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…
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1. A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
By: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada , None , Phil Fontaine , Aimée Craft
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
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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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"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. 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. 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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5. On the Farm
By: Stevie Cameron
3.33
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Now that the publication bans are lifted, you need Stevie Cameron to get the whole story, which inc… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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
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12. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By: Jesse Thistle
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more
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13. 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
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"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)
14. 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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"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
15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
18. Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
By: Mona Gable
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind whe… read more
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19. Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community
By: Justin Ling
4.23
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce… read more
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20. 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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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
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