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Kiss of the fur queen
Par Tomson Highway. 1998
Abraham Okimasis' native family lives happily in northern Manitoba until his two sons, Champion and Ooneemeetoo, are taken from them…
and sent to a Catholic residential school. There their names are changed, their culture and language are forbidden, and they are abused by the priests who run the school. Once the boys graduate from the school and attempt to live peacefully in Winnipeg they are constantly confronted by racism, and by the fact that they are no longer accepted by their own people. Through it all the shape-shifting spirit of the Fur Queen watches over the brothers to ensure that they fulfill their destinies. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language, descriptions of sex. 1998.Kaya: an American girl (American girl)
Par Janet Beeler Shaw. 2010
Kaya is an adventurous Nez Perce girl growing up before America became a country. When her courage is tested, Kaya…
draws strength from the traditions and legends her elders share. Kaya listens closely, because she dreams of one day becoming a leader for her people just like Swan Circling, the bold warrior woman who is her hero. Grades 2-4. 2010.Keri
Par Jan Andrews. 1996
Upset that her father sold their fishing boat, and unwilling to let go of her family's traditional way of life,…
Keri retreats into fantasies about an old story of an abandoned young girl and a beached whale at Riley's Cove in 1762. When Keri and her brother find a beached whale in the cove, their struggle to save it helps her accept the changes in her family's life. Grades 5-8. 1996.Keeper'n me
Par Richard Wagamese. 1994
When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed…
in a series of foster homes. By age 20 he had ended up in prison, where he got a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. Garnet returned to the reserve and was initiated into the ways of the Ojibway by Keeper, a friend of his grandfather, and last fount of history about his people's ways. Some strong language. 2006, c1994.Jonny Appleseed
Par Joshua Whitehead. 2018
"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats…
to himself. Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Self-ordained as an NDN glitter princess, Jonny has one week before he must return to the "rez"--and his former life--to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex, kinship, ambition, and the heartbreaking recollection of his beloved kokum (grandmother). Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages--and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Winner of Canada Reads 2021. 2018.January, February, June or July
Par Helen Porter. 1988
This novel examines Heather Novak's relationship with her family, her peers and the young man who, as her father did…
years ago, leaves her to face alone the painful process of growing up. Some strong language. 1988 winner of the CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award. For senior high and adult readers. c1988.Glass beads
Par Dawn Dumont. 2017
These short stories interconnect the friendships of four First Nations people - Everett Kaiswatim, Nellie Gordon, Julie Papequash, and Nathan…
(Taz) Mosquito. They are among the first of their families to live off the reserve for most of their adult lives, and must adapt and evolve. In stories like “Stranger danger”, we watch how shy Julie, though supported by her roomies, is filled with apprehension as she goes on her first white-guy date, while years later in “Two years less a day” we witness her change as her worries and vulnerability are put to the real test when she is unjustly convicted in a violent melee and must serve some jail time. As the four friends experience family catastrophes, broken friendships, travel to Mexico, and the aftermath of 9/11, readers are intimately connected with each struggle, whether it is with racism, isolation, finding their cultural identity, or repairing the wounds of their upbringing. 2017.Into the heart of the country
Par Pauline Holdstock. 2011
Eighteenth-century Canada. The Native women who lived at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Prince of Wales Fort, serving as companions to…
the European traders, had their survival bound to the fortunes of those men. Across more than two centuries, the mixed-blood woman Molly Norton, wife of the explorer Samuel Hearne, speaks to us from her dreams. As the story of her liaison with Hearne unfolds, we move toward its tragic consequences. 2011.Indian Horse
Par Richard Wagamese. 2012
Saul Indian Horse is dying in a hospice, remembering the life he led as a northern Ojibway. For Saul, taken…
forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. Winner of CODE's Burt Award for First Nations, Méris, and Inuit Literature. Bestseller. 2012.Inagehi
Par Jack Cady. 1994
"Faith was the thunder, Hope was the wind, and Charity the bright robes of lightning that thunder wore." Thus opens…
the mystery of the seven-year-old murder of Harriette's father, thought an accident at the time. It's 1957 and her mother has just died with the secret of his death. Thirty-year-old Harriette returns to the North Carolina hills to face her Cherokee heritage and its mysticism, and to investigate. 1994.Incidents in the life of Markus Paul
Par David Adams Richards. 2011
1985. Hector Penniac, a young Micmac, is murdered on his first day of work. Loner Roger Savage comes under suspicion…
of killing Hector, leading Amos Paul, the chief of Hector's band, to try and reduce tensions, and Joel Ginnish, a volatile Micmac, to bring his own justice to Roger Savage when the authorities refuse to. Twenty years later, RCMP officer Markus Paul - Amos's grandson - tries to piece together the clues surrounding Hector death. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. c2011Catching the light
Par Susan Sinnott. 2018
The kids call her Lighthouse: no lights on up there. In a small town, everyone knows when you can't read.…
But Cathy is just distracted by the light and lines and artistry of everyday life. She is a talented artist growing up in tiny Mariners Cove and yearns for acceptance. She dreams of enrolling in art school, but getting there will be a struggle. Hutch Parsons is everything Cathy is not: charismatic, popular, smart. Overflowing with energy, he is confident in his plans for the future. But one icy evening his world is upended and those plans are swept away. Now he must face a different life and his own struggle. Winner of the 2014 Percy Janes First Novel Award for an unpublished manuscript. 2018.For sure
Par Robert Majzels, France Daigle. 2013
"For Sure" is among other things a labyrinth, a maze, an exploration of the folly of numbers, a repository, a…
defense and an illustration of the Chiac (French Acadian) language. It is also the continuing story of Terry and Carmen, familiar to us from previous works, their children Etienne and Marianne, and all those who gravitate around the Babar, the local bar in Moncton - the Zablonskis, Zed, Pomme - artists and ordinary people who question their place in the world from a distinct point of view that is informed by their geography, and by their history, politics, and culture. 2013. Uniform title: Pour sûr.Celia's song
Par Lee Maracle. 2014
Drums of change: the story of Running Fawn (Women of the West. #12.)
Par Janette Oke. 1996
A young Blackfoot girl comes of age in 19th century Alberta in this tortured love story. She is chosen along…
with the chief's son, Silver Fox, to attend a Catholic boarding school in Calgary, and runs up against loneliness and despair when Silver Fox shows more interest in white man's God than her. Sequel to "A gown of Spanish lace". 1996. (Women of the West ; 12)Coyote tales
Par Thomas King. 2017
Two tales, set in a time when animals and human beings still talked to each other, display Thomas King's cheeky…
humour and master storytelling skills. Grades 3-6 and older readers. 2017. Coyote Sings to the Moon -- Coyote's New Suit.Birdie
Par Tracey Lindberg. 2015
Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is…
on something of a vision quest, seeking to understand the messages from The Frugal Gourmet (one of the only television shows available on CBC North) that come to her in her dreams. She is also driven by the desire to meet Pat Johns, who played Jesse on The Beachcombers. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2016. 2015.Anna from away: a novel
Par D. R MacDonald. 2012
When Anna Starling flees a dissolving marriage in California to save herself and her artistic career in Cape Breton, her…
life intersects with that of Red Murdock, a cabinetmaker who has recently lost the great love of his life. Surrounded by old ghosts and echoes of those who once lived in this isolated, now depleted community, Anna and Murdock discover that the present is inextricably linked with the past, and that both can lead to moral dilemmas. Includes sex, strong language and violence. 2012.Glass boys: A Novel
Par Nicole Lundrigan. 2011
When Roy Trench is killed in a drunken prank gone wrong, his brother Lewis blames the abusive alcoholic, Eli Fagan,…
and hated grows between the two families of Knife's Point, Newfoundland. Desperate to smother the painful past with love, Lewis marries Wilda, and takes pleasure in their two children, Melvin and Toby. But as he watches his small family fracture, the darkness of the past begins to cloud the present, leading Lewis back to Eli Fagan - and his watchful stepson, Garrett Glass. Strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. 2011.Grey eyes: A Novel
Par Frank Christopher Busch. 2014
In a world without time walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. The Grey Eyes…
use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. With only one elderly Grey-Eye left in the village of the Nehiyawak, the birth of a new Grey-Eyed boy promises a renewed line of defence against their only foe: the menacing Red-Eyes. While the birth of the Grey-Eyed boy offers the clan much-needed protection, it also initiates a struggle for power that threatens to rip the clan apart, leaving them defenceless against their sworn enemy. The responsibility of restoring balance and harmony, the only way to keep the Nehiyawak safe, is thrust upon a boy's slender shoulders. What powers will he have, and can he protect the clan from the evil of the Red Eyes? 2014.