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The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Nathalie Gauthier Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Nathalie Gauthier

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

Darrell Dennis is a stereotype-busting, politically incorrect Native American/Aboriginal/Shuswap (Only he's allowed to call himself an "Indian." Maybe. Under some circumstances). With a large dose of humour and irreverence, he untangles some of the truths and myths about First Nations: Why do people think Natives get free trucks, and why didn't he ever get one? Why does the length of your hair determine whether you’re good or bad? By what ratio does the amount of rain in a year depend on the amount of cactus liquor you consume?

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Peace Pipe Dreams: The Truth about Lies about Indians
Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Nathalie Gauthier Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Nathalie Gauthier

Peace Pipe Dreams: The Truth about Lies about Indians

Darrell Dennis is a stereotype-busting, politically incorrect Native American/Aboriginal/Shuswap (Only he's allowed to call himself an "Indian." Maybe. Under some circumstances). With a large dose of humour and irreverence, he untangles some of the truths and myths about First Nations: Why do people think Natives get free trucks, and why didn't he ever get one? Why does the length of your hair determine whether you’re good or bad? By what ratio does the amount of rain in a year depend on the amount of cactus liquor you consume?

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Nathalie Gauthier Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Nathalie Gauthier

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Now repackaged with a new introduction from bestselling author Hampton Sides to coincide with a major HBO dramatic film of the book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

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The North-West Is Our Mother
Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Nathalie Gauthier Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Nathalie Gauthier

The North-West Is Our Mother

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and European.

Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts.

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Dream Wheels
Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Finn Leland Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Finn Leland

Dream Wheels

Dream Wheels is a story about change. Moving from the Wild West Shows of the late 1880s to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas to a lush valley in the mountains, it tells the story of a people’s journey, a family’s vision,
a man’s reawakening, a woman’s recovery, and a boy’s emergence to manhood.

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Son of a trickster
Audiobook, Book, Digital Book Finn Leland Audiobook, Book, Digital Book Finn Leland

Son of a trickster

Meet Jared Martin: sixteen-year-old pot cookie dealer, smoker, drinker and son with the scariest mom ever. But Jared's the pot dealer with a heart of gold--really. Compassionate, caring, and nurturing by nature, Jared's determined to help hold his family together--whether that means supporting his dad's new family with the proceeds from his baking or caring for his elderly neighbours. But when it comes to being cared and loved, Jared knows he can't rely on his family. His only source of love and support was his flatulent pit bull Baby, but she's dead. And then there's the talking ravens and the black outs and his grandmother's perpetual suspicion that he is not human, but the son of a trickster.

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Moon of the Crusted Snow
Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Finn Leland Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Finn Leland

Moon of the Crusted Snow

A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south.

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Split Tooth
Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Finn Leland Book, Audiobook, Digital Book Finn Leland

Split Tooth

A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us.
When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this.

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Firekeeper’s Daughter
Audiobook, Book, Digital Book Finn Leland Audiobook, Book, Digital Book Finn Leland

Firekeeper’s Daughter

Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team.

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The Break
Audiobook, Book, Digital Book Finn Leland Audiobook, Book, Digital Book Finn Leland

The Break

When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.

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Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Issues in Canada
Book, Digital Book, Audiobook Finn Leland Book, Digital Book, Audiobook Finn Leland

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Issues in Canada

In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel initiates myriad conversations about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. An advocate for Indigenous worldviews, the author discusses the fundamental issues the terminology of relationships; culture and identity; myth-busting; state violence; and land, learning, law and treaties along with wider social beliefs about these issues. She answers the questions that many people have on these topics to spark further conversations at home, in the classroom, and in the larger community.

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