Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother--and then his home itself. Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and...
Author
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
3) Dream wheels
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 398 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A cowboy forced into early retirement bonds with a stubborn teenager in this novel from the award-winning author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk.
Canadian champion bull-rider Joe Willie Wolfchild is poised to win the most sought-after title in rodeo when a devastating accident at the National Finals leaves his body and ambitions in tatters. Unsure of what else to do, he retires to the panoramic family ranch, Wolfcreek, to mend.
Claire Hartley...
Author
Publisher
FriesenPress
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 301 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1884, young bride Catherine McNab is starting a new life with veteran trader Ian McNab. Arriving in Saskatchewan, she learns the Indigenous people are starving and restless. As Catherine atempts to navigate growing political tensions, the Cree band's interpreter befriends her and gives her his sacred amulet for her safety.
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meg Harris is forced to leave the sanctuary of Three Deer Point and fly to Yellowknife, where her stepdaughter lies near death and her husband is in jail for killing a man. Expecting to find Eric shouting his innocence, she instead finds him cowed and willing to do hard time. But Meg doesn't believe he's guilty. Convinced that there's more to the murder victim - and the attack on her stepdaughter - than the police think, Meg finds herself on a sordid...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1985
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 246 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jesuit Father Laforgue sets forth in the Canadian wilderness to convert the Algonkins. He travels deep into the wilderness with the Indians and is abandoned to his fate in 17th-century Canada.
7) Keeper'n me
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Penguin modern classics edition.
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city.?Having skirted the urban underbelly once too often by age 20, he finds himself thrown in jail. While there, he gets a surprise letter from his long-forgotten native family. The...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Plains Cree/English edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Cree translation of Stolen Words. The book is in both Cree and English. Stolen Words is a picture book about a little girl who sets out to help her grandfather discover the Cree language that was stolen from him when he was sent away to residential school as a boy."--
In Commonwealth Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing Network can be requested from other Commonwealth Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request