Hello Humpback
A board book that will thrill any baby, toddler or adult! Illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers and written by Rob Budd this book says “Hello” to salmon, bears, and ravens using bold colours and designs.
Nitinikiau Innusi - I Keep the Land Alive
Activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue recounts her own life while documenting “what was happening to the Innu and their land” in Labrador.
As We Have Always Done
Writer, activist and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson highlights the role of resistance in reclaiming Indigenous bodies and lands and calls for “Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state…”
Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese follows his main protagonist Saul Indian Horse through his experience in an Indian residential school to his triumph as a hockey player. In the end Saul reveals how his schooling and hockey are tragically intertwined. Also available as a movie.
Seven Fallen Feathers
Tanya Talaga reveals the systemic racism in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario that lead to the deaths of seven Indigenous high school students. Talaga is unrelenting and unforgiving of her assessment of Canada’s human rights violations when it comes to Indigenous peoples.
Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinsons’ main character Jared has a scary mom and a grandmother that never liked him, but why are the raven’s speaking to him and what do the blackouts he keeps experiencing mean.
Injun
Nisga’a poet Jordan Abel uses the language of old westerns to interrogate and confront Canada’s colonial structures.
People Among the People: The public art of Susan Point
This book is gorgeous exploration of many of Musqueam artist Susan Point’s public installation art. Archivist Robert D. Watt uses interviews and archival material to reveal the story of each one of the pieces in this book.