Good Minds is a First Nations family-owned business based on the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario that specializes in Indigenous books and educational materials — especially books by, for, or about First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Native American peoples.
Fiction and Novels
Dream Wheels – Richard Wagamese
Empire of Wild – Cherie Dimaline
Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley
Five Little Indians – Michelle Good
Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese
The Lesser Blessed – Richard van Camp
The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline
Moon of the Crusted Snow – Waubgeshig Rice
Moon of the Turning Leaves – Waubgeshig Rice
Son of a Trickster – Eden Robinson
The Strangers – Katherena Vermette
Indigenous Governance, Law, and Policy
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act – Bob Joseph
The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance – Pam Palmater
Bead by Bead: Constitutional Rights and Métis Community – Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand
Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity – Pam Palmater
Brotherhood to Nationhood – Pam Palmater
Decolonizing Methodologies: research and Indigenous Peoples – Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Indigenous Men and Masculinities – Kim Anderson and Robert Innes
Indigenous Nationhood – Pam Palmater
Life Stages and Native Women – Kim Anderson
Living in Indigenous Sovereignty – Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Gladys Rowe
Native Studies Keywords – Andrea Smith and Stephanie Nohelini Teves
True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change – Jody Wilson-Raybould
Unsettling Canada – Arthur Manuel
Violence Against Indigenous Women – Allison Hargreaves
Indigenous Resurgence, Theory, Culture, Worldview
The Accident of Being Lost – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
As We Have Always Done – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Comparing Mythologies – Tomson Highway
In Good Relation – Sarah Nickel
Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issues in Canada – Chelsea Vowel
Me Tomorrow – Drew Hayden Taylor
The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway – Edward Benton-Banai
Noopiming – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Only Drunk Indians and Children Tell the Truth – Drew Hayden Taylor
This is our Territory – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
To be a Water Protector – Winona LaDuke
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit Folx and Men and Boys: Violence and Justice
All Our Relations- Tanya Talaga
Highway of Tears – Jessica McDiarmid
Keetsahnak Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous – Kim Anderson, Christi Belcourt, Maria Campbell
Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada’s Highway of Tears – Ray Michalko
Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine – Joanna Jolly
Stolen Sisters – Emmanuelle Walter
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls – Angela Sterritt
Violence Against Indigenous Women – Allison Hargreaves
Non-Fiction: Memoirs and Autobiographies
All the Way: My Life on the Ice – Stephen Brunt and Jordin Tootoo
From the Ashes – Jesse Thistle
Legacy: Trauma, Story and Indigenous Healing – Suzanne Methot
Life Among the Qallunaat – Mini Adola Freeman
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground – Alicia Elliott
One Native Life – Richard Wagamese
Stories of the Road Allowance People – Maria Campbell
Taking Back Our Spirits – Richard Wagamese
The Unexpected Cop – Ernie Louttit
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, Indigenous Resistance – Jesse Wente
Residential Schools, Colonial Violence, Trauma & Healing
Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education – Sheila Cote-Meek
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir – Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty
Residential Schools: With the Words and Images of Survivors – Larry Loyie
Speaking Our Truth – Monique Gray Smith
A Stranger at Home – Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
They Called Me Number One – Bev Sellars
Poetry
Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity – Norma Dunning
An Explosion of Feathers — Conor Kerr
Full-Metal Indigiqueer – Joshua Whitehead
Hope Matters – Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb, Tania Carter
River Woman – Katherena Vermette
Scars and Stars: Poems – Jesse Thistle
Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer – Louise Bernice Halfe
This Wound Is a World – Billy-Ray Belcourt
Graphic Novels
A Girl Called Echo (vol. 1: Pemmican Wars) – Katherena Vermette
Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life – Alina Pete
News: Postcards from the Four Directions – Drew Hayden Taylor
#Not Your Princess – Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
This Place: 150 Years Retold – Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection – edited by Matt Dembicki
Databases
Indigenous Peoples and Communities – Carleton U Library Featured Collection