 | Thursday, September 28, 2023 | |  | | | | David A. Robertson, a Swampy Cree author based in Winnipeg, writes books for readers of all ages. His most recent books are the novel The Theory of Crows, the YA series The Misewa Saga, the picture book On the Trapline and the memoir Black Water.
In 2021, Robertson curated this list of books by Indigenous writers about residential schools. He originally posted the list on Twitter and repurposed it for CBC Books. | | |  | | | | Monique Gray Smith is an author and storyteller of Cree, Lakota and Scottish heritage who often writes and speaks about the resilience of Indigenous communities.
In 2021, Smith spoke with CBC Radio's The Next Chapter host Shelagh Rogers after the devastating confirmation of unmarked graves at several former residential schools in Canada. Following their conversation, Smith curated this list of 45 books featuring Indigenous authors and illustrators who identify as women and/or two-spirit. | | |  | | | | In June, Cree writer and former lawyer Michelle Good curated a list of books to read for National Indigenous History Month.
Good's latest book is the essay collection Truth Telling, which is a collection of seven personal essays that explore a wide range of issues affecting Indigenous people in Canada today. | | |  | | | | On Writers & Company, revisit Eleanor Wachtel’s 2008 interview with Abenaki artist, activist and documentary filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin. Since 1967, Obomsawin has made more than 50 films with the National Film Board of Canada, largely focusing on the rights of Indigenous peoples. Now, at 91 years old, Obomsawin is still making films. Some of her recent documentaries include Bill Reid Remembers and Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger, which won the best Canadian documentary award at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival. | | |  | | | | Richard Van Camp is a Tłı̨chǫ Dene writer from Fort Smith, N.W.T., who has written 26 books across multiple genres. His graphic novel A Blanket of Butterflies was nominated for an Eisner Award. His other books include Angel Wing Splash Pattern, Night Moves and We Sang You Home.
In June 2022, Van Camp curated this list of books, highlighting the wide range and genre diversity of books by Indigenous authors. | | |  | | | | In her latest novel Into the Bright Open, Cherie Dimaline transforms a beloved English children's literature classic by shifting perspectives to allow voices from the Indigenous and queer communities to be spotlighted.
Dimaline is an international bestselling Métis author, best known for her YA novel The Marrow Thieves. Dimaline spoke with The Next Chapter's Ryan B. Patrick about Into the Bright Open. | | |  | | | | Phyllis Webstad is the creator of Orange Shirt Day. The day was inspired by how Webstad's favourite orange shirt was taken from her on her first day at residential school when she was six years old.
In 2020, Webstad spoke to Shelagh Rogers on The Next Chapter about how Phyllis's Orange Shirt and Orange Shirt Day came to be. | | |  | | | | In his newest book, Jordan Abel experiments and reimagines a known 19th century story from an Indigenous lens. Throughout Empty Spaces, he examines settler colonial ideas of land and how Indigenous peoples resist them through their story and their existence.
He spoke about his writing and inspiration with Ryan B. Patrick on The Next Chapter. | | |  | | | | The Theory of Crows is David A. Robertson's first novel for adults. We meet a family under strain and drifting apart. The divide seems to be growing until they set out to find the family trapline and bring the ashes of beloved Mushum, Holly's grandfather and Matthew's father back to the land.
Back in 2022, he spoke with Shelagh Rogers at an event at Wordfest in Calgary about his novel. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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