Indigenous Fiction

When 17-year-old Jonah arrives in a new town – Patience – with his dad and younger brothers, it feels like a foreign place. A new town means he needs to make new friends - which isn't always easy. Especially when he's wrestling with his body image, and his memories of his mother.

A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from one of contemporary literature’s most boundless minds.

In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation, Chief Stacey Laforme gives a history of his people through stories and poetry to allow us to see through the eyes of indigenous people. In it, he hits hard on matters of residential schools, the environment, suicide among indigenous youth, domestic abuse, and so on, but also writes poems of love and hope. Chief Laforme’s universal message is, “We should not have to change to fit into society, the world should adapt to embrace our uniqueness.”

The poems and prose from this novel in verse are the dialogue and thoughts between two thirteen-year-olds. Travel back in this Indigenous historical fiction coming-of-age novel in verse from present-day Minneapolis with Evangeline to 1862 Bdóte, where we meet Lily. Both thirteen-year-old Dakota Sioux girls find friendship despite the pain, anguish, and danger that was the internment camp for some of the surviving Dakota women and children following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, where 38 of their male family members were hanged, in the largest U.S. mass execution. Bdóte, or "'Where the two ...

Obra surpreendente com as vivências do multiartista e xamã João Irineu França Neto, indígena do Nordeste do Brasil; um audiolivro que pode (e deve) ser ouvido como um romance de auto-ficção. Nele, o autor explora temas como o amor e a sua natureza; vida e morte; a arte; e a natureza em si, sempre com uma reflexão importante sobre a preservação das culturas tradicionais do país, mas também sobre a preservação de todo o planeta.

In this post-apocalyptic world, snow, ice, and death prevail. The remnants of humanity have survived by relearning ancient ways. Some villages cooperate with each other, but there are tribes which have turned to murder and theft to ensure their own success. Three orphaned friends wander alone through this precarious world. Teek, Lance, and Kateesh have all suffered traumatic losses which shattered their faith in their fellow human beings. They are sure that they can count on each other, but that certitude is shaken when violence rages into their lives once again.

From multi-award-winning Gunai author Kirli Saunders and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Freya Blackwood comes Afloat. Against a backdrop of a changed environment, an Elder leads a child along the waterways, sharing her People’s knowledge and gathering community along the way. This uplifting and inspiring picture book uses the practice of weaving as a powerful metaphor for the honoring and teaching of First Nations wisdom, and the coming together of all people to survive, thrive, and create a more hopeful future.

Drawing on the wisdom and personal experience of its esteemed contributors, this first-of-its-kind anthology tackles complex questions of our times to provide a rich tapestry of Indigenous life, past, present, and future. These peace offerings—to settlers, to one another, to listeners—explore the histories that have brought us to this moment, the challenges and crises faced by present-day communities, and the visions that will lead us to a new architecture for thinking about Indigeneity.

Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have shared their wisdom with younger people through oral history, stories, ceremonies, and records that took many forms. In Sky Wolf’s Call, Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger reveal how Indigenous knowledge comes from centuries of practices, experiences, and ideas gathered by people who have a long history with the natural world.

The Rainbow, the Midwife & The Birds audiobook contains 7 Dene First Nation stories, as experienced by Raymond Yakeleya.

El conocimiento de otros pueblos aborígenes que desde hace tiempo la antropología ha logrado interpretar en su legítima especificidad cultural había permanecido desconocida en varios aspectos importantes; pero, felizmente, cada vez son más numerosas las per-sonas que tienen conciencia de estas colectividades, para la contribu-ción de las bases fundamentales de una entidad nacional.

Zonia’s home is the Amazon rain forest, where it is always green and full of life. Every morning, the rain forest calls to Zonia, and every morning, she answers. She visits the sloth family, greets the giant anteater, and runs with the speedy jaguar. But one morning, the rain forest calls to her in a troubled voice. How will Zonia answer?

Leo Malone. Running from his past. Running into trouble. In Martinique, Leo Malone meets Taylor Hoffman, a young man who could be his identical twin. Whey they run afoul of a local gangster, Taylor is murdered and Leo assumes his identity to sneak safely out of the country and back to Los Angeles. But when Taylor’s estranged parents meet Leo at the airport, mistaking him for their son, Leo’s best-laid plans spiral out of control. Full of surprising twists and turns, Too Much in the Son is part Agatha Christie, part Elmore Leonard, with a dash of David Mamet and served with a Larry David...

Dr. Jane Su-Ming Lai (PhD) is a Metaphysician, Cultural and Social Anthropologist Artist, Author, Speaker and Educator, who has lived and worked in Alice Springs and remote communities of Central Australia. She is also a Holistic Health and Wellbeing Transformational Life Coach who through her services, Art and Mindfulness meditations has inspired many Aboriginal people to believe in themselves and stand in their power of the grandeur of their race and culture. Mega-soar-Us is the original story, to share the Kanyini with all the children of the world.