108 Indigenous writers to read, as recommended by you
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Here are 108 Indigenous writers to check out.
1. An Honest Woman by Jónína Kirton (Recommended by: @Ayelet Tsabari)
2. Arctic Dreams and Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
3. Bad Endings by Carleigh Baker (Recommended by: @Ayelet Tsabari)
4. Badger by Daniel Heath Justice (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
5. Bearskin Diary by Carol Rose Daniels (Recommended by: @feralplaywright)
6. Beautiful Razor by Al Hunter (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
7. Calling Down the Sky by Rosanna Deerchild (Recommended by: @elainecorden, @concrete_poet)
8. Creating Space by Verna J. Kirkness (Recommended by: @jodysmiling)
9. Digital Ogichida by Jordan Wheeler (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
10. Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes (Recommended by: @missoliviaanne)
11. Fire Starters by Jen Storm, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
12. Firewater by Harold R. Johnson (Recommended by: @kevimrie)
13. Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson (Recommended by: @fillingstation)
14. Gabriel’s Beach by Neal McLeod (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @kevimrie)
15. Half-Breed by Maria Campbell (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
16. Halfling Spring by Joanne Arnott (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
17. Huff & Stitch by Cliff Cardinal (Recommended by: @maritadachsel)
18. I Am Woman by Lee Maracle (Recommended by: @MarkAbbott604)
19. Indigenous Writes by Chelsea Vowel (Recommended by: @N_StPierre)
20. In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier (Recommended by: @Katiewtweet)
21. In the Silhouette of Your Silences by David Groulx (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
22. Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway (Recommended by: @elainecorden)
23. I Want by Joseph A. Dandurand (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
24. “kîwetinotahk pimâcihowin — northern journeys”by Andréa Ledding (Recommended by: @feralplaywright)
25. Lake of the Prairies by Warren Cariou (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @N_StPierre)
26. Life Among the Qallunaat by Mini Aodla Freeman (Recommended by: @sciencebanshee)
27. Lightfinder by Aaron Paquette (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
28. Lnu and Indians We’re Called by Rita Joe (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
29. Invisible Victims by Katherine McCarthy (Recommended by: @RealRJParker)
30.Moose Meat & Wild Rice by Basil Johnston (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
31. nakamowin sa for the seasons by Rita Bouvier (Recommended by: @LawandLit)
32. Night Moves by Richard Van Camp (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @sarafdavidson)
33. nipê wânîn: my way back by Mika Lafond (Recommended by: @feralplaywright)
34. Owls See Clearly At Night by Julie Flett (Recommended by: @N_StPierre)
35. Poems for a New World by Connie Fife (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
36. Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Recommended by: @fillingstation)
37. Running on the March Wind by Lenore Keeshig (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
38. Salt Baby by Falen Johnson (Recommended by: @maritadachsel)
39. Sanaaqby Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, translated by Bernard Saladin d’Anglure (Recommended by: @elainecorden)
40. Seasons of Hope by James Bartleman (Recommended by: @eleanor70001)
41. Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga (Recommended by: @JaelRichardson)
42. she walks for days inside a thousand eyes by Sharron Proulx-Turner (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
43. Slash by Jeannette Armstrong (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @CarrieTerbasket)
44. Spirit of the Wolf by Duncan Mercredi (Recommended by: @kevimrie)
45. Still No Word by Shannon Webb-Campbell (Recommended by: @N_StPierre)
46. Sugar Falls by David Alexander Robertson, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson (Recommended by: @sarafdavidson)
47. Taqralik Partridge (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
48. The Break by Katherena Vermette (Recommended by: @macpherson_a)
49. The Pemmican Eaters by Marilyn Dumont (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @elainecorden, @LawandLit)
50. The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew (Recommended by: @evilscumbag)
51. The Red Files by Lisa Bird-Wilson (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @LawandLit)
52. The Stone Collection by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (Recommended by: @concrete_poet)
53. The Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Recommended by: @concrete_poet)
54. Tobacco Wars by Paul Seesequasis (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
55. Tombs of the Vanishing Indian by Marie Clements (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
56. Totem Poles and Railroads by Janet Rogers (Recommended by: @LawandLit, @Skink00ts)
57. Un/inhabited by Jordan Abel (Recommended by: @fillingstation, @maritadachsel, @N_StPierre)
58. Witness, I Am by Gregory Scofield (Recommended by: @elainecorden)
59. Wrist by Nathan Adler (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @JaelRichardson)
60. Monkey Beachby Eden Robinson (Recommended by: @theborrower, @shellenepaull, @CoyoteDreams)
61. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (Recommended by: @shellenepaull, @maggiem_chinook, @GillEllis51, @ejmspoelstra, @celmslie1, Junior de Lima & Lisa Laing)
62. The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King (Recommended by: Gerry Rogers, @celmslie1, @Danielle_Author)
63. Birdie by Tracey Lindberg (Recommended by: @GillEllis51, @Danielle_Author, Kent Wakely)
64. From the Barren Lands by Leonard Flett (Recommended by: @nothinglin, Kimberly Laliberty, Marguerite Flett, Frank Flett & Horace Flett)
65. Tilly by Monique Gray Smith (Recommended by: @CarolyneTaylor, Quincey Erin Cable)
66. Where I Belong by Tara White (Recommended by: @tradewindbooks)
67. Motorcycles and Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor (Recommended by: @maggiem_chinook, @TheFOLD_)
68. Skin Like Mine by Garry Gottfriedson (Recommended by: @theborrower)
69. Kuessipan by Naomi Fontaine (Recommended by: @theborrower)
70. Blood Red Summer by Wayne Arthurson (Recommended by: @peggy_blair, @MinisterFaust)
71. Almighty Voice and His Wife by Daniel David Moses (Recommended by: @Diginalgifts)
72. Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo (Recommended by: @susanhimel)
73. The Chief and Her Sister by Andrew Genaille (Recommended by: @rvgenaille)
74. Walking in Your Power by Barbara M. Derrick (Recommended by: @nativestudioart)
75. My Silent Drum by Ovide Mercredi (Recommended by: @paurrod)
76. Shadows Cast by Stars by Catherine Knutsson (Recommended by: @CoyoteDreams)
77. Bird Child by Nan Forler, illustrated by François Thisdale (Recommended by: @CoyoteDreams)
78. Art of Peace by Elizabeth Doxtater (Recommended by: @VMcNaughton)
79. Nationhood Interrupted by Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum) (Recommended by: @SteveCowleyNYC)
80. Dramaville is not a place; it’s a state of mind by Andrea Lewis (Recommended by: @dredrelew)
81. Abstract Love by Bevann Fox (Recommended by: @SteveCowleyNYC)
82. We Are All Treaty People by Maurice Switzer, illustrated by Charley Herbert (Recommended by: @AnishNation)
83. The Stone Gift by Deborah L. Delaronde (Recommended by: @RoxShuttleworth)
84. Annie Mae’s Movement by Yvette Nolan (Recommended by: @ladyblerd, @TheFOLD_)
85. Night Spirits by Ila Bussidor & Ustun Bilgen-Reinart (Recommended by: Gerry Rogers)
86. Voices in the Waterfall by Beth Cuthand (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
87. Porcupines and China Dolls by Robert Arthur Alexie (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
88. Seven Deer Dancing by Rolland Nadjiwon (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie)
89. This Accident of Being Lostby Leanne Simpson (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @TheFOLD_, Stéphanie Lynn)
90. Burning in This Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @TheFOLD_)
91. Kagagi by Jay Odjick & Patrick Tenascon (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
92. Café Daughter by Kenneth T. Williams (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
93. The Right to Be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
94. Full-Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
95. Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont (Recommended by: Stephanie Strain, @TheFOLD_)
96. A Gentle Habit by Cherie Dimaline (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
97. They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
98. Alicia Elliott (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
99. A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby,with Mary Louisa Plummer (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
100. Legacy by Waubgeshig Rice (Recommended by: @KateriAkiwenzie, @TheFOLD_)
101. Moe Clark (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
102. Jesse Wente (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
103. The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson, illustrated by Kelly Mellings (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
104. The Plains of Aamjiwnaang by David D. Plain (Recommended by: Lee Anne Matheson)
105. Travelling Mother by David Seven Deers (Recommended by: Jill Webb Veitch)
106. Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard (Recommended by: @fillingstation, @bookgaga)
107. Norval Morrisseau by Armand Garnet Ruffo (Recommended by: @mrrgteacher)
108. Ryan McMahon (Recommended by: @TheFOLD_)
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