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Author
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
"Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year--ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished. Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways...until they have to. That moment has arrived for Joan. One morning, grieving and severely hungover, Joan hears a shocking sound coming from inside a revival...
5) The break
Author
Publisher
The House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
352 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
310 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color), maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"John Linklater, of Anishinaabeg, Cree, and Scottish ancestry, and his wife, Tchi-Ki-Wis, of the Lac La Croix First Nation, lived in the canoe and border country of Ontario and Minnesota from the 1870s until the 1930s. With broad geographical sweep, historical significance, and biographical depth, Making the Carry tells their story, overlooked for far too long." --
7) Chickadee
Author
Series
Birchbark House volume 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In his memoir, Jesse Thistle writes about his experiences as a child abandoned by his parents and placed in foster care, his self-destructive cycle of drug addiction, petty crime and homelessness, and how he managed to turn his life around through education and perseverance.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Book Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book celebrating Metis culture. A group of children share and explore all the ways they celebrate and experience their heritage, from cooking bannock to creating bead art to dancing and performing traditional music. But for a child who has grown up disconnected from their heritage and history, where can they even begin?"--
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The debate over the meaning of marriage in the United States and specifically in Minnesota is not a recent development. From 1820 to 1845, when the first significant numbers of Americans arrived in the region now called Minnesota, they carried the belief that good government and an orderly household went hand in hand. The territorial, state, and federal governments of the United States were built upon a particular vision of civic responsibility: that...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When we first meet Ruby, a Métis woman in her 30s, she's a mess. She's angling to sleep with her therapist while also rekindling an old relationship with a man who was--let's just say--a mistake. As we will soon learn, however, Ruby's story is far broader and deeper than its rollicking, somewhat lighthearted first chapter. This is the story of a woman in search of herself, in every sense. Given up for adoption as an infant, Ruby was raised by a...
12) In her own footsteps: Flora Ross and her struggle for identity and independence in the Colonial West
Author
Publisher
Butterwort Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
460 pages : maps, illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1859, British and American troops stood at the brink of war over a small island in the Pacific Northwest, each claiming sovereignty over the region in a military standoff that has become known as the "Pig War" of San Juan Island. In the midst of the dispute sat a Hudson's Bay Company farm, where seventeen year-old Flora Ross, the Métis daughter (Anishinaabe/Scottish) of a prominent company family, nursed a farmworker's dying wife....
13) Pemmican wars
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 1
Publisher
Highwater Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and...
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume Vol. 4
Publisher
HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the fourth volume of A Girl Called Echo, Echo Desjardins resumes her time travel and learns more about Métis history in Canada, including the 'road allowance' land set aside by the crown, and the former community known as 'Rooster Town' in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She also witnesses the trial of Louis Riel in Regina, Saskatchewan."--
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 3
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly color illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel about the Northwest Resistance of 1885. In this book, the protagonist Echo Desjarlais encounters the Metis people of the Northwest Territory, including leaders Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont and Mistahimaskwa, in Batoche and other sites of the Resistance. After victories, then defeat, at the hands of the Canadian Forces, Riel surrenders. Echo travels back to the present, where she discovers her own ties to the Métis who fought there....
Series
Manitoba studies in native history volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xvi, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Girl called Echo volume 2
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
47 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Red River Resistance sees Echo Desjardins adjusting to her new home, making new friends, and learning about Metis history. One ordinary afternoon in class, Echo finds herself transported through time to the banks of the Red River in the summer of 1869. All is not well in the territory, as Canadian surveyors have arrived, and Metis families, who have lived there for generations, are losing access to their land. As the Resistance takes hold, Echo fears...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
NC 1160L
Physical Desc
192 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Running away from a vicious trapper, seven-year-old Ben MacDonald is separated from his family and eventually ends up on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, where he is taken in by a tribe of Metis Indians.
19) Halfbreed
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st Bison book ed.
Physical Desc
157 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Shuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Simon & Schuster Canada edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, but their tough-love attitudes meant conflicts became commonplace. And the...