[Image credit: Government of Canada]
To commemorate National Indigenous History Month, the uOttawa Library has put together a list of books and films featuring Indigenous stories and cultures. Many of these titles will be available to borrow from our display on the first floor of the Morisset Library starting on June 21st, National Indigenous Peoples Day.
Books
Embers : one Ojibway's meditations - Richard Wagamese
The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir - Joseph Auguste Merasty; David Carpenter
Green grass, running water - Thomas King
- Seven fallen feathers : racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city - Tanya Talaga
- Les visages de la terre - Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui (French)
- The reason you walk - Wab Kinew
- You are enough : love poems for the end of the world - Smokii Sumac
- A history of my brief body - Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Jonny Appleseed : a novel - Joshua Whitehead
- Split tooth - Tanya Tagaq
- Bearskin diary : a novel - Carol Rose GoldenEagle
- The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of Native people in North America - Thomas King
- The back of the turtle : a novel - Thomas King
- Indian Horse : a novel - Richard Wagamese
- Treaty words : for as long as the rivers flow - Aimée Craft
- Noopiming : the cure for white ladies - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Heart berries : a memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teaching of plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
- In search of April Raintree - Beatrice Mosionier
- The truth about stories : a native narrative - Thomas King
- Unreconciled : family, truth, and indigenous resistance - Jesse Wente
- La force de marcher - Wab Kinew (French)
- Peau d'ours : roman - Carol Rose GoldenEagle (French)
- Cheval Indien - Richard Wagamese (French)
- Cartographie de l'amour décolonial - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (French)
- Petite femme montagne : mémoires - Terese Marie Mailhot (French)
- Kukum - Michel Jean (French)
- Shuni - Naomi Fontaine (French)
Graphic novels
Betty : the Helen Betty Osborne story - David Robertson; Scott B. Henderson
Sugar Falls : a residential school story - David Robertson; Scott B. Henderson; Donovan Yaciuk
- Secret Path - Gordon Downie; Jeff Lemire
- The 500 years of Indigenous resistance comic book - Gord Hill
- 7 generations : a Plains Cree saga - David Robertson; Scott B. Henderson
Films
Mesnak - Yves Sioui Durand (French)
Keep talking - Karen Lynn Weinberg
Kayak to Klemtu - Zoe Leigh Hopkins
- Reel Injun - Neil Diamond
- Club Native: how thick is your blood? - Tracey Deer
- Smoke signals - Chris Eyre