19 best-selling indigenous books like Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography by Andrea Warner

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Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

By: Andrea Warner

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Folk hero. Rock icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things, and Greystone is pr…

"The pecking order comes from the barnyard"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

"The pecking order comes from the barnyard"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

"The pecking order comes from the barnyard"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

"Angry is a way for power holders To dismiss and deligitmize activism and protest"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

If you liked the indigenous plot in Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography by Andrea Warner , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Vi

By: Kim Thúy

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Mon prénom, Bào Vi, illustrait l'intention de mes parents de «protéger la plus petite». Si l'on t… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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2. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

By: Tanya Talaga

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."

-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

3. The Boat People

By: Sharon Bala

4.50

Format: 282 pages,

When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody … read more

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4. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

By: Jessica McDiarmid

4.30

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment o… read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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6. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience (The Regina Collection, 11)

By: Helen Knott

4.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Long-listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize A memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

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9. Corps vivante

By: Julie Delporte

4.30

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

En 1990, Julie Delporte n’a encore jamais vu de butch, mais sa tante préférée chasse et fume le cig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"On entend dire que le sexe est bon pour la santé, mais la moitié du monde autour de moi a été violée."

-Julie Delporte, Corps vivante

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10. 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

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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11. 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
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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13. Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain

By: Charles Leerhsen

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, “unvarnished” ( The New York Times ), “engrossing” ( The Guardian ), “gritty, well… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.14

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. "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

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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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17. 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
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18. The Strangers

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 336 pages, None

From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."

-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers

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19. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • 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

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20. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. 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
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22. 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
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. 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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  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"

-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

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24. 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

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • indigenous
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25. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

By: Sarah Weinman

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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26. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Skid Dogs

By: Emelia Symington-Fedy

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"I can't remember the last time I read a book so brave. Maybe never." Ani Difranco "I fell hard … read more

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  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Namwayut―We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation by Robert Joseph

28. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt

29. 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
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
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30. Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

By: Andrea Warner

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Folk hero. Rock icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things, and Greystone is pr… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Warner's Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography book and Andrea Warner's Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The pecking order comes from the barnyard"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

"Angry is a way for power holders To dismiss and deligitmize activism and protest"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

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31. stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom

By: Khodi Dill

4.57

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice.R… read more

Similar categories in Khodi Dill's stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom book and Andrea Warner's Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

  • nonfiction

26 Best audiobook books like Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography by Andrea Warner

Transform Your Habits

Vi

Kim Thúy

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Tanya Talaga

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Jessica McDiarmid

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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16 Top audiobook books like The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . by Rick Mercer

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

Chris Hadfield

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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