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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Peace and Good Order The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada Hardcover Harold R. Johnson 9780771048722 $25.00 HISTORY Sep 24, 2019

An urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous people by national bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson.“The night of the decision in the Gerald Stanley trial for the murder of Colten Boushie, I received a text message from a retired provincial court judge. He was feeling ashamed for his time in a system that was so badly tilted. I too feel this way about my time as both defence counsel and as a Crown prosecutor; that I didn’t have the courage to stand... + Read More
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Thunder Through My Veins A Memoir Paperback Gregory Scofield 9780385692748 $19.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 10, 2019

Gregory Scofield’s Thunder Through My Veins is the heartbreakingly beautiful memoir of one man’s journey toward self-discovery, acceptance, and the healing power of art.Few people can justify a memoir at the age of thirty-three. Gregory Scofield is the exception, a young man who has inhabited several lives in the time most of us can manage only one. Born into a Métis family of Cree, Scottish, English and French descent but never told of his heritage, Gregory knew he was different. His father disappeared after he was born, and at five he was sep... + Read More
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Red River Girl The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine Paperback Joanna Jolly 9780735233935 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Aug 27, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, and the detective determined to find her killer, set against the backdrop of a troubled city.On August 17, 2014, the body of fifteen-year old runaway Tina Fontaine was found in Winnipeg’s Red River. It was wrapped in material and weighted down with rocks. Red River Girl is a gripping account of that murder investigation and the unusual police detective who pursued the killer with every legal means at his disposal. The book, like the movie Spotlight, will chro... + Read More
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A Quality of Light Paperback Richard Wagamese 9780385694629 $21.00 FICTION Jul 16, 2019

From the beloved, bestselling author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese’s novel is a moving story of friendship, loyalty, compassion, and justice.Joshua Kane, an Ojibway, has lived since infancy with his white adoptive parents. Johnny Gebhardt is white, and from a young age has had a fascination with Indigenous culture, craving the spirituality and strength he knows are a part of a life sorely lacking in his own. Happily, the two boys meet and form a deep bond through their “invention” of baseball, the warrior identities they b... + Read More
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Series: The Trickster trilogy Trickster Drift Paperback Eden Robinson 9780735273443 $21.00 FICTION Jun 18, 2019

Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, a national bestseller and the second book in Eden Robinson’s captivating Trickster trilogy.Jared Martin, seventeen, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: the temptation to slip is constant (thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom, Maggie). He’s being stalked by David, his mom’s ex—a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And Maggie, a witch as well as a badass, can’t protect him like she used to because h... + Read More
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Where the Dead Sit Talking Paperback Brandon Hobson 9781641290173 $20.00 FICTION Jun 04, 2019

2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who ... + Read More
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Series: Modern Library Torchbearers American Indian Stories Paperback Zitkala-Sa 9781984854216 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 21, 2019

A groundbreaking Lakota author and activist chronicles her refusal to assimilate into 19th century white society and her mission to preserve her culture.Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Sá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering a free education to all Sioux children. The catch: the children must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the reservation, Zitkála-Sá begs her mother to let her go—and her mother, aware of the advantage ... + Read More
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Starlight Paperback Richard Wagamese 9780771070877 $19.95 FICTION May 21, 2019

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the beloved, bestselling author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese’s final novel is a rapturous and profoundly moving story of love, compassion, mercy, and the consolations to be found in the natural world.Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, occasionally venturing into the unbroken country around his property to photograph the wild animals who thrive there. His contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of Emmy, a woman on the run who has commi... + Read More
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There There A novel Paperback Tommy Orange 9780771073038 $21.00 FICTION May 07, 2019

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • HEATHER’S PICK • A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BOOKA contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale) “really is that good.” (New York Times).Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and has come to wo... + Read More
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As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock Hardcover Dina Gilio-Whitaker 9780807073780 $34.95 HISTORY Apr 02, 2019

The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activismThrough the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows giv... + Read More
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The Science of the Sacred Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles Paperback Nicole Redvers N.D. 9781623173364 $25.95 HEALTH & FITNESS Mar 26, 2019

Indigenous naturopathic doctor Nicole Redvers pairs evidence-based research with traditional healing modalities, addressing modern health problems and medical processesModern medical science has finally caught up to what traditional healing systems have known for centuries. Many traditional healing techniques and medicines are often assumed to be archaic, outdated, or unscientific compared to modern Western medicine. Nicole Redvers, a naturopathic physician and member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation, analyzes modern Western medical practices us... + Read More
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Our History Is the Future Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance Hardcover Nick Estes 9781786636720 $35.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Mar 05, 2019

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life”In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anticolonial struggle would continue. In Our History Is the Fu... + Read More
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Disappointment River Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage Paperback Brian Castner 9780771023972 $22.95 HISTORY Feb 05, 2019

In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. In 2016, acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie’s route by canoe in a grueling journey over 200 years later.Disappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration, to a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness—a wilderness currently in the process of profound alteration by the com... + Read More
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Native America from 1890 to the Present Hardcover David Treuer 9781594633157 $37.00 HISTORY Jan 22, 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Chapter after chapter, it’s like one shattered myth after another.” - NPR“An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait…Treuer’s powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation’s past..” - New York Times Book Review, front pageA sweeping history—and counter-narrative—of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history—... + Read More
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Starlight Tour The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild Paperback Susanne Reber 9780735277502 $24.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 15, 2019

A teen's suspicious death, a shocking police cover-up and a mother's search for truth: this landmark investigation into justice and Canada's Indigenous people is re-issued and updated here for the first time in over a decade. In 1990, on a brutally cold night, 17-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared from downtown Saskatoon, last seen in police custody. His frozen body was found three days later in a field outside town. Though his mother pressed for answers, a cursory investigation pinned the blame on the teen himself, dead by alcohol and mi... + Read More
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Killers of the Flower Moon The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Paperback David Grann 9780307742483 $23.00 TRUE CRIME Apr 03, 2018

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • SOON TO BE A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE “A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?”—USA Today“A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” —The Boston GlobeIn the 1920s, the ric... + Read More
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Series: The Trickster trilogy Son of a Trickster Paperback Eden Robinson 9780345810793 $21.00 FICTION Mar 13, 2018

CANADA READS 2020 FINALISTNATIONAL BESTSELLERMore than ten years after her Giller-shortlisted title Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson returns with a striking and precise coming-of-age novel, in which everyday teen existence meets Indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics and cannibalistic river otters.Meet Jared Martin: sixteen-year-old pot cookie dealer, smoker, drinker and son with the scariest mom ever. But Jared's the pot dealer with a heart of gold--really. Compassionate, caring, and nurturing by nature, Jared's determined to help hold his famil... + Read More
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The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated A Curious Account of Native People in North America Hardcover Thomas King 9780385690164 $45.00 HISTORY Oct 17, 2017

An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work.“Every Canadian should read [this] book.” —Toronto StarSince its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Native and Indigenous people in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. This new, provocatively illustrated editi... + Read More
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Testimony A Memoir Paperback Robbie Robertson 9780307401403 $26.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 03, 2017

New York Times and National BestsellerOn the fortieth anniversary of The Band’s legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century. Robbie Robertson’s singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” and “Up... + Read More
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Series: A Wind River Mystery Winter's Child Paperback Margaret Coel 9780425280331 $11.99 FICTION Sep 05, 2017

Margaret Coel takes readers back to the Wind River Reservation one last time in this reprint of the final volume of her New York Times bestselling mystery series.During a blizzard, Myra and Eldon Little Shield found an abandoned baby on their doorstep. Five years later, no one has claimed the little girl now known as Mary Anne Little Shield. But now that she’s old enough to start school, her foster parents fear social services will take her—a white child—away from them.Determined to adopt Mary Ann, the couple hires lawyer Clint Hopkins, who wan... + Read More
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The Reason You Walk A Memoir Paperback Wab Kinew 9780143193555 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 30, 2017

The multi-award-winning and nationally bestselling memoir, with new material, now in paperback!When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. The Reason You Walk spans the year 2012, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future.As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his f... + Read More
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Nature Poem Paperback Tommy Pico 9781941040638 $22.95 POETRY May 09, 2017

A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Interview, and more. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers ... + Read More
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Series: Penguin Orange Collection Ceremony (Penguin Orange Collection) Paperback Leslie Marmon Silko 9780143129462 $24.95 FICTION Oct 18, 2016

The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit, from celebrated author Leslie Marmon Silko Decades after its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature—a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by... + Read More
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Wisdom Keeper One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People Paperback Ilarion Merculieff 9781623170493 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jul 19, 2016

Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbringing on a remote island in the Bering Sea, through his immersion in both the Russian Orthodox Church and his tribe’s holistic spiritual beliefs. He recounts his developing consciousness and call to leadership, and describes his work of the past thirty years bringing together Western science and Indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge and wisdom to address the most pressing issues of our tim... + Read More
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Jacksonland President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab Paperback Steve Inskeep 9780143108313 $24.00 HISTORY May 17, 2016

The Washington Post“The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the future and soul of America.”Five decades after the Revolutionary War, a constitutional crisis occured greater than any yet experienced by the young United States. At the center of this crisis stood two men, former military comrades locked in a stuggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize from the... + Read More