14 must-read indigenous books like Black Water by David Alexander Robertson

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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 …

If you liked the indigenous plot in Black Water by David Alexander Robertson , here is a list of 14 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

Similar categories in Richard Wagamese's Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
  • 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. The Break

By: Katherena Vermette

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more

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4. 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 David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • canada
  • audiobook
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5. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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6. Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine

By: Joanna Jolly

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, and the detective determined to… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Jolly's Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. "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 David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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 David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • 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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9. 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

Similar categories in Jesse Wente's Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Probably Ruby

By: Lisa Bird-Wilson

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable d… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Bird-Wilson's Probably Ruby book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • audiobook
  • native american
  • canada
  • indigenous
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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

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • 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

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more

Similar categories in Brian Thomas Isaac's All the Quiet Places book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

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

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 David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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 David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • audiobook
  • native american
  • canada
  • indigenous
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

Similar categories in Clayton Thomas-Muller's Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Mañanaland

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan

4.08

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

Maximiliano Córdoba loves stories, especially the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeepe… read more

Similar categories in Pam Muñoz Ryan's Mañanaland book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

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

18. 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

Similar categories in Brandi Morin's Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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 David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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20. 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

Similar categories in David Alexander Robertson's Black Water book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Known to the Victim by K.L. Armstrong

21. Known to the Victim

By: K.L. Armstrong

4.05

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

From nationally bestselling author K.L. Armstrong comes a new heartstopping, propulsive, race-again… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Armstrong's Known to the Victim book and David Alexander Robertson's Black Water

  • canada
  • audiobook

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Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

Richard Wagamese

4.01

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

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Joanna Jolly

4.19

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Éric Chacour

4.43

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Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

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