6 must-read social justice books like True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Cover of True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould

True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change

By: Jody Wilson-Raybould

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet , a groundbreaking a…

If you liked the social justice plot in True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese

1. Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

By: Richard Wagamese

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook

2. The Reason You Walk

By: Wab Kinew

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Hardcover

A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic Aboriginal star. When his father … read more

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3. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Jody Wilson-Raybould's True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

4. A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

Cover of 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph

5. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

By: Bob Joseph

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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6. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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7. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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8. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir by Helen Knott

9. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

Cover of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente

10. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

4.39

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
Cover of Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

12. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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13. Permanent Astonishment

By: Tomson Highway

4.20

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
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14. True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change

By: Jody Wilson-Raybould

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet , a groundbreaking a… read more

Similar categories in Jody Wilson-Raybould's True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change book and Jody Wilson-Raybould's True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change

  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • indigenous history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

15. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman

4.54

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more

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  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing by Clayton Thomas-Muller

16. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

By: Clayton Thomas-Muller

3.65

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more

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  • canada
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  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising by Brandi Morin

17. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

By: Brandi Morin

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi M… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec

18. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Cover of Namwayut―We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation by Robert Joseph

19. Namwayut―We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation

By: Robert Joseph

4.47

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Re… read more

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  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt

20. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

By: Angela Sterritt

4.51

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous history
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21. Black Water

By: David Alexander Robertson

4.17

Format: 288 pages, ebook

“An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open and with a perspective widened to … read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
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19 must-read audiobook books like True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Transform Your Habits

Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

Richard Wagamese

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

A Grandmother Begins the Story

Michelle Porter

3.84

Transform Your Habits

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

Bob Joseph

4.57

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19 Top audiobook books like Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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