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• The Berry Pickers

  Peters, Amanda,

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  July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cost of Free Land

  Jews, Lakota, and An American Inheritance

  Clarren, Rebecca,

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  An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government....With deep empathy and clarity of purpose, Clarren grapples with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Whistle at Night

  An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

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  A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Killing the Wittigo

  Indigenous Culture-based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing : a Book for Young Adults

  Methot, Suzanne, 1968-

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  An unflinching reimagining of Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing for young adults. Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rise Up!

  Indigenous Music in North America

  Harris, Craig, 1953 December 20-

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  Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America . More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Hold Me Up

  Gimanaadenim

  Gray Smith, Monique, 1968-

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  An evocative picture book intended to foster reconciliation among children and encourage them to show each other love and support. In English and Anishinaabemowin.

• Home From School: The Children of Carlisle

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  HOME FROM SCHOOL follows the difficult journey of Soldierwolf and tribal elders as they delve into the controversial history of Indian boarding schools, patch together the historic record and personal stories of the relatives who were shipped away,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Council of Dolls

  Power, Mona Susan, 1961-

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  From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indigenous Firsts

  a History of Native American Achievements and Events

  Dennis, Yvonne Wakim,

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  Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievement and Events recognizes and honors 2,000 barrier-breaking trailblazers and history-making events in multiple fields-arts, entertainment, business, sovereignty, education, government,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forever Our Home

  Simpson, Tonya,

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  This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories.

• A Grandmother Begins the Story

  Porter, Michelle, 1975-

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  Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women and bison as they reach for the stories that could remake their worlds and rebuild their futures. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Child Matters

  Webstad, Phyllis,

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  Learn the meaning behind the phrase, 'Every Child Matters.' Orange Shirt Day founder, Phyllis Webstad, offers insights into this heartfelt movement. Every Child Matters honors the history and resiliency of Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Savage Shores

  How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

  Dodds Pennock, Caroline, 1978-

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  A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492.

• Warrior Girl Unearthed

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep. Thankfully she has the other outcasts of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Fear the Reaper

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial killer,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• VenCo

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  Metis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she'll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and irresistible calls out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chaakapesh

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  L'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its famous conductor go on tour in the great northern tundra of Quebec to visit the Cree, Innu and Inuit communities and share with them an Aboriginal chamber opera where white people are taught to laugh, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night of the Living Rez

  Talty, Morgan, 1991-

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sentence

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Living Nations, Living Words

  An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

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  A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project…Read moreRead more of this annotation