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About the First Nations Métis Inuit Newsletter This NextReads newsletter consists of a selection of the First Nation Communities Read - 2018/2019 Longlist of Nominated Titles. Each First Nations M étis Inuit NextReads newsletter attempts to include a title created by First Nations, M étis, and Inuit creators. Some newsletter issues may not include a creator from each of First Nations, M étis, and Inuit communities due to the greater number of First Nations authors, poets, graphic novelists, and illustrators represented on the First Nation Communities Read - 2018/2019 Longlist of Nominated Titles. The Guelph community acknowledges and honours the creations of all Indigenous nations equally. In Indigenous ways of living and learning, each story has and gifts its own voice. The shared voices of the storyteller, creator, author, illustrator are unique gifts too. Likewise, if you receive these ‘story gifts’, your voice has its own unique response. Along with a summary, each book listed in NextReads includes an acknowledgement of all the creators. And to show reciprocal respect, the voices and reflections of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit who live in Guelph and area are shared as well. First Nation Communities Read First Nation Communities Read is an annual reading program launched in 2003 by the First Nations public library community in Ontario. First Nation Communities Read selected and other recommended titles: - encourage family literacy, intergenerational storytelling, and intergenerational information sharing;
- are written and/or illustrated by, or otherwise involve the participation of a First Nation, Métis, or Inuit creator;
- contain First Nation, Métis, or Inuit content produced with the support of First Nation, Métis, or Inuit advisers/consultants or First Nation, Métis, or Inuit endorsement.
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Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi Anthology
by Hope Nicholson (editor) and the creators listed below (contributors)
Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time is a collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantasy focusing on LGBT and two-spirit characters. These stories range from a transgender woman undergoing an experimental transition process to young lovers separated through decades and meeting in their own far future. These are stories of machines and magic, love and self-love.
The Creators: All of the stories in this collection are by indigenous writers, LGBT and/or two-spirit and their allies, and they deliberately employ science fiction as a way of imagining a future that is positively indigenous and positively LGBT, but also simply, plainly positive. The creators are Grace Dillon, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair,.Richard Van Camp, Cherie Dimaline, David Robertson, Daniel Heath Justice, Darcie Little Badger, Gwen Benaway, Mari Kurisato, Nathan Adler, Cleo Keahna, and Jeffrey Veregge.
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When We Were Alone
by David Alexander Robertson (writer) and Julie Flett (illustrator)
When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden, she begins to notice things about her grandmother that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long braided hair and wear beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where everything was taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history and, ultimately, a story of empowerment and strength.
The Creators: David A. Robertson is an award-winning writer. His books include When We Were Alone (winner Governor General’s Literary Award), Will I See? (winner Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Award Graphic Novel Category), Betty, The Helen Betty Osborne Story (listed In The Margins), and the YA novel Strangers. David educates as well as entertains through his writings about Indigenous Peoples in Canada, reflecting their cultures, histories, communities, as well as illuminating many contemporary issues. David is a member of Norway House Cree Nation. He lives in Winnipeg.
Julie Flett is an award-winning Cree-Metis author, illustrator and artist. She has received many awards, including the 2016 American Indian Library Association Award for Best Picture Book for Little You, written by Richard Van Camp (Orca Books), and the Canadian Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Award in 2015 for Dolphins SOS, written by Roy Miki (Tradewind Books) and in 2017 for My Heart Fills with Happiness, written by Monique Gray Smith (Orca Books), and was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature for her book Owls See Clearly at Night (Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer): A Michif Alphabet (L’alphabet di Michif). Her own Wild Berries (Simply Read Books) was chosen as Canada’s First Nation Communities Read title selection for 2014-2015.
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Seven Fallen Feathers : Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
by Tanya Talaga
Over the span of ten years, seven high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave their reserve because there was no high school there for them to attend. Award-winning journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest, and struggle with, human rights violations past and present against aboriginal communities.
The Creator: Tanya Talaga has been a journalist at the Toronto Star for twenty years, covering everything from general city news to education, national healthcare, foreign news, and Indigenous affairs. She has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism, and she is the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy. Talaga is of Polish and Indigenous descent. Her great-grandmother, Liz Gauthier, was a residential school survivor. Her great-grandfather, Russell Bowen, was an Ojibwe trapper and labourer. Her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation. Her mother was raised in Raith and Graham, Ontario. Talaga lives in Toronto with her two teenage children.
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