{"id":3987,"date":"2025-12-11T13:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/indigenous\/cisce\/?page_id=3987"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:11:01","slug":"indigenous-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/indigenous\/cisce\/indigenous-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Minds<\/strong><\/a> is a First Nations family-owned business<\/em> based on the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario that specializes in Indigenous books and educational materials \u2014 especially books by, for, or about First Nations, M\u00e9tis, Inuit, and Native American peoples.<\/p>\n

Fiction and Novels<\/h2>\n

Bad Cree – Jessica John<\/a><\/p>\n

Birdie – Tracey Lindberg<\/a><\/p>\n

Dream Wheels – Richard Wagamese<\/a><\/p>\n

Empire of Wild – Cherie Dimaline<\/a><\/p>\n

Firekeeper\u2019s Daughter – Angeline Boulley<\/a><\/p>\n

Five Little Indians – Michelle Good<\/a><\/p>\n

Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese<\/a><\/p>\n

The Lesser Blessed – Richard van Camp<\/a><\/p>\n

The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline<\/a><\/p>\n

Monkey Beach – Eden Robinson<\/a><\/p>\n

Moon of the Crusted Snow – Waubgeshig Rice<\/a><\/p>\n

Moon of the Turning Leaves – Waubgeshig Rice<\/a><\/p>\n

One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Plane – Richard Wagamese<\/a><\/p>\n

In Search of April Raintree: Critical Edition – Beatrice Culleton Mosionier and Cheryl Suzack<\/a><\/p>\n

Son of a Trickster – Eden Robinson<\/a><\/p>\n

Split Tooth – Tanya Tagaq<\/a><\/p>\n

The Strangers \u2013 Katherena Vermette<\/a><\/p>\n

Indigenous Governance, Law, and Policy<\/h2>\n

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act – Bob Joseph<\/a><\/p>\n

The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance \u2013 Pam Palmater<\/a><\/p>\n

Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Questions in British Columbia, 1849-1989 – Paul Tennant<\/a><\/p>\n

Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege \u2013 Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O\u2019Brien<\/a><\/p>\n

Bead by Bead: Constitutional Rights and M\u00e9tis Community \u2013 Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand<\/a><\/p>\n

Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity \u2013 Pam Palmater<\/a><\/p>\n

Brotherhood to Nationhood \u2013 Pam Palmater<\/a><\/p>\n

Decolonizing Methodologies: research and Indigenous Peoples \u2013 Linda Tuhiwai Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

Indigenous Men and Masculinities \u2013 Kim Anderson and Robert Innes<\/a><\/p>\n

Indigenous Nationhood \u2013 Pam Palmater<\/a><\/p>\n

Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips and Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality – Bob Joseph and Cynthia Joseph<\/a><\/p>\n

Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture \u2013 Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, Cheryl Suzack<\/a><\/p>\n

Life Stages and Native Women \u2013 Kim Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

Living in Indigenous Sovereignty \u2013 Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Gladys Rowe<\/a><\/p>\n

Native Studies Keywords \u2013 Andrea Smith and Stephanie Nohelini Teves<\/a><\/p>\n

Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture \u2013 Eric Guimond, Madeleine Dion Stout, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis<\/a><\/p>\n

Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers – Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen L. Robertson<\/a><\/p>\n

True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change – Jody Wilson-Raybould<\/a><\/p>\n

Unsettling Canada – Arthur Manuel<\/a><\/p>\n

Violence Against Indigenous Women – Allison Hargreaves<\/a><\/p>\n

Warrior Life \u2013 Pam Palmater<\/a><\/p>\n

Indigenous Resurgence, Theory, Culture, Worldview<\/h2>\n

The Accident of Being Lost \u2013 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson<\/a><\/p>\n

As We Have Always Done \u2013 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson<\/a><\/p>\n

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom – Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/a><\/p>\n

Comparing Mythologies \u2013 Tomson Highway<\/a><\/p>\n

Dancing on Our Turtle\u2019s Back: Stories of Nishaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence – Leanne Simpson<\/a><\/p>\n

In Good Relation – Sarah Nickel<\/a><\/p>\n

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit Issues in Canada – Chelsea Vowel<\/a><\/p>\n

Me Artsy \u2013 Drew Hayden Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n

Me Funny \u2013 Drew Hayden Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n

Me Sexy \u2013 Drew Hayden Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n

Me Tomorrow \u2013 Drew Hayden Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n

The Mishomis Book: The Voice of the Ojibway – Edward Benton-Banai<\/a><\/p>\n

Noopiming \u2013 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson<\/a><\/p>\n

Only Drunk Indians and Children Tell the Truth \u2013 Drew Hayden Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n

This is our Territory \u2013 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson<\/a><\/p>\n

To be a Water Protector \u2013 Winona LaDuke<\/a><\/p>\n

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit Folx and Men and Boys: Violence and Justice<\/h2>\n

All Our Relations- Tanya Talaga<\/a><\/p>\n

A Fire Within: A Father’s Struggle for Justice, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls – John Fox<\/a><\/p>\n

Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada – Memee Lavell-Harvard<\/a><\/p>\n

Highway of Tears – Jessica McDiarmid<\/a><\/p>\n

Keetsahnak Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous \u2013 Kim Anderson, Christi Belcourt, Maria Campbell<\/a><\/p>\n

Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada’s Highway of Tears – Ray Michalko<\/a><\/p>\n

Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine – Joanna Jolly<\/a><\/p>\n

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Seven Fallen Feather – Tanya Talaga<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Stolen Sisters – Emmanuelle Walter<\/a><\/p>\n

Unbroken:\u00a0My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls – Angela Sterritt<\/a><\/p>\n

Violence Against Indigenous Women – Allison Hargreaves<\/a><\/p>\n

Non-Fiction: Memoirs and Autobiographies<\/h2>\n

All the Way: My Life on the Ice \u2013 Stephen Brunt and Jordin Tootoo<\/a><\/p>\n

From the Ashes \u2013 Jesse Thistle<\/a><\/p>\n

Halfbreed \u2013 Maria Campbell<\/a><\/p>\n

Legacy: Trauma, Story and Indigenous Healing \u2013 Suzanne Methot<\/a><\/p>\n

Life Among the Qallunaat \u2013 Mini Adola Freeman<\/a><\/p>\n

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground \u2013 Alicia Elliott<\/a><\/p>\n

One Native Life \u2013 Richard Wagamese<\/a><\/p>\n

Stories of the Road Allowance People \u2013 Maria Campbell<\/a><\/p>\n

Taking Back Our Spirits \u2013 Richard Wagamese<\/a><\/p>\n

Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History – Edmund Metatawabin<\/a><\/p>\n

The Unexpected Cop \u2013 Ernie Louttit<\/a><\/p>\n

Unreconciled: Family, Truth, Indigenous Resistance \u2013 Jesse Wente<\/a><\/p>\n

Residential Schools, Colonial Violence, Trauma & Healing<\/h2>\n

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life – James Daschuk<\/a><\/p>\n

Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education – Sheila Cote-Meek<\/a><\/p>\n

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir – Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty<\/a><\/p>\n

Fatty Legs: A True Story – Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton<\/a><\/p>\n

From Bear Rock Mountain: The Life and Times of a Dene Residential School Survivor – Antoine Mountain<\/a><\/p>\n

Residential Schools: With the Words and Images of Survivors – Larry Loyie<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking Our Truth – Monique Gray Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

A Stranger at Home – Margaret Pokiak-Fenton<\/a><\/p>\n

They Called Me Number One – Bev Sellars<\/a><\/p>\n

Poetry<\/h2>\n

The Big Melt – Emily Riddle<\/a><\/p>\n

Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity – Norma Dunning<\/a><\/p>\n

An Explosion of Feathers \u2014 Conor Kerr<\/a><\/p>\n

Full-Metal Indigiqueer – Joshua Whitehead<\/a><\/p>\n

Hope Matters \u2013 Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb, Tania Carter<\/a><\/p>\n

River Woman \u2013 Katherena Vermette<\/a><\/p>\n

Scars and Stars: Poems \u2013 Jesse Thistle<\/a><\/p>\n

S\u00f4hk\u00eayihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer – Louise Bernice Halfe<\/a><\/p>\n

This Wound Is a World – Billy-Ray Belcourt<\/a><\/p>\n

Graphic Novels<\/h2>\n

A Girl Called Echo (vol. 1: Pemmican Wars) – Katherena Vermette<\/a><\/p>\n

Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life – Alina Pete<\/a><\/p>\n

News: Postcards from the Four Directions \u2013 Drew Hayden Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n

#Not Your Princess \u2013 Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale<\/a><\/p>\n

Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story – David A. Robertson (writer), Scott B. Henderson & Donovan Yaciuk<\/a><\/p>\n

This Place: 150 Years Retold \u2013 Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm<\/a><\/p>\n

Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection – edited by Matt Dembicki<\/a><\/p>\n

Databases<\/h2>\n

Indigenous Peoples and Communities – Carleton U Library Featured Collection<\/a><\/p>\n

NWAC Library Database<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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