news | Thursday June 20, 2024

National Indigenous Peoples Day 2024

June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day! At Talonbooks, we are fortunate to work with a broad diversity of Indigenous luminaries working in prose, poetry, drama, and visual art.

We have many recent titles written by and for Indigenous people we’d love to share with you to mark the occasion: Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience by Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn, and Darrell Dennis; Lha yudit’ih We Always Find A Way: Bringing the Tŝilhqot’in Title Case Home by Lorraine Weir with Chief Roger William; Iron Peggy by Marie Clements; Conversations with Khahtsahlano, 1932–1954 by Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano and Major J.S. Matthews; A Family of Dreamers by Samantha Nock; Some People Fall in the Lodge and Then Eat Berries All Winter by annie ross; Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead: ᒪᒪᐦᑖᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑯᓭᔨᒧᐤ ᓂᑭᐦᒋ ᐋᓂᐢᑯᑖᐹᐣ mamahtâwisiwin, pakosêyimow, nikihci-âniskotâpân by Wanda John-Kehewin; Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer by Kevin Loring; Gabriel Dumont’s Wild West Show by Jean Marc Dalpé, David Granger, Laura Lussier, Alexis Martin, Andrea Menard, Yvette Nolan, Gilles Poulin Denis, Paula-Jean Prudat, Mansel Robinson, and Kenneth T. Williams; and Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor.

If you’re looking for even more Indigenous titles, please check out our Indigenous catalogue here. Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!