Indigenous Fiction & Poetry

Ragged company

By Wagamese, Richard, author | 2009

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Monkey beach

By Robinson, Eden, author | 2000

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Keeper'n me

By Wagamese, Richard, author | 2006

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When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city. Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. The sudden communication from his past spurs him to return to the reserve following his release from jail. Deciding to stay awhile, his life is changed completely as he comes to discover his sense of place, and of self. While on the reserve, Garnet is initiated into the ways of the Ojibway -- both ancient and modern -- by Keeper, a friend of his grandfather, and last fount of history about his people's ways.

Motorcycles & sweetgrass : a novel

By Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962- author | 2010

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Medicine walk

By Wagamese, Richard, author | 2015

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The break

By Vermette, Katherena, 1977- author | 2016

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Son of a trickster

By Robinson, Eden, author | 2017

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The marrow thieves

By Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author | 2018

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River woman

By Vermette, Katherena, 1977- author | 2018

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Split tooth

By Tagaq, 1975- author | 2019

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Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them. A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this. Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love remains. Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget.

This wound is a world : poems

By Belcourt, Billy-Ray, author | 2017

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House made of dawn

By Momaday, N. Scott, 1934- | 2018

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Empire of wild

By Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author | 2019

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Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year--ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One terrible, hungover morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher named Eugene Wolff. By the time she staggers into the tent, the service is over. But as she is about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice. She turns, and there Victor is. The same face, the same eyes, the same hands. But his hair is short and he's wearing a suit and he doesn't recognize her at all. No, he insists, she's the one suffering a delusion: he's the Reverend Wolff and his only mission is to bring his people to Jesus. Except that, as Joan soon discovers, that's not all the enigmatic Wolff is doing.

Chasing painted horses a novel

By Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962- author | 2020

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Five little Indians

By Good, Michelle, author | 2020

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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.

You are enough : love poems for the end of the world

By Sumac, Smokii, 1988-, author | 2018

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Hunting by stars

By Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author | 2021

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The berry pickers

By Peters, Amanda, author | 2023

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