National Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes the history, resilience, and diversity of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples across what we now call Canada. Reading the stories, histories, and ideas of Indigenous Peoples is just one way to celebrate and expand our understanding—which is something we should always be looking to do, not just on Indigenous Peoples’ Day but every day.
UBC Okanagan Library has put together a display of books on the main floor to help celebrate National Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Come check out the books and select a great new read.
UBC Okanagan is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan People. We encourage you to review the Okanagan Syilx Research Guide, developed to provide a starting point for resources and research strategies on your journey to strengthen your knowledge of the relationship between UBC, its community members, and the Syilx Okanagan Nation and People.
A list of some of the books available through UBC Library is included below. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list or meant to be representative of all of the wonderful books that there are to discover, just a selection that can be borrowed from UBC Library.
Booklist for National Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Click on the title to see how you can borrow the book.
Carving space: the Indigenous Voices Awards anthology selected by Jordan Abel and others
This place: 150 years retold stories by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and 10 others
Indigenous Toronto: stories that carry this place edited by Denise Bolduc and others
Empire of wild by Cherie Dimaline
Hunting by stars by Cherie Dimaline
A mind spread out on the ground by Alicia Elliott
Truth telling: seven conversations about Indigenous life in Canada by Michelle Good
From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx
Literatures, communities, and learning: conversations with Indigenous writers by Aubrey Jean Hanson and 9 others
Permanent astonishment: a memoir by Tomson Highway
Coyote tales by Thomas King
In My Own Moccasins: a Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott
Heart berries: a Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
Stories of Métis women : tales my kookum told me edited by Bailey Oster & Marilyn Lizee
Stories from the magic canoe of Wa’xaid by Cecil Paul, as told to Briony Penn
Learn, teach, challenge: approaching indigenous literatures edited by Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra
Autobiography as Indigenous intellectual tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina by Deanna Reder
Son of a trickster by Eden Robinson
Âtalôhkâna nêsta tipâcimôwina = Cree legends and narratives : from the west coast of James Bay by told by Simeon Scott and 15 others
As we have always done: Indigenous freedom through radical resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Reclaiming two-spirits: sexuality, spiritual renewal, & sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers
All our relations: finding the path forward by Tanya Talaga
Cold: a novel by Drew Hayden Taylor
The North-West is our mother: the story of Louis Riel’s people, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet
From the ashes: my story of being Métis, homeless, and finding my way by Jesse Thistle
Life in the city of dirty water: a memoir of healing by Clayton Thomas-Müller
Gather by Richard Van Camp
The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
River Woman by Katherena Vermette
Buffalo is the new Buffalo: stories by Chelsea Vowel
Embers: one Ojibway’s meditations by Richard Wagamese
Unreconciled: family, truth, and Indigenous resistance by Jesse Wente
Indigiqueerness: a conversation about storytelling by Joshua Whitehead
Jonny Appleseed: a novel by Joshua Whitehead
What the eagle sees: Indigenous stories of rebellion and renewal by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger