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A salmon for Simon
Par Betty Waterton. 1978
Simon has always wanted to catch a salmon. When an eagle accidentally drops one into a tidal pool, Simon is…
torn between sympathy for the fish and the desire to catch something of his own. Grades K-3. 1978.A quality of light
Par Richard Wagamese. 1997
Joshua Kane is an Ojibway who has lived with his white adoptive parents since he was an infant. Johnny Gebhardt…
is a white boy who is very interested in native culture. When the two meet they find friendship and common ground through the game of baseball. Over the years they become divided over what each believes is truly "Indian." 1997.A parchment of leaves (Southern voices audio)
Par Silas House. 2004
Vine, a Cherokee woman in early 1900s Appalachia, marries Saul Sullivan, a white man. Shunned by her new community, Vine…
comes to realize that fitting in will be far more difficult than she imagined. 2004.A killing winter (Leo Desroches Mysteries Ser. #2)
Par Wayne Arthurson. 2012
Undercover as a homeless man, Leo Desroches, a half-Cree, half–French-Canadian reporter in Edmonton, has his hands full both on the…
job and in his personal life. As he tries to reconnect with his estranged son and fight his urge to gamble, he is consumed by a story that turns into a personal crusade: a search for a missing Native street kid he’s befriended. When the boy is found brutally murdered, Leo explores the depths of Native street culture in a local gang, but secrets soon emerge that threaten not only the gang members, but Leo’s life - and his sanity. Sequel to “Fall from grace” (DC38832). Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence and strong language. 2012.A day on Crocus Hill with Sweetgrass
Par Sharon Williams Franzin, Firmin G Michiels. 2004
Many centuries ago, a beautiful Native maiden named Sweetgrass lived in what is now southern Manitoba. She loved nature and…
taught others to live in harmony with the plants and animals of earth. When she died, the Great Spirit allowed her to visit her favourite places each spring, bringing beautiful flowers with her. Grades 3-6. 2004.Wenjack
Par Joseph Boyden. 2016
An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home…
is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering him a type of comfort on his difficult journey back to the place he was so brutally removed from. Bestseller. 2016.The orenda
Par Joseph Boyden. 2013
"The Orenda" opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with…
a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron nation’s great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family, but they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter and sees that the girl possesses powerful magic that will be useful to him on the troubled road ahead. Bird’s people have battled the Iroquois for as long as he can remember, but both tribes now face a new, more dangerous threat from afar. Christophe, a charismatic Jesuit missionary, has found his calling among the Huron, and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language in order to lead them to Christ. Bestseller. Winner of Canada Reads 2014. 2013.War chief (The White Indian series. #3)
Par Donald Clayton Porter. 1980
Renno once again must leave his Seneca village as an emissary to help the colonists in the colony known as…
Virginia. Then his trials begin as he travels across the sea, besieged by pirates, until he is thrown into a Caribbean prison. Renno's status as War Chief cannot save him in the savage world of lawless whites who have no treaty with his people. Sequel to "The renegade", followed by "The Sachem". 1984, c1980.Tomahawk (White Indian series. #6.)
Par Donald Clayton Porter. 1982
Renno’s son, Ja-gonh, sets out to kill Huron brave Gray Fox, who murdered Renno’s father. But Gray Fox kidnaps Ja-gonh’s…
betrothed and offers her to the French king, Louis XV, as mistress. While Ja-gonh pursues them, Renno battles illness at home. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. Sequel to "Renno" (DC13362). Followed by "War cry". 1982. (The White Indian series ; 6)La photo de famille: roman ((Réverbération).)
Par Marcel Moussette. 2012
" Œuvre de fiction fondée sur des événements réels, La photo de famille met en scène le destin de protagonistes…
dont limage, point de départ du récit, a été saisie sur ce cliché jauni par le temps. Le personnage central de cette photo est une vieille dame, Charlotte Chiasson, la trisaïeule de lauteur, une Métisse amérindienne qui, en 1878, sest trouvée au centre dun drame survenu dans le village aujourdhui désigné par le toponyme Kahnawake. Mais au delà de la vie des membres de plusieurs générations de sa famille, cest tout un pan de lhistoire du Québec du dernier tiers du XIXe siècle et du XXe siècle que raconte Marcel Moussette. " -- 4e de couv.Flight: roman ((Terres d'Amérique) #Vol. 6132393)
Par Sherman Alexie, Michel Lederer. 2008
"Seattle, 2007. Spots, le narrateur, est un jeune délinquant, orphelin depuis l'âge de 6 ans. Mi-Indien, mi-Irlandais, il se revendique…
comme un ciel vide, une éclipse solaire. De sa mère, il a hérité ses yeux verts, de son père, une acné sévère. À 15 ans, il a déjà vécu dans 20 familles d'accueil, fréquenté 22 écoles, et tout ce qu'il possède tient dans un sac plastique. Un jour de haine intense, il braque une banque et récolte une balle dans la tête qui le propulse au coeur d'un étrange voyage dans le temps, à travers les périodes les plus troubles de l'histoire américaine, vers une possible rédemption..."-- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Flight.A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and…
how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind. Followed by "When a ghost talks, listen". Grades 3-6. 2013.Billy Tinker (New leaf editions. Series seven)
Par Harold Johnson. 2001
Billy Tinker works in a mining camp in North Saskatchewan. His anger and the loneliness of his itinerant lifestyle are…
transformed by a sweat lodge ceremony, and the "little people" through whom he renews his connections to the land and his culture. 2001.The mask that sang
Par Susan Currie. 2016
When Cass's estranged grandmother unexpectedly leaves her house and savings to Cass and her mom, it is just the thing…
they need to change their lives. Cass is being bullied at school, and her mom just lost her job—again—so they pack up and move in. Cass finds an intriguing and powerful mask in her new room, and she is inexplicably drawn to it. A strange relationship grows between Cass and the mask; it sings her songs, shows her visions of past traumas and encourages her to be brave when facing bullies. The mask eventually leads her to discover her own Cayuga heritage and leads her into the arms of a community that's been waiting for them. Winner of the Second Story Press Aboriginal Writing Contest. Grades 3-6. 2016.Those who run in the sky
Par Kelly Ward, Neil Christopher, Aviaq Johnston. 2017
After a strange and violent blizzard leaves young shaman-in-training Pitu stranded on the sea ice--without his dog team or any…
weapons to defend himself--he soon realizes that he is no longer in the word that he once knew. The storm has carried him into the world of the spirits, a world populated by terrifying creatures. As he tries to find his way back home, Pitu is plagued by black wolves constantly stalking him, water-dwelling creatures that want to snatch him and pull him into the frigid ocean through an ice crack, as well as beings less frightening, but equally as incredible, such as a lone giant who can carry Pitu in the palm of her hand and keeps caribou and polar bears as pets. After stumbling upon a fellow shaman who has been trapped in the spirit world for many years, Pitu must master all of his shamanic powers to make his way back to the world of the living, to his family and to the girl that he loves. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.The marrow thieves
Par Cherie Dimaline. 2017
In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led…
to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones, and take refuge from the "recruiters" who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing 'factories.' For senior high readers. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2018. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Young People's Literature and the 2018 Amy Mathers Teen Book Award. Winner of the 2018 Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Young Adult Literature. 2017.The evolution of Alice
Par David Robertson. 2014
Alice, a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up, has never had an…
easy life, but has managed to get by with the support of her best friend, Gideon, and her family. When an unthinkable loss occurs, Alice is forced onto a different path, one that will challenge her belief in herself and the world she thought she knew. 2014.These are my words: the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens (Dear Canada)
Par Ruby Slipperjack. 2016
Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to Residential School in 1966. The diary recounts her experiences of travelling there, the…
first day, and first months, focusing on the everyday life she experiences--the school routine, battles with Cree girls, being quarantined over Christmas, getting home at Easter and reuniting with her family. When the time comes to gather at the train station for the trip back to the residential school, her mother looks her in the eye and asks, "Do you want to go back, or come with us to the trapline?" Violet knows the choice she must make. Grades 4-7. 2016.There there: a novel
Par Tommy Orange. 2018
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame…
in Oakland. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather; Orvil has taught himself Indian dance through YouTube videos, and he has come to the Big Oakland Powwow to dance in public for the very first time. Tony Loneman is a young Native American boy whose future seems destined to be as bleak as his past, and he has come to the Powwow with darker intentions--intentions that will destroy the lives of everyone in his path. Bestseller. 2018.Starlight
Par Richard Wagamese. 2018
Franklin Starlight had long settled into a quiet and predictable life working his remote farm. But his contemplative existence is…
turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Emmy, a woman who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a harrowing life of violence. After Emmy has a run-in with the law, Starlight agrees to take in her and her daughter to help them get back on their feet. Over time, he introduces them to the land and patiently teaches them the skills that have allowed him not only to survive but to find communion with the world, and, gradually, this accidental family changes Starlight and Emmy in ways they never imagined. But Emmy's abusive ex isn't content to just let her go. He wants revenge and is hunting her down. "Starlight" was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese's death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. Bestseller. 2018.