Indigenous Books - Adult
All the quiet places
Isaac, Brian Thomas, author
2021
It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch the sunset and listening to the wind in the grass. But when tragedy strikes, Eddie returns home grief-stricken, confused, and lonely. Eddie's life is governed by the decisions of the adults around him. His father returns to the family after years away only to bring chaos and instability. Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house. Only in his grandmother's company does he find solace and true companionship. In his teens, Eddie's future seems more secure, but every time things look up, circumstances beyond his control crash down around him.
Children of the broken treaty : Canada's lost promise and one girl's dream
Angus, Charlie, 1962- author
2015
The death of Annie the Water Witcher by lightning
Whitson, Audrey J. (Audrey Joan), 1957- author
2019
"The book surrounds the death of Annie, who is the water diviner in a small Alberta farm town. It is told from the points of view of the townspeople, and even Annie, as they react to her death and reflect on her life. The town is going through various upheavals: financial, demographic, moral. The church is being decommissioned, which leads to a confrontation between the worshipers and the bishop who is there for the last service, and who has a past with Annie that he must confront."-- Provided by publisher.
Disinherited generations : our struggle to reclaim treaty rights for First Nations women and their descendants
Carlson, Nellie
2013
A feast for all seasons : traditional native people's cuisine
George, Andrew, Jr., 1963- author
2010
Lessons from Turtle Island : Native curriculum in early childhood classrooms
Jones, Guy W., 1956-
2002
A matter of malice
King, Thomas, 1943- author
2019
When a TV producer asks Thumps to assist with an episode about a local woman from a wealthy family whose death was ruled “misadventure,” he is reluctant to get involved. Then the producer dies in the exact same manner, and Thumps finds himself solving two cases. files to try to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, and in the process discovers that she had already started work on another case close to Thumps' heart: the Obsidian murders.
Reclaiming power and place : the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
2019
"The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country. The Final Report is comprised of the truths of more than 2,380 family members, survivors of violence, experts and Knowledge Keepers shared over two years of cross-country public hearings and evidence gathering. It delivers 231 individual Calls for Justice directed at governments, institutions, social service providers, industries and all Canadians. As documented in the Final Report, testimony from family members and survivors of violence spoke about a surrounding context marked by multigenerational and intergenerational trauma and marginalization in the form of poverty, insecure housing or homelessness and barriers to education, employment, health care and cultural support. Experts and Knowledge Keepers spoke to specific colonial and patriarchal policies that displaced women from their traditional roles in communities and governance and diminished their status in society, leaving them vulnerable to violence. "-- Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls website.
Seven fallen feathers : racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city
Talaga, Tanya, author
2017
Over the span of ten years, seven high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave their reserve because there was no high school there for them to attend. Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest, and struggle with, human rights violations past and present against aboriginal communities.
Shame and prejudice : a story of resilience = Honte et prejuges : une histoire de resilience
Monkman, Kent, artist, writer of additional text
2020
Artist Kent Monkman's all-encompassing project takes viewers on a journey through Canada's history, starting in the present and going back to before Canadian confederation. This collection challenges predominant narratives of Canadian history and honours the resilience of First Nations peoples. This book accompanies Monkman's largest solo exhibition to date, which is currently travelling across Canada.
