It’s as if the people picked up and left their possessions behind. With a mystery on their hands and no jurisdiction on private property, the FBI dumps the whole problem in the lap of the land owner, Aspen Cree... + Read More
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Series: Powwow Day Hardcover Traci Sorell 9781580899482 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Feb 08, 2022

In this uplifting, contemporary Native American story, River is recovering from illness and can’t dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again?River wants so badly to dance at powwow day as she does every year. In this uplifting and contemporary picture book perfect for beginning readers, follow River’s journey from feeling isolated after an illness to learning the healing power of community.Additional information explains the history and functions of powwows, which are commonplace across the United States and Canada and are open to... + Read More
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Series: Peacemaker Paperback Joseph Bruchac 9781984815392 $10.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jan 04, 2022

A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy searches for peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy.Twelve-year-old Okwaho’s life has suddenly changed. While he and his best friend are out hunting, his friend is kidnapped by men from a neighboring tribal nation, and Okwaho barely escapes. Everyone in his village fears more raids and killings: The Five Nations of the Iroquois have been at war with one another for far too long, and no one can remember what it was like to live in peace.Okwaho is so angry that he wants to s... + Read More
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Series: Rez Rules My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples Hardcover Chief Clarence Louie 9780771048333 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 16, 2021

A common-sense blueprint for what the future of First Nations should look like 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 y... + Read More
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Series: Oak Flat A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West Paperback Lauren Redniss 9780399589737 $27.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 09, 2021

A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning.Oak Flat is a serene high elevation mesa that sits above the southeastern Arizona desert, fifteen miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls cel... + Read More
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Series: Who Was? Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers? Paperback James Buckley Jr. 9780399542657 $9.50 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Oct 26, 2021

Learn how this heroic group of American Indian men created a secret, unbreakable code and helped the US win major battles during World War II in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series.By the time the United States joined the Second World War in 1941, the fight against Nazi and Axis powers had already been under way for two years. In order to win the war and protect its soldiers, the US Marines recruited twenty-nine Navajo men to create a secret code that could be used to send military messages quickly and safely across ba... + Read More
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Series: Hunting by Stars (A Marrow Thieves Novel) Paperback Cherie Dimaline 9780735269651 $16.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Oct 19, 2021

The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream.Years ago, when plague and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones... + Read More
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Series: Notable Native People 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present Hardcover Adrienne Keene 9781984857941 $24.99 HISTORY Oct 19, 2021

An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.Celebrate the lives, stories, and contributions of Indigenous artists, activists, scientists, athletes, and other changemakers in this beautifully illustrated collection. From luminaries of the past, like nineteenth-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis—the first Black and Native American female a... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Astonishment Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Hardcover Tomson Highway 9780385696203 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 28, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERCapricious, 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 a night sky alive with stars, sucking the juices from roasted muskrat tails, and singing country music songs with his impossibly beautiful older sister and her teena... + Read More
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Series: The Misewa Saga The Great Bear The Misewa Saga, Book Two Hardcover David A. Robertson 9780735266131 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Sep 28, 2021

In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan journey once more to Misewa, travelling back in time.Back at home after their first adventure in the Barren Grounds, Eli and Morgan each struggle with personal issues: Eli is being bullied at school, and tries to hide it from Morgan, while Morgan has to make an important decision about her birth mother. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey to Misewa to visit their animal friends. This time they travel... + Read More
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Series: The Strangers Hardcover Katherena Vermette 9780735239616 $29.95 FICTION Sep 28, 2021

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD, MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION, AND MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEA GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOKFrom the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores how connected we are, even when we’re no longer together—even when we’re forced apart.Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks lik... + Read More
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Series: Carry A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land Paperback Toni Jensen 9781984821201 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 21, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence.“Essential…We need more voices like Toni Jensen’s, more books like Carry.”—Tommy Orange, author of There ThereGoop Book Club Pick • Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeToni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silen... + Read More
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Series: Unreconciled Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance Hardcover Jesse Wente 9780735235731 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 21, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read.”—Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian and SufferanceA prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and Indigenous peoples and the power of narrative to emphasize truth over comfort.Part memoir... + Read More
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Series: The Floraverse Walking in Two Worlds Hardcover Wab Kinew 9780735269002 $21.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Sep 14, 2021

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 life on the Rez. 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 Re... + Read More
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Series: The Misewa Saga The Barren Grounds The Misewa Saga, Book One Paperback David A. Robertson 9780735266124 $12.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Aug 31, 2021

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle-grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home—until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing ... + Read More
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Series: Life in the City of Dirty Water A Memoir of Healing Hardcover Clayton Thomas-Muller 9780735240063 $29.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 24, 2021

*FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*NATIONAL BESTSELLERA gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the warrior’s fight against the assault on Indigenous peoples’ lands—and eventually the warrior’s spirituality.There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from d... + Read More
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Series: Probably Ruby A Novel Hardcover Lisa Bird-Wilson 9780385696685 $29.95 FICTION Aug 24, 2021

For readers of Tommy Orange’s There There and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries, Probably Ruby is an audacious, brave and beautiful book about an adopted woman’s search for her Indigenous identity.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 that lead her to search, in the unlikeliest ... + Read More
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Series: A History of My Brief Body Paperback Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735237803 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 24, 2021

Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Prize for NonfictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That ProvokesFinalist for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction PrizeNATIONAL BESTSELLERA slim but electrifying debut memoir about the preciousness and precariousness of queer Indigenous life.Opening with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life on the Driftpile First Nation, Billy-Ray Belcourt delivers a searing account of Indigenous life that’s part love letter, part rallying cry.With the... + Read More
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Series: Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound Paperback David M. Buerge 9781632173454 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 03, 2021

This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times—the story of a half-century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community.When the British, Spanish, and then Americans arrived in the Pacific Northwest, it may have appeared to them as an untamed wilderness. In fact, it was a fully settled and populated land. Chief Seattle was a powerful representative from this very ancient world. Historian Da... + Read More
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Series: Letters in a Bruised Cosmos Paperback Liz Howard 9780771037573 $19.95 POETRY Jun 08, 2021

The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent.GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE, FINALISTTRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY, FINALISTI have to believe my account will outpace its ending.The danger and necessity of living with each other is at the core of Liz Howard’s daring and intimate second collection. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos asks who do we become after the worst has happened? Invoking the knowledge histories of Western and Indigenous astrophysical science, Howard takes us on a breakn... + Read More
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Series: Rez Dogs Hardcover Joseph Bruchac 9780593326213 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Jun 08, 2021

Renowned author Joseph Bruchac tells a powerful story of a girl who learns more about her Penacook heritage while sheltering in place with her grandparents during the coronavirus pandemic.Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation—she’s there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There’s a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay with her grandparents for the duration.Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but Malian knows how to keep her family safe: She protects her... + Read More
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Series: Kiss of the Fur Queen Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Tomson Highway 9780385697217 $22.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

Originally published in 1998, Kiss of the Fur Queen is a powerful and beautiful tale of siblings and tricksters, culture and trauma, and finding yourself in a world that tries to tell you who you are—and it’s now a Penguin Modern Classic.Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by pries... + Read More
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Series: Motorcycles & Sweetgrass Penguin Modern Classics Edition Paperback Drew Hayden Taylor 9781039000612 $22.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

A beloved story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger, and a band of marauding raccoons—now as a Penguin Modern Classic.Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, has been struggling with her responsibilities in the community and as a mother to her aloof teenage son, Virgil, after the death of her own mother and the loss of their last connection the old ways of life.Then John, a mysterious white man, pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle and turns Otter Lake upside down. Maggie get... + Read More
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Series: NISHGA Hardcover Jordan Abel 9780771007903 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 18, 2021

WINNER of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize at the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence.As a Nisga'a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga'a language, Nisga'a community, and Nisga'a cultural knowledge. However, as an intergenerat... + Read More
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Series: Call Me Indian From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player Hardcover Fred Sasakamoose 9780735240018 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 18, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fred Sasakamoose played in the NHL before First Nations people had the right to vote in Canada. This page turner will have you cheering for ’Fast Freddy’ as he faces off against huge challenges both on and off the ice—a great gift to every proud hockey fan, Canadian, and Indigenous person.”—Wab Kinew, Leader of the Manitoba NDP and author of The Reason You WalkTrailblazer. 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 Sasa... + Read More
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Series: On the Trapline Hardcover David A. Robertson 9780735266681 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 May 04, 2021

A picture book celebrating Indigenous culture and traditions. The Governor General Award—winning team behind When We Were Alone shares a story that honors our connections to our past and our grandfathers and fathers.WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARDA boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom. A trapline is where people hunt and live off the land, and it was where Moshom grew up. As they embark on their northern journey, the child repeatedly asks his grandfather, “Is this your trapline?” A... + Read More
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Series: White Magic Hardcover Elissa Washuta 9781951142391 $35.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Apr 27, 2021

Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, “starter witch kits” of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning. In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about l... + Read More
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Series: The Water Lady How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation Hardcover Alice B. McGinty 9780525645009 $24.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Mar 30, 2021

This inspiring picture book tells the true story of a woman who brings desperately needed water to families on the Navajo reservation every day. Underneath the New Mexico sky, a Navajo boy named Cody finds that his family's barrels of water are empty. He checks the chicken coop-- nothing. He walks down the road to the horses' watering hole. Dry. Meanwhile, a few miles away, Darlene Arviso drives a school bus and picks up students for school. After dropping them off, she heads to another job: she drives her big yellow tanker truck to the water t... + Read More
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Series: This Town Sleeps Paperback Dennis E. Staples 9781640094642 $23.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

“Elegant and gritty, angry and funny…emotional without being sentimental.”—Tommy Orange, author of There, ThereSet on a reservation in far northern Minnesota, this “tender, suspenseful, irresistible first novel” explores Indigenous legend, queer relationship and the power of landscape and lineage to shape our lives (Louise Erdrich)On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake, within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez, two men enter into a secret romance. Marion Lafournier, a midtwenties gay Ojibwe man, begins a relationship with h... + Read More
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Series: Peacemaker Hardcover Joseph Bruchac 9781984815378 $22.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jan 05, 2021

A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy searches for peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy.Twelve-year-old Okwaho’s life has suddenly changed. While he and his best friend are out hunting, his friend is kidnapped by men from a neighboring tribal nation, and Okwaho barely escapes. Everyone in his village fears more raids and killings: The Five Nations of the Iroquois have been at war with one another for far too long, and no one can remember what it was like to live in peace.Okwaho is so angry that he wants to s... + Read More
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Series: Oak Flat A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West Hardcover Lauren Redniss 9780399589720 $40.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 17, 2020

A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning.Oak Flat is a serene high elevation mesa that sits above the southeastern Arizona desert, fifteen miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls cel... + Read More
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Series: Unsettled Ground The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West Hardcover Cassandra Tate 9781632172501 $24.95 HISTORY Nov 17, 2020

Washington State Book Award Finalist A highly-readable, myth-busting history of the Whitman Massacre—a pivotal event in the history of the American West—that includes the often-missing Indian point of view In 1836, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, devout missionaries from upstate New York, established a Presbyterian mission on Cayuse Indian land near what is now the fashionable wine capital of Walla Walla, Washington. Eleven years later, a group of Cayuses killed the Whitmans and eleven others in what became known as the Whitman Massacre. The attac... + Read More
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Series: Black Sun Rising / La Corazonada A novel / una novela Paperback Barry Gifford 9781609809980 $24.95 FICTION Nov 10, 2020

The first Western noir by Barry Gifford, “a killer fuckin’ writer.” (David Lynch)Based on historical events in 1851, this Western noir novella traces the struggle of the first integrated Native American tribe to establish themselves on the North American continent. After escaping the Oklahoma relocation camps they had been placed in following their forced evacuation from Florida, the Seminole Indians banded with fugitive slaves from the American South to fulfill the vision of their leader, Coyote, to establish their land in Mexico’s Nacimiento.... + Read More
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Series: Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band Paperback Christian Staebler 9781684057146 $25.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 27, 2020

Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock ’n’ roll pioneers Redbone.You’ve heard the hit song “Come and Get Your Love” in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, but the story of the band behind it is one of cultural, political, and social importance.Brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas were talented Native American rock musicians that took the 1960s Sunset Strip by storm. They influenced The Doors and jammed with Jimmy H... + Read More
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Series: Arctic culture and climate Hardcover Amber Lincoln 9780500480663 $79.00 HISTORY Oct 20, 2020

From the origins of the Arctic to its contemporary life, this book is an intriguing survey of human achievement in a place relatively unknown to the rest of the world.For more than 25,000 years, Arctic peoples have made warm and hospitable homes in diverse and innovative ways out of ecosystems of ice. For the first time in their long history, however, Arctic communities are facing the real possibility that the foundations of their way of life—sea ice and permafrost—will soon disappear. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Britis... + Read More
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Series: The Whale Child Paperback Keith Egawa 9781623174866 $25.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 7 - 10 Oct 13, 2020

An inspiring middle-grade chapter book that introduces young readers to the environmental challenges facing the planet through the eyes of Coast Salish characters and authors.“You have family on land as you do in the sea…being a caretaker of the earth begins with taking care of the water that all life depends on.”Shiny is a whale child. One day his mother teaches him about the harm facing the world’s oceans because of human carelessness. Shiny agrees to be turned into a boy by the ocean’s water spirit so he can visit the land and alert people t... + Read More
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Series: The Radiant Lives of Animals Hardcover Linda Hogan 9780807047927 $25.95 NATURE Oct 13, 2020

Winner of the (Inaugural) 2022 National Book Foundation Science + Literature AwardFrom a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal world, in an illustrated gift package.Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants, Indigenous writer and environmentalist Linda Hogan depicts her own intense relationships with animals as an example we all can follow to heal our souls and reconnect with the spirit... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Poets Little Big Bully Paperback Heid E. Erdrich 9780143135920 $27.00 POETRY Oct 06, 2020

In a new collection that is “a force of nature” (Amy Gerstler), renowned Native poet Heid E. Erdrich applies her rich inventive voice and fierce wit to the deforming effects of harassment and oppression.Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this? In answer, this book offers personal myth, American and Native American contexts, and allegories driven by women’s resistance to narcissists, stalkers, and harassers. These poems are immediate, personal, political, cultural, even futuristic o... + Read More
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Series: The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear Paperback Gerry Spence 9781609809669 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 06, 2020

The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means’s Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed in the camp with the intention of compromising the reputation of AIM. This story reveals the strug... + Read More
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Series: Why We Serve Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces Hardcover NMAI 9781588346971 $39.95 HISTORY Sep 15, 2020

Rare stories from more than 250 years of Native Americans’ service in the militaryWhy We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington, DC, to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Native veterans. American Indians’ history of military service dates to colonial times, and today, they serve at one of the highest rates of any ethnic group. Why We Serve explores the range of reasons why, from love of their home to an... + Read More
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Series: Why We Serve, Deluxe Edition Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces Hardcover NMAI 9781588346995 $66.00 HISTORY Sep 15, 2020

Rare stories from more than 250 years of Native Americans’ service in the militaryWhy We Serve, Deluxe Edition, limited to 500 copies, is a stunning keepsake or gift. The lavish cloth cover with a beautiful 4-color image tipped on is encased in a translucent jacket. Illustrations celebrating Native American service in the armed forces pop on 100# matte art stock.Why We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington,... + Read More
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Series: Empire of Wild Paperback Cherie Dimaline 9780735277205 $21.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2020

INDIGO’S #1 BEST BOOK OF 2019NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Ripping, roaring, fur-flying, and more!” says Margaret Atwood about this captivating novel from the author of The Marrow Thieves, the #1 national bestseller, multi-award winner, and Canada Reads finalist“Wildly entertaining and profound and essential.” —Tommy Orange, The New York TimesBroken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year—ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a li... + Read More
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Series: The Misewa Saga The Barren Grounds The Misewa Saga, Book One Hardcover David A. Robertson 9780735266100 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Sep 08, 2020

Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture and each other, and struggle to fit in at school and at their new home—until they find a secret place, walled off in an unfinished attic bedroom. A portal opens to another reality, Askí, bringing ... + Read More
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Series: Carry A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land Hardcover Toni Jensen 9781984821188 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 08, 2020

“So strong, bright, and clear. We need more voices like Toni’s, more books like Carry.”—Tommy OrangeA powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence—for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot.Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their si... + Read More