Indigenous Initiatives: Collections
Explore our curated collections featuring works by Indigenous creators, stories about Indigenous experiences and resources for language learning.
Read Indigenous
Read Indigenous is a yearly list of must-read titles written by Indigenous authors, writers, illustrators and Knowledge Keepers for all ages. The list is just a selection and there are many more you can read. So don’t stop here.
Leave our bones where they lay
Aviaq Johnston
An ordinary violence
Adriana Chartrand
Deyohahá:ge
Edited by Daniel Coleman, Ki’en Debicki and Bonnie M. Freeman
Theory of water
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
A constellation of minor bears
Jen Ferguson
Legendary Frybread Drive-in
Edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Sisters in the wind
Angeline Boulley
The Rez doctor
Gitz Crazyboy
Canada: We are the story
Richard Wagamese
Dad, Is it time to gather mint?
Tyna Legault Taylor
I Am Métis
Karen Hourie Ellefson
Native Peoples Collection
The Native Peoples Collection includes books, CDs, DVDs, as well as language-learning kits, by and about Indigenous Peoples of North America with special emphasis on First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples in Canada.
Adults
An anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English
Multiple Contributers
Adults
Shapes of Native Nonfiction
Multiple Contributers
Adults
Walking together, working together: engaging wisdom for Indigenous well-being
Multiple Contributers
Children
We Learn from the Sun
David Bouchard
Anishinaabemowin (ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᒧᐎᐣ) Language Collection
The collection includes materials in Anishinaabemowin (ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᒧᐎᐣ) and English on identity, culture and tradition, shared through traditional teachings, Indigenous Knowledge, storytelling, legends and oral traditions from Knowledge Keepers and Elders. It offers resources for children, teens, adults and Elders.
Phoenix ani’ gichichi-I' (Phoenix Gets Greater)
Marty Wilson-Trudeau
Pocket Ojibwe: a phrasebook for nearly all occasions
Patricia M. Ningewance
Wiijibibamatoon-anangoonan (Runs with the stars)
Darcy Whitecrow
Audiobook CD
Ojibwe 1
Multiple Contributers
Book Club Sets
Borrow multiple copies of books by Indigenous authors for your next book club or group discussion.
Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel
Lee Maracle
Jonny Appleseed
Joshua Whitehead
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott
Bad Cree
Jessica Johns
Land Acknowledgement Statement
Toronto Public Library is situated on Indigenous land and Dish with One Spoon territory. This is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Toronto Public Library gratefully acknowledges these Indigenous Nations for their guardianship of this land.
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