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Shin-Chi's Canoe
This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they…
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…
Stolen Words
The story of the beautiful relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks her grandfather how to say something in his language – Cree – he admits that his language was stolen from him when he was a boy. The little girl then…
The Marrow Thieves
This Zine was created as part of London Public Library's 2019 One Book One London program, "Storytelling through Zines", facilitated by Jenna Rose Sands, a Cree Ojibwe artist who lives in London,
Tags: Zine
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy.
Mashkawaji (they/them) lies…
Mashkawaji (they/them) lies…
This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool…
The Break
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…
In a series of…
Pemmican Wars: A Girl Called Echo, Vol. 1
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.…
Tags: Canada, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Indigenous, Metis, Sasksatchewan, Young Adult
Introducing... Atrocities Against Indigenous Canadians for Dummies
Issue 2: MMIWGIssue 2 of this zine series introduces the current national crisis of thousands of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Issue 3: The Sixties ScoopIssue 3 of this zine series
Witness, I Am
Witness, I Am is divided into three gripping sections of new poetry from one of Canada's most recognized poets. The first part of the book, "Dangerous Sound," contains contemporary themed poems about identity and belonging, undone and rendered into…
Tags: Canada, Cree, Indigenous, Metis, poetry
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7 Wonders
Players: 2-7
Playing time: 30 minutes
Ages: 10+
Description: Lead one of the seven great cities of the Ancient world. Exploit the natural…