13 Best history books like The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet

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The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

By: Jean Teillet

4.36

Format: 576 pages, ebook

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Indigenous Peoples in Canada—the story of the Métis …

If you liked the history plot in The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

By: Bev Sellars

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Bev Sellars's They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. Half-Breed

By: Maria Campbell

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Metis woman's struggle to come to… read more

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3. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

By: None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, clima… read more

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4. Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography

By: Chester Brown

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." -Tim… read more

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5. Season of Darkness (Detective Inspector Tom Tyler, #1)

By: Maureen Jennings

3.96

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

In the darkest days of the Second World War, following the disastrous retreat of the British army f… read more

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6. Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History)

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.26

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s … read more

Similar categories in Pekka Hämäläinen's Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History) book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Bob Joseph's 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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8. "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power

By: Jody Wilson-Raybould

4.14

Format: 304 pages, ebook

THE #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY A compelling … read more

Similar categories in Jody Wilson-Raybould's "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

By: Stephen R. Bown

4.14

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay C… read more

Similar categories in Stephen R. Bown's The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)

By: Tanya Talaga

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the ala… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Talaga's All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures) book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"In Ojibwe and Cree culture, leadership didn't mean power; it meant caring."

-Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)

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11. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

By: Oren Kessler

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more

Similar categories in Oren Kessler's Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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13. Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada

By: Stephen R. Bown

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the enginee… read more

Similar categories in Stephen R. Bown's Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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14. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

4.32

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more

Similar categories in Adam Shoalts's Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • indigenous history
  • audiobook
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16. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Chong's The Double Life of Benson Yu book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • canada
  • audiobook
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17. 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

Similar categories in Andrew Stobo Sniderman's Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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19. Peyakow

By: Darrel J. McLeod

3.75

Format: None pages, Spiral-bound

Following his award-winning debut memoir, Mamaskatch, which masterfully portrayed a Cree coming-of-… read more

Similar categories in Darrel J. McLeod's Peyakow book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • memoir
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet

20. The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

By: Jean Teillet

4.36

Format: 576 pages, ebook

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Indigenous Peoples in Canada—the story of the Métis … read more

Similar categories in Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • 18th century
  • indigenous history
  • audiobook
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21. Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada

By: Harold R. Johnson

4.46

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice… read more

Similar categories in Harold R. Johnson's Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada book and Jean Teillet's The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook

15 Best canada books like The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet

Transform Your Habits

They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

Bev Sellars

1.00

Transform Your Habits

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

Bob Joseph

4.57

Transform Your Habits

"Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power

Jody Wilson-Raybould

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire

Stephen R. Bown

4.14

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

Transform Your Habits

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

3.46

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