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A rancher is, consumed to take more and more land, driven by the memory of his father. A hunger for power in the province's capital may result in a dam flooding the area. Then, a gunshot changes everything.
An unforgiving winter envelops young Noah Hanlon, on the run after being, charged with murder. Searching endless terrain for the real killer, he reconnects with his Indigenous heritage. Revelations point in unexpected directions. A whiff of perfume,...
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El lento silbido de los sables es una rigurosa mezcla de historia y ficción. Patricio Manns desnuda en esta nueva novela histórica dos temas particulares: el choque de culturas inserto en una guerra bestial y las relaciones inevitablemente envenenadas que esta guerra —conocida como "Pacificación de la Araucanía"— promueve entre las partes en conflicto. Las páginas oscuras de esta epopeya saltan a la luz y penetran en las razones del sempiterno...
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Basking in the golden warmth from their pit fire, Spirit Bear and his pregnant wife, Kaitlin, share a lazy morning together. It was spring, and a nasty storm was rolling in. It was a perfect time for staying inside and sharing.Kaitlin, still fairly new to the Oglala Sioux people's ways, was curious about her husband's past. Should their child be born a boy, Kaitlin wanted to know what it will be like for their son to grow up in the shadow of his father,...
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A young man with a questionable past must survive a nightmare of terror and torture in this dark and powerful thriller from one of Canada's most acclaimed contemporary authors The Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, Canada, is about as close to urban hell as you can get in the Western Hemisphere. Yet in this cauldron of drugs, shattered dreams, and extreme violence, Tom Bauer and his girlfriend, Paulie-both ex-junkies and parents of baby Melody-are trying...
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Nouvelles de Norma Dunning
Traduit de l'anglais par Daniel Grenier
Annie Muktuk, les hommes la désirent et se l'arrachent. Elle règne avec sa beauté légendaire et sa gloire chimérique sur le petit monde d'Igloolik. Des visages hauts en couleur prennent aux tripes. Josephee, se fiant à la ruse des Esprits, amène sa femme Elipsee sur le territoire dans l'Arctique pour la guérir du cancer. Husky, agent de la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson, vit...
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In her first historical novel, Totems of September, Emmy-nominated author Robin Ladue uses her Native American storytelling tradition of circles on circles and lives on lives. It is interspersed with the culture of the Northwest and Plains tribes through the use of animal legend and myths. The juxtaposition of Wyoming's Devils Tower and the tragedy of September 11 brings to light little-known Native American history, as well as current themes: US...
87) Blue Bear Woman
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Blue Bear Woman or Ourse bleueis the first novel in Quebec written by an Indigenous woman. The story of a young Cree woman's search for her roots and identity, this is also the author's debut novel, originally published in 2007, and it will be her second book to be published in English. The novel has been described as a "texte de resistance", showing contemporary Indigenous life and the impact on the Cree of the building of the Eastmain dam in northern...
88) God's Country 2
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Orphaned at an early age, eleven-year-old Carrie Camden gets adopted and comes to the Rocky Mountains in 1829, where she is once again orphaned by an Indian attack. She is assigned to mountain man Garrett Carter for her care.
Wise beyond her years and tough as nails, the devious "bad kid" makes an indelible impression on Jake, Right Hand, Fat, Dan, and the other mountain men. The poor Choteau brothers become the object of her wrath, and pay a never...
90) The War Canoe
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17 year-old Mickey Church, a Tlingit Indian, didn't see anything special about his hometown. Perched on an island in Southeast Alaska, the small town of Wrangell was shabby, wet, and isolated. Mickey spent his time acting out, lighting up, and practicing his unstudied air of casual defiance. But when Dr. Bernet, the skinny, tenor-voiced new teacher gave his first history lecture, something inside Mickey shifted. Those old stories about the Tlingit...
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Faced with a constant stream of news reports of standoffs and confrontations, Canada's “reconciliation project” has obviously gone off the rails. In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it.
Widely known as a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights, McIvor reports from the front lines of legal and political...
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A compelling story with powerful characters set in the Northern Territory of Australia. Culminating on top of the sacred Gujigari Rock of the Wainanda clan...who will lose their nerve first?
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Manggilulu: a young up and coming indigenous leader, too young to be catapulted into a position of intrigue, where his wit and passion clash with the white administrators. Was he guilty of the murder that he was apprehended for?
Livvy: an anthropologist,...
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In this novel, first published in 1891, young, idealistic Genevieve Weir arrives in Indian Territory on a mission to bring "civilization" to the Muscogee people. There she meets Wynema, a young Muscogee girl who shares the traditions and beliefs of her tribe. Together, these young women come of age during a time in American history marred by racism, sexism, and brutality toward Native Americans.
A story about love's power to overcome differences,...
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"Este personaje terrible, que sobrevuela la historia de Tierra del Fuego todavía hoy, con biografías, fotos y objetos en los museos, es Iuliu Popper (1857-1893), un rumano culto, solitario y amoral, que recorrió la isla hasta en sus rincones más inexplorados maquinando empresas y -aseguran- matando a los indios que molestaran su paso. Europeo errante, de la especie que intentaba hacerse rica a fuerza de obsesiones como la de cosechar oro del mar...
96) 77° North
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An extraordinary debut novel - thematically significant, profoundly timely, magical in intent and execution.... A MUST READ. The Author himself best defines the intent of this novel. • First is to advocate Inuit culture, specifically the role of shaman. 77° North recognizes this ancient tradition and hopes, within the confines of this mythical adventure, we bring new perspective to the forefront for the stewards of...
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Une femme a laissé sa voix sur un lit de préjugés. J'ai reconnu son cri. Je l'habite et le propulse dans mes poèmes.
Au couchant de la terre promise, dédié aux enfants de Joyce Echaquan, est un cri du cœur, une alerte rouge contre l'apathie et l'indifférence.
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Un blizzard a percé l'écran de ma vie
Tourbillon dans mon cœur
Mon âme l'a saisi
Pour en faire une larme
Qui a mouillé les yeux du monde entier
Le sourire de Joyce m'a...
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This hieroglyphic poetry book is the first of its kind. Aboriginal author/artist Michelle Sylliboy blends her poetry, photography, and Mi'kmaq (L'nuk) hieroglyphic poetry in this unprecedented book. Hieroglyphic (komqwejwi'kasikl) symbols dominated the landscape of the seven districts of the L'nuk Nation prior to colonization. Kiskajeyi. I AM READY was released in 2019, the United Nations Year of Indigenous Languages.
99) Inagehi
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From Award-winner Jack Cady comes a novel that is part murder-mystery, part classical tragedy, and part spiritual journey. Set among the Cherokee of North Carolina in the 1950s, Inagehi is the story of a young woman who inherits a mountain and the mystery of her father's death. With themes as ancient as the existence of God and as modern as post-traumatic stress disorder, Inagehi answers that voice inside us all that asks how "it" all fits together....
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Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) is a novel by Muscogee American writer Sophia Alice Callahan. Published when the author was only 23 years old, Wynema: A Child of the Forest is the first novel written by an American Indian woman. Although it gained little, if any, attention upon publication, the novel was rediscovered and reprinted in 1997. Wynema: A Child of the Forest is an essential record of the Massacre at Wounded Knee and the subsequent...
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