This National Indigenous History Month, the Indigenous team at SLC has compiled a list of book recommendations for non-fiction and fiction books by Indigenous authors:
- 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
- A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986 by John S. Milloy
- Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships edited by Lynne Davis
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Crow Winter by Karen McBride
- From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
- Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
- Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
- Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa’xaid by Cecil Paul, as told by Briony Penn
- Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City by Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- There There by Tommy Orange
- They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars
- True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould
- Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt
- Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan with foreward by Taiaiake Alfred
- Wenjack by Joseph Boyden
Children's Books
- By author and illustrator Roy Henry Vickers: If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden, Raven Brings The Light, Cloudwalker, Ben the Sea Lion, and more
- Who Will Win? by Arihhonni David
SLC Libraries Virtual DisPlay
The SLC Libraries team has created a virtual display for National Indigenous History Month. You can also check to see what books from the recommended list are available from our campus libraries.