June is National Indigenous History Month, and June 21st is Indigenous Peoples Day. At the end of the month and ahead of #CancelCanadaDay on July 1st, we’d like to take some time to highlight some of our collective’s favourite Indigenous authors and their works! We hope that this list will help you not only freshen up your pile of to-read books, but also allow you to uplift and support Indigenous stories and craft beyond a single month or day.
This reading list includes of some of our collective’s favourite Indigenous women, Two Spirit, and Indigiqueer writers, but is not comprehensive by any means – simply a way for us to share some of our favourite Indigenous writers, poets, and artists with you in hopes that this will encourage you to discover your own favourites. We hope you buy these works from your favourite local bookstore, or, even better, order online or shop in store with Indigenous-owned bookstore Massy Books or Iron Dog Books!
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- A History of My Brief Body – Billy-Ray Belcourt
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground – Alicia Elliott
- A Really Good Brown Girl – Marilyn Dumont
- Adagio for the Horizon – Laurelyn Whitt
- Almanac of the Dead – Leslie Marmon Silko
- As Long As Grass Grows – Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Black Sun – Rebecca Roanhorse
- Bone Black – Carol Rose GoldenEagle
- Bones – Tyler Pennock
- Disintegrate/Dissociate – Arielle Twist
- Exhibitionist – Molly Cross-Blanchard
- Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley
- Fresh Pack of Smokes – Cassandra Blanchard
- Heart Berries – Terese Marie Mailhot
- I Am Still Too Much – Brandi Bird
- I Am Woman – Lee Maracle
- In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience – Helen Knott
- Indian Love Poems – Tenille Campbell
- Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada – Chelsea Vowel
- Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent – Liz Howard
- it was never going to be okay – jaye simpson
- Jonny Appleseed – Joshua Whitehead
- Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline
- Nîtisânak – Lindsay Nixon
- On/Me – Francine Cunningham
- Son of a Trickster – Edin Robinson
- The Strangers – Katherena Vermette
- The Summer of Bitter and Sweet – Jen Ferguson
- THIS PLACE: 150 Years Retold – A Graphic Novel Anthology
- Uiesh, Quelque part – Joséphine Bacon
- Undoing Hours – Selina Boan
- You Are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World – Smokii Sumac
