Our Stories

Indigenous Book Club

 
Our Stories: Indigenous Book Club with Indigenous Theatre is back as a podcast! Dive into the myriad of ways Indigenous writers are sharing their stories, from plays to poetry and everything in between. Join us every episode as we chat with the author and our guest-hosts about the book, their lives and what it means to be an Indigenous storyteller.

Our Stories reading list

Our Stories: Indigenous Book Club and the Children’s Indigenous Book Club are in partnership with Goodminds.com, a First Nations-owned family business. Check back later for upcoming books!

Looking to read along with us? Purchase your books from GoodMinds.com and use code NAC-CNA2022 to get free shipping!

What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile by Larry Audlaluk
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Voices of a Generation: Three Millennial Plays, with zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan
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Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future, edited by Drew Hayden Taylor
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Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer by Kevin Loring
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Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity by Norma Dunning
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Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente
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Children’s Indigenous Book Club

Young readers, come read with us with the Children’s Indigenous Book Club! Every month we will be sharing a new book by an Indigenous author along with our corresponding activity sheet. 

Our Stories: Indigenous Book Club and the Children’s Indigenous Book Club are in partnership with Goodminds.com, a First Nations-owned family business. Check back later for upcoming books!

Looking to read along with us? Purchase your books from GoodMinds.com and use code NAC-CNA2022 to get free shipping! 

Reading list

Inuki’s Birthday Party by Aviaq Johnston
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You Hold Me Up/ê-ohpiniyan (Plains Cree), You Hold Me Up/Gimanaadenim (Anishnaabemowin) by Monique Grey Smith
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Nibi’s Water Song by Sunshine Tenasco
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This is What I've Been Told by Juliana Armstrong
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The Sharing Circle by Theresa Corky Larsen-Jonasson and Allison Parker
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Louis Riel Day: The Fur Trade Project by Deborah L. Delaronde
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On the Trapline by David A. Robertson
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The Orange Shirt Story written by Phyllis Webstad, illustrated by Brock Nicol
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