news | Saturday June 21, 2025

National Indigenous Peoples Day 2025

June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day! We have the great pleasure of working with a number of brilliant Indigenous creatives at the forefront of their fields. Here are a handful of Indigenous-authored titles, some brand new and some from the vault, that we love. Guaranteed to enrich any bookshelf or TBR pile, check out the following works of poetry, drama, and nonfiction.

Check out Copper Thunderbird by Marie Clements, a play on canvases based on the life of renowned and notorious artist Norval Morrisseau; Uiesh / Somewhere, a dual-language collection of poetry in Innu-aimun and English by Joséphine Bacon and translated by Jessica Moore; ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ kiskisomitok: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ to remind each and one other by nêhîyaw educator ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ reuben quinn, a new work of nonfiction which uses the spirit marker writing system as a foundation for teaching ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ nêhîyawewin; Pots and Other Living Beings, an outstanding collection of poetry and photography by annie ross; the forthcoming play White Noise by the late, great Taran Kootenhayoo; award-winning poetry book The Place of Scraps by Jordan Abel; outstanding comedy Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout by Tomson Highway; multi-award winning play Where the Blood Mixes by Kevin Loring; moving feminist poetry text An Honest Woman by Jónína Kirton; and brand new dark real estate/intersectionality comedy Open House by Drew Hayden Taylor.

If you’re looking for further Indigenous-authored books, take a look at our Indigenous catalogue. Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!