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Read Native American and Indigenous Canadian authors

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30 participants (139 books)

Overview

There are 574 federally recognized Native Nations (variously called tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities and native villages) in the United States. More than 400 more Nations are not federally recognized. 

In the borders of Canada, there are more than 630 federally recognized governments or bands among the comprise the First Nations, Inuit or Métis peoples.   

Read 12 or more books of any format or genre by authors who self-identify as Native or Indigenous.

Challenge Books

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Just Pretending by Lisa Bird-Wilson

Just Pretending

Lisa Bird-Wilson

222 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Joshua Whitehead

194 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories speculative fiction emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

Prairie Edge

Conor Kerr

224 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction literary mystery thriller adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Avenue of Champions by Conor Kerr

Avenue of Champions

Conor Kerr

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

Jen Ferguson

384 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

Michelle Good

215 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays history sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

A Minor Chorus

Billy-Ray Belcourt

176 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary reflective medium-paced
What Remains of Elsie Jane by Chelsea Wakelyn

What Remains of Elsie Jane

Chelsea Wakelyn

264 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Theory of Crows by David A. Robertson

The Theory of Crows

David A. Robertson

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced