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Series: Melt A breathless adventure story of courage and survival in a warming climate Paperback Ele Fountain 9781782692881 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Jun 06, 2023

A breathless adventure story of courage and survival in a warming climate, from the multi-award-winning author of Refugee 87Yutu lives in a remote Arctic village with his elderly grandmother. Their traditional way of life is threatened by the changing snow and ice, which melts faster every year.Bea is trying to adapt to yet another new school. Worse still, her father’s new job takes up any spare time, and his behaviour has become odd and secretive. On a trip she hopes will fix things, their fates take a drastic turn and Bea’s life becomes entwi... + Read More
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Series: Born of Lakes and Plains Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West Paperback Anne F. Hyde 9781324064480 $25.95 HISTORY May 23, 2023

“Immersive and humane.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries. Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and create protective circles of kin. Beginning in the seventeenth century, Native peoples—Ojibwes, Otoes, Cheyennes, Chinooks, and others—formed new families ... + Read More
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Series: Thinning Blood A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Hardcover Leah Myers 9781324036708 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore and the search for identity in a fierce debut work of personal history. Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects ea... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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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Series: Carving Space The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology 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.For five years, the Indigenous Voices Awards have nurtured the work of Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada. Established in 2017 initially through a crowd-funded campaign by lawyer Robin Parker and author Silvia Moreno-Garcia that set an initial fundraising goal of $10,000, the initiative raised over $116,000 in just four months. ... + 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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Series: 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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Series: I LIKE TO READ Who Will Win? Hardcover Arihhonni David 9780823449484 $21.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Apr 25, 2023

Bear has fast legs. Turtle has a fast mind. Who will win the race? A fun Native American tale that kindergarteners and first graders can read on their own.Ready, set, go! Bear will go over the ice. Turtle will go under the ice. Bear runs fast. But where is Turtle?When a quick-footed bear and a quick-witted turtle race across a frozen lake, Turtle has a secret plan to win! Written and illustrated by Mohawk author-illustrator Arihhonni David, this easy reader based on a Native American tale combines exciting storytelling and easy-to-read language... + Read More
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Series: Reclaiming Two-Spirits Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America Paperback Gregory Smithers 9780807008195 $28.95 HISTORY Apr 25, 2023

A 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 cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them.Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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 vi... + Read More
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Series: 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: 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 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: 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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Series: 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: 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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Series: 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

In 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 delivers a smart, t... + 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: 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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Series: 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: National Native American Veterans Memorial A Souvenir Book Paperback NMAI 9781588347183 $13.50 HISTORY Nov 01, 2022

Stunning views of the National Native Veterans Memorial, the newest monument on the National Mall and the first in DC to celebrate Native military serviceThe National Native American Veterans Memorial marks the first national commemoration of Native American military service. National Native American Veterans Memorial: A Souvenir Book pays tribute to the powerful monument and the American Indians who have served in every major US military conflict since the Revolutionary War, often participating at an extraordinary rate. It pays homage to Indig... + Read More
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Series: 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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Series: 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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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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Series: 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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Series: Possessions Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization Hardcover Nicholas Thomas 9780500296592 $60.00 ART Sep 27, 2022

A timely reexamination of European engagements with Indigenous art—and the presence of Indigenous art in the contemporary art world. The arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America famously inspired twentieth-century modernist artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Max Ernst. Was this a cross-cultural discovery to be celebrated? Or just one more example of Western colonial appropriation? What might a “decolonized” art history look like? Over the last half- century, scholarship emerged that gave the arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native... + Read More
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Series: Indigenous Continent The Epic Contest for North America Hardcover Pekka Hämäläinen 9781631496998 $54.00 HISTORY Sep 20, 2022

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing “New World” as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is an irreversible march toward Indigenous destruction. Yet as with other long-accepted origin stories, this one, too, turns out to be based in myth and dis... + 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 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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Series: A Minor Chorus A Novel Hardcover Billy-Ray Belcourt 9780735242005 $27.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

*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, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture o... + Read More
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Series: Permanent Astonishment Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky Paperback Tomson Highway 9780385696227 $21.00 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 CBCCapricious, 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... + Read More
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Series: 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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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: 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: Poet Warrior A Memoir Paperback Joy Harjo 9781324022015 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 09, 2022

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 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: 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: 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: Unreconciled Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance Paperback Jesse Wente 9780735235755 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 14, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERPart memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples.Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian—a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed Wente’s understanding of what it means to be... + 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: My Lala Hardcover Thomas King 9780735269347 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Jun 07, 2022

A joyful picture book about confidence featuring a little girl making her mark on the world, from acclaimed author Thomas King, and for fans of Ladybug Girl.Lala wakes up one morning and decides that she owns the world. Quick as a fox, she bounds to her box of treasures and finds her shiny red dots — to mark what is hers, because there’s nothing that’s not!Lala’s bear gets a dot, as does her blankie, boots, and even the markers she uses to make scrawls on her walls. When she finishes labeling everything in her room and goes to label her dad-dad... + 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: QUEER IDEAS/QUEER ACTION Reclaiming Two-Spirits Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America Hardcover Gregory D. Smithers 9780807003466 $39.95 HISTORY Apr 26, 2022

A 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 cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them.Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people... + Read More
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Series: Restoring the Kinship Worldview Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth Paperback Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) 9781623176426 $28.95 HISTORY Apr 12, 2022

Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world—necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future.Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Winona LaDuke, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Accompanied by th... + 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: You Are the Medicine 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance Paperback Asha Frost 9781401963507 $23.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 15, 2022

Indigenous Medicine Woman Asha Frost invites readers to learn the healing medicine of the 13 Ojibway moons and the spirit animals that will guide their wisdom journey.The Medicine you have been searching for lives within you. Follow the path of the 13 Ojibwe Moons with Animal Spirits and Ancestors as your guides as you unlock your connection to your own unique, inherent healing power. Through storytelling, ceremonies, and Shamanic journeys, learn to apply ancient wisdom to your life in ways that are respectful and conscious of the stolen lands,... + Read More
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Series: White Magic Paperback Elissa Washuta 9781953534019 $23.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Mar 15, 2022

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: Daughters of the Deer Paperback Danielle Daniel 9780735282087 $24.00 FICTION Mar 08, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this haunting and groundbreaking historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of women in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family’s ancestral link to a young girl who was murdered by French settlers.1657. Marie, a gifted healer of the Deer Clan, does not want to marry the green-eyed soldier from France who has asked for her hand. But her people are threatened by disease and starvation and need help against the Iroquois and their English allies if they are to survive. When her chief be... + Read More
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Series: Fresh Banana Leaves Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science Paperback Jessica Hernandez Ph.D. 9781623176051 $23.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 18, 2022

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working—and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation, Indigenous science is nowhere to be found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse. And while holistic land, water, and forest management practices born from millennia of Indigenous ... + 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: 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 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: 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: 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: Woman Between the Worlds A Call to Your Ancestral and Indigenous Wisdom Paperback Apela Colorado Ph.D. 9781401947439 $24.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Jul 20, 2021

Apela Colorado shares her knowledge and experiences of indigenous wisdom and promotes an understanding between the indigenous and modern world perspectives.A ceremonial journey to reconnect with the essence of indigenous spirituality and awaken to its beauty, power and potential in contemporary society.In this book, Apela Colorado, the inspirational authority on indigenous wisdom, shares her lifelong journey of connecting with the essence of indigenous spirituality and culture. From China to Alaska, Benin to France, Apela recounts her passionat... + 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: 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