Brilliant reads by Indigenous writers of North America
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“When someone dies, everything about them becomes past tense. Except for the grief. Grief stays in the present.” ― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter
“Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere.” ― Tommy Orange, There There
A collection of some of our favourite books by Native American and Indigenous writers - novels, poetry, nature writing, essays, stories and wisdom.
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- There There
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- Orange, Tommy

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- The Round House
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- Erdrich, Louise

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- Ceremony
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- Silko, Leslie Marmon

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- The Only Good Indians
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- Graham Jones, Stephen

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- Love After The End : An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
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- Whitehead, Joshua

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- Jonny Appleseed
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- Whitehead, Joshua

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- Sabrina and Corina : Stories
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- Fajardo-Anstine, Kali

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- When The Dead Sit Talking
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- Brandon Hobson

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- The Break
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- Vermette, Katherena

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- The Marrow Thieves
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- Dimaline, Cherie

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- All Our Relations : Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism
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- Talaga, Tanya

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- Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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- Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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- As We Have Always Done : Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
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- Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake

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- Our History Is the Future : Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
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- Estes, Nick

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- The Artist's Journey : On Making Art & Being an Artist
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- Nerburn, Kent

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- Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers : Poems
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- Skeets, Jake

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- A Mind Spread Out On The Ground
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- Elliott, Alicia

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- An American Sunrise
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- Joy Harjo

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- This Wound Is A World
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- Billy-Ray Belcourt

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- Postcolonial Love Poem
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- Diaz, Natalie

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- Whereas
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- Soldier, Layli Long