Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies)
By: Daniel Heath Justice
4.49
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary p…
Want to Read $ 9.99"We’re stubborn people, queer folks and Indians and queer Indians alike. Green shoots rise quickly from burnt-over earth—and rarely, if ever, in solitude."-Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies)
"We’re stubborn people, queer folks and Indians and queer Indians alike. Green shoots rise quickly from burnt-over earth—and rarely, if ever, in solitude."-Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies)
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1. Green Grass, Running Water
By: Thomas King
4.03
Format: 469 pages, Paperback
Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Nativ… read more
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- literature
- native american
- indigenous
"Look,"-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
"The Lone Ranger, Ishmael, Robinson Crusoe, and Hawkeye stood in the parking lot of the Blossom Lodge. Beyond the concrete and the asphalt and the cars, beneath the deep curve of the sky, the prairies…"-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
"Every July, when Eli was growing up, his mother would close the cabin and move the family to the Sun Dance. Eli would help the other men set up the tepee, and then he and Norma and Camelot would run …"-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
2. Ru
By: Kim Thúy
4.20
Format: None pages, Broche
Une femme voyage a travers le desordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or a Saigon, l'arri… read more
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3. Whereas
By: Layli Long Soldier
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
4. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
5. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
4.25
Format: None pages,
From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… read more
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6. Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)
By: Eden Robinson
3.82
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classi… read more
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"He wasn't going to be alone after she died, but the world was going to be a lonelier place without her."-Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)
7. Fools Crow
By: James Welch
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Set in Montana shortly after the Civil War, this novel tells of White Man's Dog (later known as Foo… read more
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8. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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9. Crazy Brave
By: Joy Harjo
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one… read more
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10. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
By: Thomas King
4.65
Format: None pages, ebook
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more
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11. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
By: Thomas King
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous." In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist … read more
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12. 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
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13. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
3.85
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more
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- indigenous
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
14. 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
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- indigenous
15. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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- literature
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
16. 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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- nonfiction
- 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
17. 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
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- indigenous
18. 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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- 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
19. 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
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- indigenous
20. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- indigenous
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
21. Walking in Two Worlds (The Floraverse)
By: Wab Kinew
3.51
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy debu… read more
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- indigenous
22. 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
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- native american
- indigenous
23. Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3)
By: Eden Robinson
4.12
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, from the bestselling a… read more
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- indigenous
24. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- indigenous
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
25. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.18
Format: 120 pages, ebook
Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more
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- indigenous
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
26. 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
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- indigenous
27. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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- indigenous
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
28. Riding the Trail of Tears (Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives)
By: Blake M. Hausman
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
Sherman Alexie meets William Gibson. Louise Erdrich meets Franz Kafka. Leslie Marmon Silko meets Ph… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
29. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies)
By: Daniel Heath Justice
4.49
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary p… read more
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- race
- history
- literature
- theory
- native american
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- education
- books about books
- literary criticism
"We’re stubborn people, queer folks and Indians and queer Indians alike. Green shoots rise quickly from burnt-over earth—and rarely, if ever, in solitude."-Daniel Heath Justice, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies)
30. Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
By: Gregory Younging
4.61
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works abou… read more
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- race
- history
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- education
31. Monkey Beach
By: Eden Robinson
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
