Indigenous Book List - Waaseyaa Consulting.xlsx

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1	Indigenous Book List
2	Compiled by Waaseyaa Consulting
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4	Wherever possible, please purchase these books from Indigenous and/or independent bookstores!
5	Disclaimer: This list is an ongong project and additional title suggestions are always welcome. Any errors or omissions are unintended.
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7			Last Update: May 2023
8	Author	Book Title	Nation	Comments
9	Lee Maracle	My Coversations With Canadians	Sto:lo	Must read!
10	Lee Maracle	Celia's Song	Sto:lo
11	Lee Maracle	Memory Serves	Sto:lo
12	Lee Maracle	I Am Woman	Sto:lo
13	Lee Maracle	Hope Matters	Sto:lo
14	Lee Maracle	Ravensong	Sto:lo
15	Lee Maracle	Bobbi Lee, Indian rebel	Sto:lo
16	Lee Maracle	Daughters are Forever	Sto:lo
17	Lee Maracle	Talking to the Diaspora	Sto:lo	Poetry
18	Lee Maracle	Sojourners and Sundogs	Sto:lo
19	Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	Dancing on Our Turtles Back	Mississauga Anishinaabeg
20	Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence and Protection of Indigenous Nations	Mississauga Anishinaabeg	Anthology
21	Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	As We Have Always Done	Mississauga Anishinaabeg
22	Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	This Accident of Being Lost	Mississauga Anishinaabeg
23	Vine Deloria Jr.	Custer Died for Your Sins
24	Vine Deloria Jr.	The World We Used to Live In
25	Vine Deloria Jr.	Red Earth, White Lies
26	Jesse Thistle	From the Ashes	Métis-Cree	Memoir; Must read!
27	Louise Erdrich	The Sentence
28	Louise Erdrich	The Round House
29	Adrienne Keene	Notable Native People
30	Jesse Wente	Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
31	Robin Wall Kimmerer	Braiding Sweetgrass	Potawatomi	Indigenous Knowledge meets Western Science
32	Robin Wall Kimmerer	Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults	Potawatomi
33	Robin Wall Kimmerer	Gathering Moss	Potawatomi
34	Susan Methot	Legacy: Trauma, Story and Indigenous Healing	Nehiyaw (Cree)
35	Tanya Talaga	Seven Fallen Feathers	Ojibwe Anishinaabeg
36	Tanya Talaga	All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward	Ojibwe Anishinaabeg
37	Jody Wilson Raybould	Indian in the Cabinet
38	Jody Wilson Raybould	True Reconciliation
39	Kaitlin B. Courtice	Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Everyday
40	Ken Carriere	Journeys of the One to Strike the Wetigo (Opimotewina wina kapagamawat Witigowa)
41	Fred Sasakamoose	Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential school to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player
42	Paula Sherman	Dishonour the Crown: The Ontario Resource Regime in the Valley of the Kiji Sìbì	Algonquin Anishinaabeg
43	Bob Joseph	21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act	Gwawa'enuxw
44	Bob Joseph with Cynthia F. Joseph	Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality	Gwawa'enuxw
45	Pam Palmater	Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity	Mi’kmaw
46	Pam Palmater	Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens	Mi’kmaw
47	Alicia Elliott	A Mind Spread Out on the Ground	Tuscarora	Memoir
48	Chelsea Vowel	Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issues in Canada	Métis
49	The Kino-nda-niimi Collective	The Winter We Danced	Multiple Nations	Anthology
50	Thomas King	The Truth About Stories	Cherokee
51	Thomas King	Medicine River	Cherokee
52	Thomas King	Green Grass, Running Water	Cherokee
53	Thomas King	The Inconvenient Indian	Cherokee	Must read!
54	Thomas King	Coyote Tales	Cherokee	Young Adult
55	David Robertson	When We Were Alone	Swampy Cree	Children's Lit
56	David Robertson	Sugar Falls	Swampy Cree	Children's Lit
57	David Robertson	On the Trapline	Swampy Cree	Children's Lit
58	David Robertson	The Barren Grounds (Series)	Swampy Cree	Young Adult
59	Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Christy Jordan-Fenton	Not My Girl	Inuk (Margaret)	Children's Lit
60	Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Christy Jordan-Fenton	Fatty Legs	Inuk (Margaret)	Children's Lit
61	Jay Odjik (Illustrator) with Robert Munsch	Bear for Breakfast/Makwa kidji kijebaa wiisiniyaan	Algonquin Anishinaabeg	Children's Lit
62	Jay Odjik (Illustrator) with Robert Munsch	Blackflies	Algonquin Anishinaabeg	Children's Lit
63	Sunshine Tennasco with Chief Lady Bird (illustrator)	Smile So Big	Algonquin Anishinaabeg	Children's Lit
64	Sunshine Tennasco with Chief Lady Bird (illustrator)	Nibi's Water Song	Algonquin and Mississauga Anishinaabeg	Children's Lit
65	Joanne Robertson (translated by Shirley Williams and Isadore Tulouse)	The Water Walker	Anishinaabeg	Children's Lit/Young Adult/Adult
66	Richard Van Camp	We Sang You Home	Dene	Children's Lit
67	Danielle Daniel	Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox	Métis	Children's Lit
68	Danielle Daniel	You Hold Me Up	Métis	Children's Lit
69	Karen McBride	Crow Winter	Algonquin
70	Joshua Whitehead	Johnny Appleseed
71	Joshua Whitehead	Full-Metal Indigiqueer
72	Joshua Whitehead	Making Love With the Land
73	Wab Kinew	The Reason You Walk	Ojibwe Anishinaabeg
74	Billy Ray Belcourt	A History of My Brief Body
75	Billy Ray Belcourt	NDN Coping Mechanisms
76	Billy Ray Belcourt	This Wound is a World
77	Billy Ray Belcourt	A Minor Chorus
78	Edmund Matatawabin	Up Ghost River	Cree	Must read!
79	Nathalie Kermoal and Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez (Editors)	Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place	Multiple Nations	Anthology
80	Kiera L. Ladner and Myra Tait (Editors, Contributors)	Surviving Canada: Indigenous People Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal	Multiple Nations	Anthology
81	Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson	The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy	Secwepemc
82	Daniel Heath Justice	Why Indigenous Literatures Matter	Cherokee
83	Linda LeGarde Grover	Onigamiising: Season of an Ojibwe Year	Ojibwe (Anishinaabeg)
84	Brian Swann (Editor)	Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of Algonquian Literatures of North America	Multiple Nations	Anthology
85	Therese Marie Mailhot	Heart Berries: A Memoir	Sto:lo	Memoir
86	Cherie Dimaline	The Marrow Thieves	Métis	Young Adult - Must read!
87	Cherie Dimaline	Hunting By Stars (A Marrow Thieves Novel)	Métis	Young Adult
88	Cherie Dimaline	Empire of Wild	Métis
89	Cherie Dimaline	VenCo	Métis
90	Sheila Watt-Cloutier	The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic, and the Whole Planet	Inuk
91	Maria Campbell	Halfbreed	Métis	Must read; first published in 1973!
92	Maria Campbell	Stories of the Road Allowance People	Métis
93	Waubgeshig Rice	Moon of the Crusted Snow	Anishinaabeg
94	Waubgeshig Rice	Moon of the Turning Leaves (sequel to Moon of the Crusted Snow, Oct. 2023 Release)	Anishinaabeg
95	Waubgeshig Rice	Midnight Sweatlodge	Anishinaabeg
96	Waubgeshig Rice	Legacy: Trauma, Story and Indigenous Healing	Anishinaabeg
97	Tommy Orange	There There	Cheyenne, Arapaho
98	Elaine Alec	Calling My Spirit Back
99	Richard Wagamese	Indian Horse	Ojibwe Anishinaabeg	Must read!
100	Richard Wagamese	Medicine Walk	Ojibwe Anishinaabeg