All Photos courtesy of Figure 1 Publishing Canada’s largest ocean watershed begins in the Hudson Bay region. Its pulsing waterways are like veins stretching across Ontario and beyond, intersecting and gathering strength as they flow through dense forests and wetlands. The water moves through populated u...
Mi’kmaw-settler author Amanda Peter’s first book, The Berry Pickers (Harper 2024) was a critically acclaimed bestseller in Canada, and was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction P...
The world of Coyote and Crow starts with a question; what if the colonization of the Americas never happened? It’s a world where societies and cultures were able to change and grow along their own trajectories. Technology has advanced to dazzling heights and in new directions that Indigenous peoples of...
Our stories are written and reflected in our bodies. Our DNA, our memories, and our somatic experiences are a setting as vital as the external world through which we navigate. In Cree poet Dallas Hunt’s second collection Teeth, the titular body parts are pieces of autobiography that erupt from those pla...
Amik is another fantastic children’s book now available in the Indigenous literature category for readers to access. In Amik, as the night turns to day, the seasons change, the animals begin to wake and prepare for the day, all while the beaver is busy building a dam all throughout the day. While the be...
Image: Heart Berries, alternate cover design. Terese Mailhot’s debut book, Heart Berries is a series of essays that tells the story of Mailhot’s experiences while growing up on Seabird Island Reservation in British Columbia. While reading Heart Berries, the reader learns that Mailhot began writing Heart...
Bridget George wrote and illustrated her first book, It’s a Mitig published in 2020. It’s a Mitig is available now in stores and online to purchase. George created It’s a Mitig for her son to help connect him to his culture and language and by writing this book it allowed many other readers, young and ....
Image Credit: Highwater Press, 2020 Lisa Boivin’s I Will See You Again thoughtfully and carefully carries readers through her oldest brother’s death overseas, and shares her personal story of bringing him home. This is an illustrated children’s book, a visual letter-poem, rooted in family, love, and hea...
Montreal-based Innu poet Maya Cousineau-Mollen published her first book in French, “Bréviaire du matricule 082,” with Éditions Hannenorak, this past fall. Her powerful collection, which has already sold out of its first print run and is going into a second edition, explores anger, identity, allyship, ho...
Mixed/adopted Mi’kmaq Newfoundland poet Douglas Walbourne-Gough’s debut collection, Crow Gulch (Goose Lane 2019) unearths an almost forgotten history of a community known as Crow Gulch, a mostly shaded and stigmatized area around Corner Brook built when the newsprint mill was constructed in 1920s. While...
