Tag: Indigenous

The On Edge Reading Series showcases the work of writers who are doing the freshest, most interesting, and relevant work, writers who are also artists, volunteers, literary award winners, social justice organizers, prison abolitionists, literary organizers, dancers,
managing editors, filmmakers, Go to full post …read more

Join us for an amazing storytelling event with best selling author, Richard Van Camp. He will share his life’s work of reclaiming stories, family and community medicines and interviews with Elders from his community of Fort Smith, NWT. You’ll hear miracle Go to full post …read more

Frances Koncan’s play Women of the Fur Trade is about the Métis-led Red River Resistance against European colonisers. In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with Go to full post …read more

This June 21st, join Samantha Beynon and Strong Nations Publishing at the Royal BC Museum for the official launch of Celebrating Potlatches! This beautiful picture book, illustrated by Carla Joseph, recounts the 1885 Potlatch ban and the resilience of the communities Go to full post …read more

Tawahum Bige will launch a new poetry collection, Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells, at Enabling Arts on Granville Island on April 26, 7pm.
In their second poetry collection, Tawahum Bige explores belonging and voice of a Two-Spirit Dene youth. Go to full post …read more

We share some locally-published, esteemed titles that will help to make Indigenous voices a regular part of every reading journey.Go to full post …read more

Our individual and collective commitment to repairing relationships with Indigenous communities and to celebrating the lives and successes of their peoples is not simply a one-month project.Go to full post …read more

The CODE Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature shortlist was announced on September 19, 2018. Go to full post …read more

“Stories have the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes, to go beyond academic arguments and theoretical exposition.”Go to full post …read more

“I have this little game I play: find the hidden NDN. There’s almost always one—an appropriated concept of Indigeneity in every text.”Go to full post …read more

Maia Caron—who didn’t discover she was Métis until her twenties—wrote her debut novel as a love letter to her extended relations of Batoche Métis, women with secrets, and to Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont. Go to full post …read more

A selection of recent works by Indigenous writers and forthcoming Indigenous books in celebration of National Aboriginal DayGo to full post …read more