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Author
Series
Nampeshiweisit volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A young, Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy after bonding with a hatchling -- and quickly finds herself at odds with the "approved" way of doing things -- in the first book of a brilliant new fantasy series. The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations -- until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon's egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days...
Author
Publisher
Nightwood Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"it was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing Urban Indigenous Diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay tries to breakdown...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Lolo Long's niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya "Longshot" Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire...
Author
Publisher
Spiderline
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A chilling horror novel about a young Indigenous woman haunted by the oppressive legacies of colonization. Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. Now living in a shiny new Toronto condo, Dawn is haunted by uncanny occurrences, including cryptic messages from her dead mother, that have followed her most of her life. When the life Dawn thought she wanted implodes, she is forced to return...
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A powerfully illustrated graphic novel for teens about the subject of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Combining graphic fiction and non-fiction, this young adult graphic novel serves as a window into one of the unique dangers of being an Indigenous teen in Canada today. The text of the book is derived from excerpts of a letter written to the Winnipeg Chief of Police by fourteen-year-old Brianna Jonnie -- a letter that went viral and in which,...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better...
Author
Publisher
Royal BC Museum
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histories are a form of contemporary social history and convey important messages about identity, cosmology, social behaviour and one's place in the world. This first-person oral history -- the first of its kind ever published by the Royal BC Museum -- documents a period of profound social change through the...
8) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As a Gitxsan teenager navigating life on the streets, Angela Sterritt wrote in her journal to help her survive and find her place in the world. Now an acclaimed journalist, she writes for major news outlets to push for justice and to light a path for Indigenous women, girls, and survivors. In her brilliant debut, Sterritt shares her memoir alongside investigative reporting into cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, showing how...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Siksika
Description
"Sstsikistsi aakaisinaakio'pa. Sstsikistsi aakaookatakio'pa. Sstsikistsi aakaiinihkio'pa. Sstsikistsi Naaahsa aakaiitsitapiitsinikiwa. Ma iinnakakiikoan aitsinikatooma mii maahsi manistsasiinakihp ki manistaikimmostiihpia."--Back cover.
"Naaahsa says art is a language everyone understands.... Sometimes we draw. Sometimes we bead. Sometimes we sing. Sometimes Naaahsa tells stories in Blackfoot. A young girl celebrates her grandmother's art, and the...
11) Poūkahangatus
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The American debut of an acclaimed New Zealand poet as she explores her identity as a 21st-century indigenous woman"--
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1930s Bolivia, self-described Anarchist Cholas form a libertarian trade union. In the Northern Highlands of Vietnam, the songs of one girl's youth lead her to a life of activism. In the Philippines, female elders from Kalinga blaze a trail when pushed into an impromptu protest. Equally striking accounts from, Chile, Ecuador, India, Nepal, and Peru weave a tapestry of trauma and triumph, shedding light on not-too-distant histories otherwise overlooked....
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