National Indigenous History Month

Explore our selection of books and films below, featuring Indigenous authors and stories that you can borrow from the library. We also collaborated with the wonderful staff and students of the uOttawa Mashkawazìwogamig Indigenous Resource Centre this year to share some recommended books and films throughout the month. Check out our selection of print books from our book display at the Morisset library which will be available for the whole month of June.

Head over to the library’s Instagram page as well throughout the month to see the recommendations with links to make your requests in Omni.

English books

• Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity [eBook] 

• Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit [eBook] 

• Daughters of the Deer  

• Calling my spirit back 

• Ndè sìì wet'aà : northern Indigenous voices on land, life, and art   

• Rehearsals for living  [eBook] 

• Noopiming : the cure for white ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson   

• Amun : a gathering of Indigenous stories  

• The truth about stories: a native narrative  

• The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of Native people in North America  

• Unreconciled : family, truth, and indigenous resistance [ebook] 

• Treaty words : for as long as the rivers flow  
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• Namwayut - We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation  

• True reconciliation : how to be a force for change [eBook] 

• Love after the end : an anthology of two-spirit & indigiqueer speculative fiction [eBook]

• Trickster Drift [eBook & print]  

• Return of the Trickster  

• Moon of the crusted snow [eBook] 

• River woman  

• Heart berries: a memoir  

• Braiding Sweetgrass 

• Fire Keeper’s Daughter 

• Jonny Appleseed [eBook & print]

French books

• Ascendance détournée : quand les Blancs revendiquent une identité autochtone  

• Amun  

• Cartographie de l'amour décolonial

• De vengeance  

• Chauffer le dehors

• Frayer 

• Neige des lunes brisées [French version of Moon of the crusted snow above] 

• Femme-rivière : poésie [French version of River woman listed above] 

• Shuni 

• Atuk, elle et nous  

• Éveil à Kitchike : La saignée des possibles  

• Nauetakuan, un silence pour un bruit : roman  

• Enfants du lichen  

• Wapke  

• Tiohtiá:ke  

• Ourse bleue -- Piciskanâw mask iskwew : rétrospective  

• Nikanik e itapian : un avenir autochtone « décolonisé » 

Online Films 

• Angry Inuk  [English]  

• Beans [English and French] 

• Kayak to Klemtu [English] 

• Night Raiders / Les voleurs de la nuit 

• The Grizzlies [English and French] 

• Portraits from a Fire [English] 

• Birth of a family [English]  

• Blood Quantum [English] 

• Martha of the North [English] & Martha qui vient du froid [French]