The First Day

By (author) Katherena Vermette
Illustrated by Irene Kuziw
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction
Series: The Seven Teachings Stories

Makwa has to go to a new school… and he doesn’t want to. How will he face his first day? The First Day is one book in The Seven Teachings Stories series. The Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe—love, ...

Singing Sisters

By (author) Katherena Vermette
Illustrated by Irene Kuziw
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction
Series: The Seven Teachings Stories

Ma'iingan knows she is a very good singer. Conflict erupts when her little sister wants to sing just like her. Singing Sisters is one book in The Seven Teachings Stories series. The Seven Teachings of ...

First Nations Recipes

By (author) Gregory Lepine
Categories: National and regional cuisine
Series: Focus Series

First Nations cuisine draws on millennia of evolution and deserves a lifetime of study. Canada’s First Nations peoples based their cuisine on the rich, regionally diverse bounty of the land, sea, lakes ...

Coded Territories

Edited by Steven Loft & Kerry Swanson
Contributions by Jackson 2Bears & Archer Pechawis & Jason Edward Lewis & Stephen Foster & Candice Hopkins & Cheryl L’Hirondelle & Steven Loft
Categories: Ethnic studies

This collection of essays provides a historical and contemporary context for Indigenous new media arts practice in Canada. The writers are established artists, scholars, and curators who cover thematic ...

Peace Pipe Dreams

By (author) Darrell Dennis
Categories: Ethnic studies

Darrell Dennis is a stereotype-busting, politically incorrect Native American/Aboriginal/Shuswap (Only he’s allowed to call himself an “Indian. ” Maybe. Under some circumstances). With a large dose ...

Celia's Song

By (author) Lee Maracle
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu’Chahlnuth territory.

Celia is a seer who — despite ...

When Everything Feels like the Movies

By (author) Raziel Reid
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Governor General's Literary Award winner: a glamorous boy fends off the haters with dreams of going to Hollywood.

Governor General's Literary Award winner for Children's Literature; Canada Reads 2015 ...

Dreaming in Indian

Edited by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale
Categories: Children’s / Teenage: General interest

A collection truly universal in its themes, Dreaming in Indian shatters commonly held stereotypes and offers insight into a community often misrepresented by the mainstream media. Contemporary Native artists, ...

El Niño

By (author) Nadia Bozak
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Inspired by J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, El Niño tracks the survival of one woman and a young, undocumented migrant as they journey through the no-man’s-land of a remote southwestern desert.

Honey hasn’t ...

Devil in Deerskins

By (author) Anahareo
Afterword by Sophie McCall
Categories: Biography: general
Series: First Voices, First Texts

Anahareo (1906-1985) was a Mohawk writer, environmentalist, and activist. She was also the wife of Grey Owl, aka Archie Belaney, the internationally celebrated writer and speaker who claimed to be of ...