Pemmican Wars

By Katherena Vermette
Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson & Donovan Yaciuk
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Coming Of Age, Canada, Orphans & Foster Homes, Prejudice & Racism
Series: A Girl Called Echo

Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee’s history class turns extraordinary, ...

A Teacher's Guide to Student Inquiry
For Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story

By Connie Wyatt Anderson
Categories: Education, Secondary

A Teacher’s Guide to Student Inquiry for the graphic novel Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story is a FREE resource. The guide provides support for utilizing Betty in high school social studies courses. ...

Det’oni-t’á tai / Three Feathers

By Richard Van Camp
Illustrated by K. Mateus
Translated by Doris Camsell
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Law & Crime, Coming Of Age, Media Tie-in, Boys & Men

Three young men—Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert—have vandalized their community. They are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process. There, the young men ...

Will I See?

By David A. Robertson
Illustrated by GMB Chomichuk
As told by iskwe & Erin Leslie
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Violence, Girls & Women, Aboriginal & Indigenous, General

May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger ...

Fire Starters

By Jen Storm
Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson & Donovan Yaciuk
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Prejudice & Racism, Coming Of Age, Law & Crime

Fire Starters tackles restorative justice on a contemporary reserve in Northwestern Ontario.

When two white teenagers accidentally set fire to a gas station, their Indigenous classmates are wrongly accused. ...

Indigenous Writes
A Guide to First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Issues in Canada

By Chelsea Vowel
Categories: Social Science, Indigenous Studies, History, Post-confederation (1867-), Political Science, Colonialism & Post-colonialism, Law, Indigenous Peoples

Delgamuukw. Sixties Scoop. Bill C-31. Blood quantum. Appropriation. Two-Spirit. Tsilhqot’in. Status. TRC. RCAP. FNPOA. Pass and permit. Numbered Treaties. Terra nullius. The Great Peace…

Are you familiar ...

April Raintree

By Beatrice Mosionier
Foreword by Murray Sinclair
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Coming Of Age, Siblings, Prejudice & Racism

Memories. Some memories are elusive, fleeting, like a butterfly that touches down and is free until it is caught. Others are haunting. You'd rather forget them, but they won't be forgotten. And some are ...

The Stone Collection

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Categories: Fiction, Indigenous & Aboriginal, Literary, Short Stories (single Author), Own Voices, Small Town & Rural

In the Anishnaabe language and worldview, stones are alive, infused with life force or spirit. Although many of the stories are about loss, under that surface they are alive, celebrating the beauty and ...

Taghe ?et'a / Three Feathers

By Richard Van Camp
Illustrated by K. Mateus
Translated by Eileen Beaver
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Law & Crime, Coming Of Age, Media Tie-in, Boys & Men

Three young men—Flinch, Bryce, and Rupert—have vandalized their community and are sent by its Elders to live nine months on the land as part of the circle sentencing process. There, the young men ...

Betty
The Helen Betty Osborne Story

By David A. Robertson
Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction, Social Topics, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Prejudice & Racism

Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. ...