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Wrist
In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excavation crews are driven mad by a bizarre and terrifying illness. Over a hundred years later, Church and his family show signs of the…
Jonny Appleseed: A Novel
"Off the rez and trying to find ways to live, love, and survive in the big city, Jonny has one week before he must return to his home - and his former life - to attend the funeral of his stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered…
Tags: Canadian, Cree, Indigenous, LGBTQ
Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples
"Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors--and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples--the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs…
Tags: Canadian, Indigenous, Non-fiction
Full-Metal Indigiqueer
Tags: Canadian, Cree, Indigenous, Indigiqueer, LGBTQ, Ojibwe, poetry, Two-Spirit
7 Generations: Ends/Begins (Book Three)
"In 1964, two brothers are taken from the warm and loving care of their grandparents, and spirited away to a residential school, miles from home. James, assigned to manual work on the grounds, sees less and less of his younger brother, Thomas. James…
Tags: Cree, Family, Graphic Novel, Indigenous, Plains Cree, Residential School, Series
7 Generations: The Pact (Book Four)
"As the pain and loss of James’s residential school experiences follow him into adulthood, his life spirals out of control. Haunted by guilt, he is unable to maintain a relationship with Lauren and their son Edwin. Edwin, mired in his own pain, tries…
7 Generations: Scars (Book Two)
"Scars introduces White Cloud, a young Plains Cree boy, in the year 1870, when the last great smallpox epidemic swept through the prairies. After witnessing, one by one, the death of his family from the illness, he summons the strength to journey on…
Tags: Cree, Graphic Novel, Indigenous, Plains Cree, Series
7 Generations: Stone (Book One)
"Stone introduces Edwin, a young man who must discover his family’s past if he is to have any future. Edwin learns of his ancestor Stone, a young Plains Cree man, who came of age in the early 19th century. Following a vision quest, Stone aspires to…
Tags: Cree, Graphic Novel, Indigenous, Series
Seven Fallen Feathers
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were…
Sweetest Kulu
This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic. Lyrically and tenderly told by a mother speaking to her own little “Kulu,” an Inuktitut…
Tags: Animals, Arctic, Children's Books, Indigenous, Inuit, Picture Book, poetry, Relationships
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textures of your pandemic experience

A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.