Ducks Redux is a YA RomCom about Maeve Wong, an environmental science graduate who gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons who plan to take over the government of Oil Land. One love of Maeve’s...
Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection
The Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection was launched by the Alberta libraries in partnership with the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA). It was launched in 2019, and features titles from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba-based book publishers. The first of its kind in Canada, the Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection increases access to stories by Indigenous authors, and writings about Indigenous Peoples and Culture.
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Author:Evans, C.D., Shyba, L. M.Summary: - Author:Johnson, HaroldSummary:
In a passionate call to action, Harold Johnson, Cree trapper and Crown Prosecutor, examines alcohol--its history, its myths, and its devastating impact on his community. Confronting what he calls a crime against humanity--one in every...
- Author:Flett, LeonardSummary:
This is a story about the fur trade and First Nations, and the development of northern Canada, seen and experienced not only through Leonard Flett's eyes, but also through the eyes of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. The...
- Author:Groulx, David A.Summary:
"With a sre voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabe writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding of colonial pasts and presents...
- Author:Wilson, GarrettSummary:
"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched." -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning. "Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's Land to Canada, the Manitoba...
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In the decades since the passing of the Pamajewon ruling in Canada and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in the United States, gaming has come to play a crucial role in how Indigenous peoples are represented and read by both Indians and...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
Stories are medicine. During a time of heightened isolation, this bestselling author shares what he knows about the power of storytelling--and offers some of his own favourite stories from Elders, friends, and family. Gathering around a...
- Author:Gehl, LynnSummary:
A follow-up to Claiming Anishinaabe, Gehl v Canada is the story of Lynn Gehl's lifelong journey of survival against the nation-state's constant genocidal assault against her existence. While Canada set up its colonial powers-including...
- Author:Muswagon, ZacharySummary:
The Compliance Officer for a First Nations Band has been shot in the head and left for dead. Unable to cross over to the great huntings grounds Billy ghostkeeper muct stay and discover who murdered him and why. Through strange, funny...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and is working to manufacture and weaponize the virus that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are dying. The community has...
- Author:Barinova, Veronika, Mitchell, BrandonSummary:
When Mali meets Puug, she's surprised to discover he's wearing her stolen hair clip. If she helps him find what he needs, she has a chance of getting it back. Join Mali and Puug as they race to keep one step ahead of an...
- Author:Tegenkamp, Diana HopeSummary:
In this stellar debut collection by Métis poet Diana Hope Tegenkamp we find solace and outrage, grief and tenderness, bewilderment and beauty, all "entangled in hope and dreaming." After many losses-of a mother known and loved, of a...
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
In Richard Van Camp's fictionalized north anything can happen and yet each story is rooted in a vivid contemporary reality. The stories offer a potent mix tape of tropes from science fiction, horror, Western and Aboriginal traditions....
- Author:Hollihan, TonySummary:
A tribute to the courageous chiefs and warriors who fought to protect their people and preserve the Native way of life in the face of European expansion across North America: Sequoyah, a Cherokee who invented a system of writing for his...
- Author:Zenko, Darren, Hollihan, TonySummary:
More chronicles of renowned Indigenous leaders who grappled with the catastrophic arrival of foreigners on their soil and of the measures they took to protect their people.
- Author:White, SusanSummary:
Franny Callaghan is the awkward middle child in a family with a mother who has locked herself away in her room, and a father and younger sister who travel most of the time, training her sister to be an Olympic speed skater. Franny's...
- Author:Dupuis,Jenny KaySummary:
On a visit to her granny, Maggie learns about perseverance through her first beading project. As they work, Granny shares how beading helped her stay connected to her Anishinaabe culture when she lost her Indian status. In this...
- Author:Tétreault, MatthewSummary:
Upon learning his great-uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run-ins with local...
- Author:Schweitzer, DonSummary:
How can churches carry out their commitment to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples? Honouring the Declaration provides academic resources to help The United Church of Canada and other Canadian...
- Author:Manuel, VeraSummary:
This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the...
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