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• Wandering Stars

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, and forced to learn English and Christianity by the man who will found the Carlisle Indian School.

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  As their tenuous links to the southern world wink out in a remote northern First Nations community, Evan and his community learn to rely again on the old ways to survive. But a wendigo southerner arrives to threaten everything.

• A Perfect Likeness

  Two Novellas

  Wagamese, Richard,

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  This volume contains two novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing. Both stories follow the lives of young artists who have dreams for a better future.

• Jonny Appleseed

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  A Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reservation.

• JAJ

  a Haida Manga

  Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll,

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  Visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings to life the tumultuous history of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and the early colonization by the Europeans of the northern West Coast.

• The Berry Pickers

  a Novel

  Peters, Amanda,

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  Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.

• A Girl Called Echo. Vol. 1, Pemmican Wars

  Vermette, Katherena, 1977-

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  A teenage girl travels through time to discover the history of the Métis people, as well as her own identity.

• Bad Cree

  a Novel

  Johns, Jessica,

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  A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister’s untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow’s head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers.

• Namwayut

  We Are All One : a Pathway to Reconciliation

  Joseph, Robert, Chief,

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  Drawing on lessons learned along his path from residential school to the leader of Reconciliation Canada, Chief Robert Joseph provides a map for collective change and transformation.

• Call Me Indian

  From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player

  Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020,

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  Sasakamoose became an NHL player after being taken away from his family at 7-years-old and upon leaving the NHL, he went on to become a band councillor, serve as Chief, and establish athletic programs for kids.

• Noopiming

  the Cure for White Ladies

  Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971-

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  Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters who connect them to the world.

• Living Nations, Living Words

  An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

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  A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today.

• Five Little Indians

  Good, Michelle,

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  Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, five teenagers are released into an unknowable world with no support or families to guide them.

• The Marrow Thieves

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  In this futuristic dystopian novel for teens, the Indigenous people of North America are on the run in a fight for survival.

• Firekeeper's Daughter

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.

• Borders

  King, Thomas, 1943-

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  This story follows a boy and his mother as they are caught in limbo between countries after refusing to identify as either American or Canadian.

• Heart Berries

  a Memoir

  Mailhot, Terese Marie,

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  Guileless and refreshingly honest, Terese Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the reservation.

• Fatty Legs

  a True Story

  Jordan-Fenton, Christy,

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  The story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school.

• Blood Snow

  Okpik, Dg Nanouk,

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  dg okpik’s relationship to language, within his poetry, is an access point for understanding larger kinships between animals, peoples, traditions, histories, ancestries, and identities.

• Adult Summer Reading 2025

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  Visit our webpage to learn more about the Adult Summer Reading Program, which runs from June 1 to August 31.