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1.
A Grandmother Begins the Story A Novel Hardcover Michelle Porter 9780735245372 $34.95 FICTION May 09, 2023

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 her own mother.Lucie wants the granddaughter she’s never met... + 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Minor Chorus A Novel Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735242005 $27.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BC AND YUKON ETHEL WILSON 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, ... + 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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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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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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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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Half-Bads in White Regalia A Memoir Paperback Cody Caetano 9780735240858 $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 31, 2022

*WINNER OF THE 2023 INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARD FOR PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR**LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS*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 birt... + Read More
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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: The Trickster trilogy 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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Poet Warrior A Memoir Hardcover Joy Harjo 9780393248524 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 07, 2021

National bestseller An ALA Notable Book Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and de... + Read More
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Series: MISEWA SAGA, THE 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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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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A History of My Brief Body Paperback Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735237803 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 24, 2021

WINNER OF THE HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE JIM DEVA PRIZE FOR WRITING THAT PROVOKESFINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHYNATIONAL 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, par... + Read More
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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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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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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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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 PrizesFrom 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 intergenerati... + Read More
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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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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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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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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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This Town Sleeps Paperback Dennis E. Staples 9781640094642 $23.00 FICTION Mar 16, 2021

A “tender, suspenseful, irresistible first novel” that explores Indigenous legend, queer relationship, and the power of landscape and lineage to shape our lives (Louise Erdrich, author of The Round House). An unsolved murder becomes the fixation of an Indigenous American man living in far northern Minnesota as he grapples with his relationship with a closeted white man. 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 ga... + Read More
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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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The Radiant Lives of Animals Hardcover Linda Hogan 9780807047927 $28.95 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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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: 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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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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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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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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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Paperback Joy Harjo 9780393356809 $25.95 POETRY Aug 25, 2020

Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize–winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors ... + Read More
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An American Sunrise Poems Paperback Joy Harjo 9780393358483 $21.95 POETRY Aug 18, 2020

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land. In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people... + Read More
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Highway of Tears A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Paperback Jessica McDiarmid 9780385687591 $21.00 TRUE CRIME Jul 14, 2020

Finalist for the 2020 RBC Taylor PrizeFinalist for the 2020 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction PrizeNational BestsellerA Hill Times Best Book of the YearA penetrating and deeply moving account of the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them.For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national cr... + Read More
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Heart Berries A Memoir Paperback Terese Marie Mailhot 9780385691161 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 02, 2020

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Heart Berries is a sledgehammer…a mixture of vulnerability and rage, sexual yearning and artistic ambition, swagger and self-mockery…. A new model for the memoir.”—The New York Times“An astounding memoir in essays. Here is a wound. Here is need, naked and unapologetic. Here is a mountain woman, towering in words great and small…. What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined.” -Roxane Gay, author of Hunger Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the ... + Read More
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground Paperback Alicia Elliott 9780385692403 $21.00 HISTORY Jun 02, 2020

Finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction#1 National BestsellerA bold and profound work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and unde... + Read More
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Yua: Spirit of the Arctic Highlights from the Thomas G. Fowler Collection Hardcover William Fitzhugh 9783791359458 $54.00 ART May 19, 2020

This superb collection of works by Native Alaskan and Canadian Inuit artists celebrates their creativity and skill while highlighting the history and culture of the Arctic.Over the course of his life, artist, adventurer, and collector Thomas G. Fowler gathered a rich and diverse group of works by Native artists from the Arctic. He was inspired by the concept of yua, a recognition that all things, including objects, have a unique inner essence or spirit. The works in his collection embody this view and highlight the raw materials used to make th... + Read More
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Hearts Unbroken Paperback Cynthia Leitich Smith 9781536213133 $11.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Apr 14, 2020

Winner of an American Indian Youth Literature Award New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school — and first love.When Louise Wolfe’s first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It’s her senior year, anyway, and she’d rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up ... + Read More
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Buck Naked Kitchen Radiant and Nourishing Recipes to Fuel Your Health Journey Hardcover Kirsten Buck 9780735236813 $35.00 COOKING Apr 07, 2020

Beautiful and delicious gluten-free, grain-free, and dairy-free recipes, fully endorsed by Whole30.As millions of people know, one of the toughest things about completing the Whole30 is figuring out what to eat the other 335 days of the year. Kirsten Buck, creator of Buck Naked Kitchen, struggled with her weight and chronic eczema for years before she transformed her life through food. She adopted a mostly paleo way of eating—gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, healthy fats, no refined sugars—and experienced dramatic weight loss. Soon after sh... + Read More
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Halfbreed Paperback Maria Campbell 9780771024092 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 05, 2019

A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic.An unflinchingly honest memoir of her experience as a Métis woman in Canada, Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed depicts the realities that she endured and, above all, overcame. Maria was born in Northern Saskatchewan, her father the grandson of a Scottish businessman and Métis woman—a niece of Gabriel Dumont whose family fought alongside Riel and Dumont in the 1885 Rebellion; her mother the daughter of a Cree woman and French-American man. This extraordinary account, originally published i... + Read More
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Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities Paperback Paul Seesequasis 9780735273313 $32.95 HISTORY Oct 22, 2019

A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs—a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis’s popular social media project.In 2015, writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis found himself grappling with the devastating findings of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on the residential school system. He sought understanding and inspiration in the stories of his mother, herself a residential school survivor. Gradually, Paul realized that another, ... + Read More
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Beautiful Scars Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home Paperback Tom Wilson 9780385685672 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2019

“Bunny told me there were secrets about me that she would take to the grave, secrets that no one would ever hear, including me…”Tom Wilson always felt something wasn’t quite right. His parents, Bunny and George, were much older than other kids’ parents. There were no baby photos of him in the house. At school, classmates called him Indian, despite his parents’ Irish-Quebecois background. And as he got older, friends, lovers and even family members remarked on his uncanny resemblance to Bunny’s closest relative, her niece Janie Lazare, whose fat... + Read More