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Indigenous Voices Bring a Book Club

Facilitator: Feather Maracle

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Description

In this open session, participants are invited to bring a book that is either Indigenous authored, or dealing with Indigenous subject matter - to share. This could either be a great book that one would want to recommend or a questionable book that requires a deeper discussion.

Facilitated by Feather Maracle, Chair of the OLA Indigenous Advisory Council, the group will discuss how to amplify an Indigenous perspective in selecting and weeding Indigenous materials.

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Titles / Authors ~ suggested in the session

• In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Moisener
• A Broken Flute, Seale & Slapin
• Moccasin Square Gardens, short stories by Richard Van Camp
• Barren Lands by David A. Robertson
• The Redemption of Oscar Wolf by James Bartleman
• Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese
• Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
• From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
• Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
• The Only Good Indians by Stephan Graham Jones

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• Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
• The Truth about Stories by Thomas King
• The Eagle Mother by Brett Huson
• The Break by Katherena Vermette
• Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
• The Right to be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
• Take Us to Your Chief by Drew Hayden Taylor
• Mighty Muskrats Mystery Series
• Anything by Richard Wagamese
• Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation by Monique Gray Smith
• Marrow Thieves and Empire of the Wild by Cherie Dimaline

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Titles / Authors ~ suggested in the session

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• Surviving the City by Tasha Spillet
• A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette
• A Mind Spread out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
• Marvels Indigenous Voices #1
• Indigenous Writes by Chelsea Vowel
• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• Inconvenient Indian and Indians on Vacation by Thomas King
• The Absoulutely True Diary of a Part-Time indian
• Medicine Game
• 150 Years Retold
• Johnny Appleseed
• The Trading Tree by me
• Creator's Game
• Crow Winer by Karen McBride

• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
• The Trail of Nenaboozooby Isaac Murdoch
• The Outside Circle
• Stolen Words by Melanie Florence
• When We Were Alone by David Robertson
• These Mountains Are Our Sacred Place, The Story of the Stoney Peoople by Chief John Snow
• Gathering Moss by Robin Kimmerer
• The Bear's Medicine by Clayton Gauthier
• Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Taylors
• Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomas Highway
• Sorry Tawaw by Shane N. Chartrand
• Thomas King Massey Lecture Series
• Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway
• Dead White Writer on the Floor

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Titles / Authors ~ suggested in the session

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• Decolonize your Diet Cookbook
• Me Sexy, Me Funny both anthologies by Drew Taylor
• Modern Native Feasts, A Feast for Seasons and where People Feast, Cookbooks
• Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promotng Ingidenous Knowledge Online by Jennifer Wemigwans
• Indian Love Poems by Tenilla Campbell
• Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sky Paul Seesequasis
• Tales from Big Spirit by David Alexander Robertson
• Education of Augie Merasty
• Tales from the Smokehouse
• Just Pretending by Lisa Bird-Wilson

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• "Elements of Indigenous Style: A guide for writing by and about Indigenous Peoples"
• Strunk & White's "Elements of Style".

Recommended Resources - Website / Reference Suggestions

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• Indigenous Book Seller:
• Goodminds.com
• Book Lists:
• First Nations Communities READ
• The Fold Reading Challenge
• Book club guide for Confederation College's Negahneewin Reading Series.
• CBC Booklist
• The Amnesty International Bookclub
• Indigenous Reads
• UTSC Library Indigenous Book Club
• Ibby Canada Indigenous Picture Book Collection
• Maevel’s Indigenous Voices (2020)

• American Indians in Children's Literature Blog (Debbie Reese’s blog)
• Digital Platforms
• SORA (the school version of Overdrive)
• Digital/audio book collections (MyON and Sora by Overdrive). Each board may have access to myON
• Indigenous authors in Chirp, Chickadee, and Owl magazines for the children's librarians in the group
• Misc:
• Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
• TVDSB FNMI
• CFLA Position Statement Indigenous Knowledge
• Lakehead University Indigenous Education
• CBC Massey Lectures (2003)
• Strong Nations

Recommended Resources - Website / Reference Suggestions

• From the OLA First Nation Public Libraries Page:
• Native and Local Collections Development Policy – Six Nations Public Library Native and Local Collections Policy
• Reciprocal Borrowing – Template Policy for Reciprocal Borrowing – Municipal and First Nations Public Library
• insideOLBA Article – First Nations Collection (2013) by Sabrina Saunders
• UBCIC Resource Centre Classification Plan
• Evaluating Children’s Books for Anti-Aboriginal Bias
• ACCI Brian Deer Classification Plan
• A Guide for Selecting or Weeding First Nation Materials