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  • Hold your tongue
    Author:

    Tétreault, Matthew

    Summary:

    Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials

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  • A grandmother begins the story
    Author:

    Porter, Michelle

    Summary:

    National Bestseller. Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize.

    Genre: Literary fiction, Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials, Domestic fiction
  • Empty spaces
    Author:

    Abel, Jordan

    Summary:

    Jordan Abel's extraordinary new book and debut work of fiction, Empty Spaces, grows out of his groundbreaking visual expression in NISHGA.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials

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  • A season in Chezgh'un
    Author:

    McLeod, Darrel J.

    Summary:

    A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials, Bildungsromans

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  • Breaking ground the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe and the unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village
    Author:

    Mapes, Lynda

    Summary:

    In 2003, a backhoe operator hired by the state of Washington to work on the Port Angeles waterfront discovered what a larger world would soon learn.

    Genre: History and geography, Indigenous materials

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      Publisher: Crane Library, Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:00
  • Invisible north : the search for answers on a troubled reserve
    Author:

    Shimo-Barry, Alex

    Summary:

    When freelance journalist Alexandra Shimo arrives in Kashechewan, a fly-in, northern Ontario reserve, to investigate rumours of a fabricated water crisis and document its deplorable living conditio

    Genre: Social science, Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials

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  • A world we have lost : Saskatchewan before 1905
    Author:

    Waiser, Bill

    Summary:

    Sometime during the summer of 1690, in east-central Saskatchewan, Englishmen Henry Kelsey and his Indian escorts walked out of the boreal forest and into a new world -- the northern great plains of

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Indigenous materials

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  • April Raintree
    Author:

    Mosionier, Beatrice

    Summary:

    Life stories of two Métis sisters who suffer the breakdown of family relations and the injustices of the social services system. Culleton has made April Raintree the spokesperson for the Métis.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials, General fiction

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Full Text and Audio
      Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative, Fri, 07/18/2014 - 12:00
  • The winter people
    Author:

    Bruchac, Joseph

    Summary:

    14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prison

    Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Audio
      Running Time: 11:38:46
      Narrator: Robert Ramirez
      Publisher: Recorded Books, Sat, 01/01/2011 - 12:00
  • Canaan
    Author:

    McCaig, Donald

    Summary:

    This sequel to Donald McCaig's Civil War novel "Jacob's ladder" delivers a saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn.

    Genre: Historical fiction, Indigenous materials

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Audio
      Running Time: 39:23:20
      Narrator: Tom Stechschulte, Alyssa Bresnahan, Carine Montbertrand
      Publisher: Recorded Books, Sat, 01/01/2011 - 12:00
  • Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
    Author:

    Bruchac, Joseph

    Summary:

    After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during

    Genre: Young adult fiction, Indigenous materials

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    • Login to access DAISY 202 - Audio
      Running Time: 15:25:00
      Narrator: Derrick Henry
      Publisher: Recorded Books, Sat, 01/01/2011 - 12:00
  • Lacey and the African grandmothers
    Author:

    Farrell Holler, Sue

    Summary:

    Lacey Little Bird loves spending time with Kahasi, an elder on her reserve who is like a grandmother to her.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials, Juvenile fiction

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  • The way it is
    Author:

    Reid, Donalda

    Summary:

    It’s the 1960s – the time for equal rights, peace, and love. But for Ellen Manery, it’s the time to work hard and finish high school early.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials, Young adult fiction

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  • Napi's dance
    Author:

    Greene, Alanda

    Summary:

    In the mid-1800s, southern Alberta was dominated by the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction, Indigenous materials

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  • A Haida wedding
    Author:

    Davidson, Robert

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    Williams-Davidson, Terri-Lynn

    Summary:

    A visual and cultural celebration of a traditional Haida wedding ceremony, exploring its roots, rituals, symbolism, joyfulness, and contemporary significance for a thriving Indigenous Nation.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Indigenous materials, Social science, Illustrated works

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