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When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim police, family, and friends tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend.

In Joseph Boyden's novella, an Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School.

He realizes too late just how far away he is from home. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest, who comment on his plight by cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering comfort on his difficult journey.

De nos jours, on ne défend plus l’idée que les peuples autochtones conquis et colonisés étaient sans culture ou sans histoire, tout en reconnaissant néanmoins que leur histoire était obscure et leur univers culturel opaque pour les premiers voyageurs européens. Roland Viau écrit ici la rencontre entre l’Europe et l’Amerindia en donnant la parole à l’Autre. Sa perspective est globale, proche de la world history – symbiose entre les disciplines de la mémoire: ethnologie, histoire et archéologie – et loin de la vision d’un monde façonné par le seul Occident.

Overview of the diverse and complex lives of First Nations people with subjects including veterans, youth, urbanization, child welfare, appropriate questions to ask a First Nations person, feminism, the medicine wheel, Two-spirit (LGBTQ), residential schools, the land bridge theory, and language preservation.

In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literature, with its own discursive and rhetorical traditions that underpin its cultural and historical contexts.

Strange things start happening in the bedrooms of Faith and Dakota. The siblings find a way to solve their problems and make friends in a special way.

A young Mi'kmaw boy, Little Thunder, learns the importance of responsibility as his father teaches him, and then passes on, the role of Thundermaker.

In the time before animals were as they are today, Wolf spent his days admiring all the other animals. Not content to simply be a wolf, happy and hunting with his pack, he watches the owls, wolverines, and caribou with envy, wishing that he could be like them. Wishing he could be anything other than a wolf. When the magic of the land finally grants his wish, Wolf finds out that what he admires may not be what he really wants in the end. -- Amazon.com

An orphan who is left on the sea ice by a group of cruel hunters is adopted by a polar bear elder.

Looks at the experiences of a young Inuit girl returning from a residential religious school, where she is not recognized by her mother and is seen as an outsider.