Friday, May 26, 2017 |
FOLD, the Festival of Literary Diversity, tweeted out the names of several Indigenous authors you should know. Many readers got in the spirit and shared their own recommendations. We've highlighted their suggestions here.
Here are 108 Indigenous writers to check out.
An Honest Woman
by Jónína Kirton
Recommended by:
@Ayelet Tsabari
Arctic Dreams
and Nightmares
by Alootook Ipellie
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Bad Endings
by Carleigh Baker
Recommended by:
@Ayelet Tsabari
Badger
by Daniel Heath Justice
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Bearskin Diary
by Carol Rose Daniels
Recommended by:
@feralplaywright
Beautiful Razor
by Al Hunter
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Calling Down the Sky
by Rosanna Deerchild
Recommended by:
@elainecorden &
@concrete_poet
Creating Space
by Verna J. Kirkness
Recommended by:
@jodysmiling
Digital Ogichida
by Jordan Wheeler
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Fatty Legs
by Christy Jordan-Fenton
and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
illustrated by
Liz Amini-Holmes
Recommended by:
@missoliviaanne
Fire Starters
by Jen Storm
illustrated by
Scott B. Henderson
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Flint and Feather
by E. Pauline Johnson
Recommended by:
@fillingstation
Gabriel's Beach
by Neal McLeod
Recommended by:
@kevimrie & @KateriAkiwenzie
Half-Breed
by Maria Campbell
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Halfling Spring
by Joanne Arnott
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Huff & Stitch
by Cliff Cardinal
Recommended by:
@maritadachsel
I Am Woman
by Lee Maracle
Recommended by:
@MarkAbbott604
Indigenous Writes
by Chelsea Vowel
Recommended by:
@N_StPierre
Infinite Citizen of
the Shaking Tent
by Liz Howard
Recommended by:
@bookgaga & @fillingstation
In Search of April Raintree
by Beatrice Mosionier
Recommended by:
@Katiewtweet
In the Silhouette
of Your Silences
by David Groulx
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
I Want
by Joseph A. Dandurand
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Kiss of the Fur Queen
by Tomson Highway
Recommended by:
@elainecorden
"kîwetinotahk pimâcihowin -
northern journeys"
by Andréa Ledding
Recommended by:
@feralplaywright
Lake of the Prairies
by Warren Cariou
Recommended by:
@N_StPierre &
@KateriAkiwenzie
Life Among the Qallunaat
by Mini Aodla Freeman
Recommended by:
@sciencebanshee
Lightfinder
by Aaron Paquette
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Lnu and Indians We're Called
by Rita Joe
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Mercenary English
by Mercedes Eng
Recommended by:
@fillingstation
Moose Meat & Wild Rice
by Basil Johnston
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
nakamowin sa for the seasons
by Rita Bouvier
Recommended by:
@LawandLit
Night Moves
by Richard Van Camp
Recommended by:
@sarafdavidson &
@KateriAkiwenzie
nipê wânîn: my way back
by Mika Lafond
Recommended by:
@feralplaywright
Owls See Clearly at Night
by Julie Flett
Recommended by:
@N_StPierre
Poems for a New World
by Connie Fife
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Red: A Haida Manga
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Recommended by:
@fillingstation
Running on the March Wind
by Lenore Keeshig
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Salt Baby
by Falen Johnson
Recommended by:
@maritadachsel
Sanaaq
by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
translated by
Bernard Saladin d'Anglure
Recommended by:
@elainecorden
Seasons of Hope
by Jame Bartleman
Recommended by:
@eleanor70001
Seven Fallen Feathers
by Tanya Talaga
Recommended by:
@JaelRichardson
she walks for days
inside a thousand eyes
by Sharron Proulx-Turner
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Slash
by Jeannette Armstrong
Recommended by:
@CarrieTerbasket &
@KateriAkiwenzie
Spirit of the Wolf
by Duncan Mercredi
Recommended by:
@kevimrie
Still No Word
by Shannon Webb-Campbell
Recommended by:
@N_StPierre
Sugar Falls
by David Alexander
Robertson, illustrated by
Scott B. Henderson
Recommended by:
@sarafdavidson
The Break
by Katherena Vermette
Recommended by:
@macpherson_a
The Reason You Walk
by Wab Kinew
Recommended by:
@evilscumbag
The Red Files
by Lisa Bird-Wilson
Recommended by:
@LawandLit &
@KateriAkiwenzie
The Stone Collection
by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Recommended by:
@concrete_poet
The Wound is a World
by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Recommended by:
@concrete_poet
Tobacco Wars
by Paul Seesequasis
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Tombs of the
Vanishing Indian
by Marie Clements
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Totem Poles and Railroads
by Janet Rogers
Recommended by:
@LawandLit & @Skink00ts
Un/inhabited
by Jordan Abel
Recommended by:
@N_StPierre,
@maritadachsel &
@fillingstation
Witness, I Am
by Gregory Scofield
Recommended by:
@elainecorden
Wrist
by Nathan Adler
Recommended by:
@JaelRichardson &
@KateriAkiwenzie
Monkey Beach
by Eden Robinson
Recommended by:
@theborrower,
@shellenepaull &
@CoyoteDreams
Indian Horse
by Richard Wagamese
Recommended by:
@maggiem_chinook,
@GillEllis51,
@shellenepaull,
@ejmspoelstra,
@celmslie1,
Junior de Lima & Lisa Laing
The Inconvenient Indian
by Thomas King
Recommended by:
@Danielle_Author,
@celmslie1
& Gerry Rogers
Birdie
by Tracey Lindberg
Recommended by:
@Danielle_Author,
@GillEllis51
& Kent Wakely
A Gentle Habit
by Cherie Dimaline
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
Tilly
by Monique Gray Smith
Recommended by:
@CarolyneTaylor
& Quincey Erin Cable
From The Barren Lands
Leonard Flett
Recommended by:
@nothinglin,
Kimberly Laliberty,
Marguerite Flett,
Frank Flett & Horace Flett
Where I Belong
Tara White
Recommended by:
@tradewindbooks
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Drew Hayden Taylor
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_,
@maggiem_chinook
Skin Like Mine
Garry Gottfriedson
Recommended by:
@theborrower
Kuessipan
Naomi Fontaine
Recommended by:
@theborrower
Blood Red Summer
Naomi Fontaine
Recommended by:
@MinisterFaust
&@peggy_blair
Almighty Voice and His Wife
Daniel David Moses
Recommended by:
@Diginalgifts
Up Ghost River
Edmund Metatawabin,
with Alexandra Shimo
Recommended by:
@susanhimel
The Chief and Her Sister
Andrew Genaille
Recommended by:
@rvgenaille
Walking in Your Power
Barbara M. Derrick
Recommended by:
@nativestudioart
My Silent Drum
Ovide Mercredi
Recommended by:
@paurrod
Shadows Cast by Stars
Catherine Knutsson
Recommended by:
@CoyoteDreams
Bird Child
by Nan Forler,
illustrated by
François Thisdale
Recommended by:
@CoyoteDreams
Art of Peace
by Elizabeth Doxtater
Recommended by:
@VMcNaughton
Nationhood Interrupted
by Sylvia McAdam
(Saysewahum)
Recommended by:
@SteveCowleyNYC
Dramaville is not a place;
it's a state of mind
by Andrea Lewis
Recommended by:
@dredrelew
Abstract Love
by Bevann Fox
Recommended by:
@SteveCowleyNYC
We Are All Treaty People
by Maurice Switzer,
illustrated by Charley Herbert
Recommended by:
@AnishNation
Annie Mae's Movement
by Yvette Nolan
Recommended by:
@ladyblerd &
@TheFOLD_
The Stone Gift
by Deborah L. Delaronde
Recommended by:
@RoxShuttleworth
Night Spirits
by Ila Bussidor &
Ustun Bilgen-Reinart
Recommended by:
Gerry Rogers
Voices in the Waterfall
by Beth Cuthand
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Porcupines and China Dolls
by Robert Arthur Alexie
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
Seven Deer Dancing
by Rolland Nadjiwon
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
This Accident of Being Lost
by Leanne
Betasamosake Simpson
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie,
@TheFOLD_
& Stéphanie Lynn
Burning in this
Midnight Dream
by
Louise Bernice Halfe
Recommended by:
@KateriAkiwenzie
& @TheFOLD_
Café Daughter
by Kenneth T. Williams
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
The Right to Be Cold
by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
Full-Metal Indigiqueer
by Joshua Whitehead
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
Nobody Cries at Bingo
by Dawn Dumont
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
& Stephanie Strain
They Called Me Number One
by Bev Sellars
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
A Two-Spirit Journey
by Ma-Nee Chacaby,
with Mary Louisa Plummer
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
Legacy
by Waubgeshig Rice
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
& @KateriAkiwenzie
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
The Outside Circle
by Patti LaBoucane-Benson,
illustrated by
Kelly Mellings
Recommended by:
@TheFOLD_
The Plains
of Aamjiwnaang
by David D. Plain
Recommended by:
Lee Anne Matheson
Travelling Mother
by David Seven Deers
Recommended by:
Jill Webb Veitch
Norval Morrisseau
by Armand Garnet Ruffo
Recommended by:
@mrrgteacher
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