5 must-read science fiction books like Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel

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Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By: Chelsea Vowel

4.13

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Spirits Abroad

By: Zen Cho

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more

Similar categories in Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • magical realism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

2. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake … read more

Similar categories in Drew Hayden Taylor's Motorcycles & Sweetgrass book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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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 Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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4. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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5. Rehearsals for Living

By: Robyn Maynard

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Maynard's Rehearsals for Living book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • indigenous
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6. Sheine Lende (Elatsoe, #0)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.29

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Darcie Little Badger's Elatsoe launched her career and in the years since has become a beloved favo… read more

Similar categories in Darcie Little Badger's Sheine Lende (Elatsoe, #0) book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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7. The Theory of Crows

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When … read more

Similar categories in David Alexander Robertson's The Theory of Crows book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • fiction
  • indigenous
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8. 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

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Making Love with the Land: Essays book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • indigenous
  • lgbt
"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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9. Empire of Wild

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.74

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous nov… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Empire of Wild book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • indigenous
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10. Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories

By: Aviaq Johnston

3.74

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

“Taaqtumi” is an Inuktitut word that means “in the dark”—and these spine-tingling horror stories by… read more

Similar categories in Aviaq Johnston's Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • anthologies
  • indigenous
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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11. 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

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • 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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12. This Place: 150 Years Retold

By: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

4.38

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

In graphic novel format, Indigenous writers explore the untold stories of the past, present, and fu… read more

Similar categories in Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm's This Place: 150 Years Retold book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • indigenous
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13. Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-n… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Funeral Songs for Dying Girls book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
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14. 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

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • fiction
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
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15. 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

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • indigenous
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16. Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)

By: Eden Robinson

4.29

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, the sec… read more

Similar categories in Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2) book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • indigenous
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17. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • fiction
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
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18. Hunting by Stars

By: Cherie Dimaline

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A new story about hope and survival. Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions … read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's Hunting by Stars book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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19. 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

Similar categories in Patty Krawec's Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • indigenous
"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

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20. Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By: Chelsea Vowel

4.13

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • indigenous
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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21. Prairie Edge

By: Conor Kerr

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more

Similar categories in Conor Kerr's Prairie Edge book and Chelsea Vowel's Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  • fiction
  • indigenous

16 Best fiction books like Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel

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Spirits Abroad

Zen Cho

4.35

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

Drew Hayden Taylor

4.55

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

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17 must-read fiction books like A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

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The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

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The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

3.46

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