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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When we first meet Ruby, a Métis woman in her 30s, she's a mess. She's angling to sleep with her therapist while also rekindling an old relationship with a man who was - let's just say - a mistake. As we will soon learn, however, Ruby's story is far broader and deeper than its rollicking, somewhat lighthearted first chapter. This is the story of a woman in search of herself, in every sense. Given up for adoption as an infant, Ruby was raised by...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their...
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Language
English
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A story inspired by the Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou finds a woman reconnecting with her heritage when her missing husband reappears in the form of a charismatic preacher who does not recognize her.
Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year-- ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument. Still grieving and severely hungover, Joan hears Victor's unmistakable voice coming from inside...
5) Chickadee
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 4
Language
English
Description
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In his memoir, Jesse Thistle writes about his experiences as a child abandoned by his parents and placed in foster care, his self-destructive cycle of drug addiction, petty crime and homelessness, and how he managed to turn his life around through education and perseverance.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets a letter from her biological father...Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him...While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer...when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't...
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English
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"Ketta Noonan, her mother's child by rape, has been kidnapped by the twelve-year-old's father. Big Joe Noonan, her mother's husband, is glad she's gone. He's always detested the child as evidence of her mother's violation, and kept her hidden away. But Yester Noonan, four years older than Ketta, is fond of his half-sister, even if she is part Chinese, and when his mother begs him to rescue her, he rides out on this quest. Accompanied by his Metis...
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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"Red River Resistance sees Echo Desjardins adjusting to her new home, making new friends, and learning about Metis history. One ordinary afternoon in class, Echo finds herself transported through time to the banks of the Red River in the summer of 1869. All is not well in the territory, as Canadian surveyors have arrived, and Metis families, who have lived there for generations, are losing access to their land. As the Resistance takes hold, Echo fears...
10) Wilderness wife
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When life collapses around you in a single day, how do you continue living? Marguerite Wadin MacKay believes her 17-year marriage to explorer Alex MacKay is strong - until his sudden fame destroys it. When he returns from a cross-Canada expedition, he announces their frontier marriage is void in Montréal, where he plans to find a society wife - not one with native blood. Taking their son, MacKay sends Marguerite and their three daughters to a trading...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, but their tough-love attitudes meant conflicts became commonplace. And the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Linklater, of Anishinaabeg, Cree, and Scottish ancestry, and his wife, Tchi-Ki-Wis, of the Lac La Croix First Nation, lived in the canoe and border country of Ontario and Minnesota from the 1870s until the 1930s. With broad geographical sweep, historical significance, and biographical depth, Making the Carry tells their story, overlooked for far too long." --
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Son of a Scottish trader and an Indigenous mother, Cuthbert Grant became a leader of the Mťis--a distinct group of mixed European and Indigenous people who developed communities along fur trading routes in the 1800s. He saw his people through conflict and change and helped transition them to a new way of life in what is now Canada and the United States.
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A graphic novel about the Northwest Resistance of 1885. In this book, the protagonist Echo Desjarlais encounters the Metis people of the Northwest Territory, including leaders Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont and Mistahimaskwa, in Batoche and other sites of the Resistance. After victories, then defeat, at the hands of the Canadian Forces, Riel surrenders. Echo travels back to the present, where she discovers her own ties to the Métis who fought there....
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the 'road allowance' land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as 'Rooster Town' in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also witnesses the trial of Louis Riel in Regina, Saskatchewan."--
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"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, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and...
18) The break
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
352 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break-- a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house-- she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim-- police, family, and friends-- tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker,...
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