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Indigenous Poetics, An Island in the Neutral Sea, and Decolonization Moves

Let’s start with where my thought process begins. I am waiting in a sun-baked parking lot at the edge of the Leamington, Ontario ferry dock. July heat is cooking the rows of cars and trucks around me. Around us, Waabishkiigo Gchigami is lightly rolling waves into shore and forest of sailboat masts and speedboat windshields stretches between us and the shore to the east. You spend a sizable amount of time waiting while in transit to Pelee Island.

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A Reading List for National Indigenous Peoples Day

Fiction

The Lover, the Lake

By: Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau (CA)
A spellbinding novel celebrating Indigenous sensuality; the first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman in French. Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation.When it was first published in Quebec, The Lover, The Lake was heralded as the first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman …

Before the Usual Time

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A collection of words and imagery from diverse voices grounded in the land that explore community in relation to time. Filmmaker/writer, Darlene Naponse, curates a gathering of expression about time that has passed, time that is now and time that comes….

Dreyd

By: Daniel Justice (CA)
The forces of Eromar ravage the Everland, and the skies are filled with the smoke and ashes of the burning woods. Those Folk who do not escape into the far mountains and hidden valleys are driven into the broken westlands of Humanity, where Dreydmaster Vald reveals the full vision of his mad crusade, one that will anni…

Urbane

By: Anna Marie Sewell (CA)
“I should have punched her in the face.” With these words, Hazel’s back. Having survived a stint as a werewolf’s accomplice on a mission of vengeance and redemption, Amiskwaciy’s notoriously unknown detective and self-professed asshole Hazel LeSage returns. The aftermath of violence has left Hazel with questions, woun…

Winter Child

By: Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau (CA)
A visceral, luminous novel about a Métis woman tracing the life and death of her son. One late September day, amid the year’s first snowfall, the winter child is born. He does not breathe. His mother watches helplessly until “at last the baby uttered a first tentative croak like a frog unsure of spring’s arrival.” The…

Pine Bugs and 303’s

By: Ernie Louttit (CA)
Pine Bugs and .303s is the story of two families in Northwestern Ontario. Elmer Wabason, a Cree man and Gilbert Bertrand, a white man grew up three miles apart. Until World War II they had never met. The town and the reserve are separated by the newly named Trans-Canada Highway. A fast-paced story uncovering the bond o…

In Our Own Aboriginal Voice 2

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In Our Own Aboriginal Voice 2 is a powerful collection of short fiction, non-fiction, personal essay, poetry, and original Indigenous artwork by Indigenous authors and artists from across Canada. Featuring the work of established authors such as the late Connie Fife, and up-and-coming Aboriginal authors to watch out f…

Trees

By: Lucy Hemphill (CA)
In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the forest and the quiet sentinels that root together everything. Hemphill’s prose is extraordinary in its combination of s…

Porcupines and China Dolls

By: Robert Arthur Alexie (CA)
“A terrific book that deals with present day concerns.”?Thomas King, Governor General’s Award?wining author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian ?To understand this story, it is important to know the People and where they came from and what they went through.? So begins a haunting story that explores w…

Way of Thorn and Thunder, The

By: Daniel Heath Justice (CA)
The Way of Thorn and Thunder series celebrates its 10th anniversary with a special deal on a three-volume set. Pursue the epic adventure found in Kynship, Wyrwood and Dreyd: heroic fantasy tales based on Indigenous wisdom. The Everland has been home of the forest-dwelling Kyn and the other Eld-Folk since time immemoria…

Two Trails Narrow

By: Stephen McGregor (CA)
Ryman McGregor and Abraham Scott have a lot in common. Both are Algonquin half-breeds unhappily attending St. Xavier’s Residential School in Ontario and desperately seeking to escape the harsh hands of the abusive Jesuit priests. One night, the boys?along with Ryman’s sister?decide to make a break for it, but RCMP trac…

First Few Feet in a World of Wolves, The

By: Scott Mainprize (CA)
The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves chronicles the fictionalization of the year the author spent teaching in Aupaluk (a remote Inuit community on the Ungava Coast of Nunavik). The second outlines, and explores, the history of oppression experienced by the more than five hundred Indigenous nations across northern Tu…
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Grey Eyes

By: Frank Christopher Busch
Winner of the 2015 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature! In a world without time and steeped in ceremony and magic, walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. True stewards of the land, the Grey Eyes use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. With only …

Legacy

By: Waubgeshig Rice (CA)
“Bold, envisioned storytelling. A hands down pleasure to read.” ?Richard Wagamese In the winter of 1989, Eva Gibson is a university student living in downtown Toronto. She’s homesick and anxious to finish her education and return home to serve her Anishinaabe community. Then tragedy strikes and it becomes the Gibson f…

Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a

By: Katłıà (CA)
A vexatious shapeshifter walks among humans. Shadowy beasts skulk at the edges of the woods. A ghostly apparition haunts a lonely stretch of highway. Spirits and legends rise and join together to protect the north. Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katłıà. Set in Canadaâ…

Dreyd

By: Daniel Justice (CA)
The forces of Eromar ravage the Everland, and the skies are filled with the smoke and ashes of the burning woods. Those Folk who do not escape into the far mountains and hidden valleys are driven into the broken westlands of Humanity, where Dreydmaster Vald reveals the full vision of his mad crusade, one that will anni…

Bearskin Diary

By: Carol Daniels (CA)
Raw and honest, Bearskin Diary gives voice to a generation of First Nations women who have always been silenced, at a time when movements like Idle No More call for a national inquiry into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women. Carol Daniels adds an important perspective to the Canadian literary landscape.Taken fro…

Going Back Home

By: Marie Hess (CA)
Written by a Mohawk Institute Residential School survivor, this is a fierce and candid story that reveals the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic time in our history. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools confinements has affected Indigenous communities over several generations and has c…

The Prairie Chicken Dance Tour

By: Dawn Dumont (CA)
Shortlisted for the Leacock Medal for HumourThe hilarious story of an unlikely group of Indigenous dancers who find themselves thrown together on a performance tour of Europe The Tour is all prepared. The Prairie Chicken dance troupe is all set for a fifteen-day trek through Europe, performing at festivals and cultura…

Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By: Chelsea Vowel (CA)
Powerful stories of “Metis futurism” that envision a world without violence, capitalism, or colonization. “Education is the new buffalo” is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains nations suppor…

All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac (CA)
1964 Just as the logging truck rounded the bend, Eddie and Lewis took off running. They made it all the way across and up the bank to the fence before the truck even made it onto the bridge. The driver gave a blast of his air horn and the support timbers creaked when he crossed the bridge. The logs sticking out the bac…

Home Waltz

By: G.A. Grisenthwaite
In 1973, fifteen-year old Qʷóqʷésk?i?, or “Squito” Bob, is a mixed-blood N?e?kepmx boy trying to find his place in a small, mostly Native town. His closest friends are three n?e?kepmx boys and a white kid, an obnoxious runt who thinks himself superior to his friends. Accepted as neither Native nor white, Squito oft…

Neechie Hustle

By: Neal McLeod (CA)
Neechie Hustle takes place largely on the fictitious Broken Elbow First Nation in Saskatchewan. The novel provides a satirical look at the Indian Act and also looks at the emergence of neechie swagger of the late 1960s and 1970s. The rise of Pinokineechie, a wooden Indian, sees the expansion of Chief’s Fried Chicken, w…

The Lover, the Lake

By: Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau (CA)
A spellbinding novel celebrating Indigenous sensuality; the first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman in French. Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation.When it was first published in Quebec, The Lover, The Lake was heralded as the first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman …
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