Aboriginal Resource "Must Have" List 2019/2020
Extensive list of titles with the applicable grade levels and subjects.
Aboriginal Students' Writing
American Histories, Native American Narratives
American Indian Literature Appropriate for Secondary and Middle-Level Students
American Indian Women's Poetry: Strategies of Rage and Hope
Animkee
Applying Deloria’s Challenge: Indigenous and Mass Society’s Conceptions of Indian Self-determination
Appropriation of Aboriginal Oral Traditions
Arctic Dreams & Nightmares
An Art of Saying: Joy Harjo's Poetry and the Survival of Storytelling
As I Remember It: Teachings (ɂɘms taɂaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
At the Intersections of Empire: Ceremony, Transnationalism, and American Indian–Filipino Exchange
Auntie Angie's Cheyenne Affair
Authored Animals Creature Tropes in Native American Fiction
The Autobiographings of Mourning Dove
Discusses importance of three books: Cogewea the Half-Blood, Coyotes Stories, and Morning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography.
Bat Steals the Moon
Retelling of traditional story.
Source: Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands collected by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers.
Battle of the Northern Lights
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
The Bear-Walker & Other Stories
"Beatty, Reginald Bird-Diary & Correspondence"
"Being a Half-Breed": Discourses of Race and Cultural
Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers
Being an Indigenous CRC in the Era of the TRC #Notallitscrackeduptobe
Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture, Language and Identity
"The Belly of This Story": Storytelling and Symbolic Birth
in Native American Fiction
Between Heaven and Earth: The Art of Alex Jacobs
Between Two Points : Drinking From a Hose
Between Voice and Text: Bicultural Negotiation in the Contemporary Native American Novel
Beyond the Nineteenth Century: Thomas King's Decolonization of the Literary Image of the Native
Bigtime (at Chaw’se Sowwa)
The Bingocentric Worlds of Michel Tremblay and Tomson Highway: Les Belles-Soeurs vs. The Rez Sisters
Looks at the parallels between two plays in terms of the subject matter and the dramatic techniques used. For example, bingo, is used as a symbol and illustration of women's consumerism and of the spiritual emptiness in their lives.
Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow: Personal Memories of the Lakota Holy Man and John Neihardt
Black Hawk in Translation: Indigenous Critique and Liberal Guilt in the 1847 Dutch Edition of Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
Blood Thirsty Savages
Book Guide for How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable Retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater, Illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
The Book of Jessica: The Healing Circle of a Woman's Autobiography
Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age.
Borderland Voices in Contemporary Native American Poetry
The Buffalo, the Chickadee, and the Eagle: A Multispecies Textual History of Plenty Coups’s Multivocal Autobiography
Campaigning in the North West Territories
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected and Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators: 2019/20
Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools: Selected & Evaluated by Teacher-Librarians and Educators, 2018/19
Canadian Indigenous Children's Books through the Lense of Truth and Reconciliation
Primary source for titles was Amazon Best Sellers in Children’s Native Canadian Story Books, as well as publishers' web pages, and library and authors' lists. Objective was to identify fiction books for ages 0-18 written by Indigenous authors that contained reconciliation-related themes. More than 150 books met the inclusion criteria.