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First Nations, Métis and Inuit Perspectives in K-12 Literature: Residential Schools

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Picture Books

Shi-Shi-Etko by Nicola Campbell; Kim LaFave (Illustrator)
Call Number: Pic Cam
Publication Date: 2005
Shin-Chi's Canoe by Nicola I. Campbell; Kim LaFave (Illustrator)
Call Number: Pic Cam
Publication Date: 2008
When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson; Julie Flett (Illustrator)
Call Number: Pic Rob
Publication Date: 2017-03-01
When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton; Gabrielle Grimard (Illustrator); Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Call Number: 371.829 Jor
Publication Date: 2013-02-01
Not My Girl by Christy Jordan-Fenton; Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Gabrielle Grimard (Illustrator)
Call Number: 371.829 Jor
Publication Date: 2014-01-09
You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith; Danielle Daniel (Illustrator)
Call Number: Pic Gra
Publication Date: 2017-10-31
Stolen Words by Melanie Florence; Gabrielle Grimard (Illustrator)
Call Number: Pic Flo
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis; Kathy Kacer; Gillian Newland (Illustrator)
Call Number: Pic Dup
Publication Date: 2016-10-04

Recommended Titles

No Time to Say Goodbye by Sylvia Olsen
Call Number: Juv Ols
Publication Date: 2002
Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton; Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator)
Call Number: 371.829 Jor
Publication Date: 2010
Secret Path by Gordon Downie; Jeff Lemire (Illustrator)
Call Number: 382.42 Dow
Publication Date: 2016

Informational Texts

Righting Canada's Wrongs - Residential Schools by Melanie Florence
Call Number: 371.892 Flo
Publication Date: 2015-12-21
Residential schools: with the words and images of survivors by Larry Loyie
Call Number: 371.829 Loy
Publication Date: 2014

Novels or Short Stories

These are my words: the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens by Ruby Slipperjack
Call Number: Juv Sli
Publication Date: 2016
My Name Is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling
Call Number: Juv Ste
Publication Date: 1998

Murdered and Missing Women

Missing Nimama by Melanie Florence; Francois Thisdale (Illustrator)
Call Number: Pic Flo
Publication Date: 2016
Betty by David Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: 362.83997 Rob
Publication Date: 2016-01-05

Memoir/Biography

Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton; Margaret Lucy Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator); Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Call Number: 371.829 Jor
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
A Stranger at Home by Christy Jordan-Fenton; Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes (Illustrator)
Call Number: 371.829 Jor
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
As Long As the Rivers Flow by Larry Loyie; Constance Brissenden; Heather D. Holmlund (Illustrator)
Call Number: 970.4123 Loy
Publication Date: 2005

Graphic Texts

Secret Path by Gord Downie; Jeff Lemire (Illustrator)
Call Number: 382.42 Dow
Publication Date: 2016-10-25
Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story by David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN Rob
Publication Date: 2012

7 Generations Series (Graphic Texts)

Classroom Guide, Gr. 9-12
Made available by the publisher, Portage and Main.

Stone by David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN Rob
Publication Date: 2010-03-19
Scars by David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN Rob
Publication Date: 2010-07-26
Ends/Begins by David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN Rob
Publication Date: 2010-12-08
The Pact by David Alexander Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: GN Rob
Publication Date: 2011-05-16