Indigenous Titles – The Miramichi Reader

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

March 12, 2021March 10, 2021 by Alison Manley

Every so often, Canada Reads introduces you to a book that you absolutely needed to read, it opens the world to a new voice and story and gives a book that needed a wider platform that boost. Jonny Appleseed is one of those books.

Approaching Fire by Michelle Porter

January 16, 2021 by James M. Fisher

Approaching Fire will surely provide the reader with the opportunity to grasp the struggles of identity that emanate from hundreds of years of racism, and the parallels with seething fires that rip across the lands and destroy tangible keepsakes.

Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence by Pam Palmater

December 21, 2020 by Rachel Fernandes

Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second collection of writings by Palmater. In keeping with her previous works, numerous op-eds, media commentaries, YouTube channel videos and podcasts, Palmater’s work is fiercely anti-colonial, anti-racist, and more crucial than ever before.

What the Living Do by Maggie Dwyer

October 15, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish - the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she's living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different?

Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

October 9, 2020October 7, 2020 by Michelle Porter

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.

Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a By Katłıà

August 31, 2020August 29, 2020 by James M. Fisher

Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katłįà. Set in Canada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark presence, a group of teenagers out for a dangerous joyride, to an archeological site on a mysterious island that holds a powerful secret.

The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet

August 14, 2020 by Michelle Porter

Some books are there to offer the kinds of stories that can light on our paths and help us figure out a way forward. The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation by historian … Continue reading

Cottagers and Indians, by Drew Hayden Taylor

August 2, 2020 by Patricia Sandberg

Taylor’s two-person play Cottagers and Indians was inspired by a years-long dispute between cottage owners on Pigeon Lake in Ontario and an Anishnawbe man seeding manoomin (wild rice) in their waterways.

In the play, Maureen Poole, a white woman at … Continue reading

From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 by Michelle Porter

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is.

Messenger 93 by Barbara Radecki

March 28, 2021July 23, 2020 by Gemma Marr

Barbara Radecki’s sophomore novel, Messenger 93, opens with a flutter of information. A mind-bending conversation with a crow kicks off the absorbing thriller, and cryptic messages, hidden clues, and uncertain instructions become the norm in M, the narrator’s, life. … Continue reading

Bill Arnott’s Beat: Independents’ Day

February 29, 2020February 23, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Independent bookstores shouldn’t exist. Brick-and-mortar bibliophile havens are retail models waiting to be business school case studies, “Why These Can’t Work.” TV narcissi could bleat indefinitely as to why they’d never invest in such ventures. But they do exist. And despite every reason why they shouldn’t, they thrive.

Crow Gulch: poetry by Douglas Walbourne-Gough

February 21, 2020 by James M. Fisher

In his debut poetry collection, Douglas Walbourne-Gough reflects on the legacy of a community that sat on the shore of the Bay of Islands, less than two kilometres west of downtown Corner Brook.

Devil in the Woods: Poems by D. A. Lockhart

July 16, 2020January 12, 2020 by James M. Fisher

Publisher at Urban Farmhouse Press and poet D. A. Lockhart is A Turtle Clan member of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and Devil in the Woods (2019, Brick Books) is his latest collection of poetry.

Blue Bear Woman by Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau

September 12, 2019 by James M. Fisher

Originally published in French as Ourse Bleu in 2007, Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau’s book has the distinction of being the first novel published in Quebec by an Indigenous woman. Now, English readers have Blue Bear Woman, a translation by Susan … Continue reading

The Court of Better Fiction: Three Trials, Two Executions, and Arctic Sovereignty by Debra Komar

April 8, 2019January 27, 2019 by James M. Fisher

The Court of Better Fiction is a concise, scathing, and at the same time, sympathetic account of a travesty of justice committed against the Indigenous peoples living above the Arctic Circle.