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Indigenous Interest

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Learning With Syeyutsus Series Entering Its Third Season

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Indigenous eBooks and eAudiobooks

Explore Indigenous Futurism

Màgòdiz Cover
Màgòdiz
Love beyond body, space, and time [paperback] Cover
Love beyond body,…
This place : 150 years retold Cover
This place :…
Moonshot. Volume 1 : the indigenous comics collection Cover
Moonshot. Volume 1…
Elatsoe Cover
Elatsoe
Buffalo is the new Buffalo : stories Cover
Buffalo is the…
Love after the end : an anthology of two-spirit & indigiqueer speculative fiction Cover
Love after the…
The marrow thieves Cover
The marrow thieves
Walking the clouds : an anthology of indigenous science fiction Cover
Walking the clouds…
Trail of lightning Cover
Trail of lightning
Becoming kin : an indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future Cover
Becoming kin :…
Man made monsters Cover
Man made monsters
The peacekeeper : a novel Cover
The peacekeeper :…
Robopocalypse : a novel Cover
Robopocalypse : a…
The only good Indians : a novel Cover
The only good…
The marrow thieves Cover
The marrow thieves
Future home of the living god : a novel Cover
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Me tomorrow : Indigenous views on the future Cover
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Moon of the crusted snow : a novel Cover
Moon of the…
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New Titles in the VIRL Indigenous Collection: Adult

Bad Cree : a novel. Cover
Bad Cree :…
Johns, Jessica.
Weaving sundown in a scarlet light : fifty poems for fifty years Cover
Weaving sundown in…
Harjo, Joy, author.
Don't Fear the Reaper. Cover
Don't Fear the…
Jones, Stephen Graham.
VenCo. Cover
VenCo.
Dimaline, Cherie.
A Shadow Crown. Cover
A Shadow Crown.
Blair, Melissa.
Scars & stars : poems Cover
Scars & stars…
Thistle, Jesse, author.
Fevered star Cover
Fevered star
Roanhorse, Rebecca, author.
Kwänd??r : story (you read) Cover
Kwänd??r : story…
Pauls, Cole, author, artist.
Namwayut : we are all one : a pathway to reconciliation Cover
Namwayut : we…
Joseph, Robert, 1939- author.
Lunar tides Cover
Lunar tides
Webb-Campbell, Shannon, 1983- author.
Broken circle : the dark legacy of Indian residential schools Cover
Broken circle :…
Fontaine, Theodore, 1941- author.
Our voice of fire : a memoir of a warrior rising Cover
Our voice of…
Morin, Brandi, author.
True reconciliation : how to be a force for change Cover
True reconciliation :…
Wilson-Raybould, Jody, 1971- author.
Unbroken : My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls. Cover
Unbroken : My…
Sterritt, Angela.
Tsqelmucwílc : the Kamloops Indian Residential School--resistance and a reckoning Cover
Tsqelmucwílc : the…
Haig-Brown, Celia, 1947- author.
Namwayut : we are all one : a pathway to reconciliation Cover
Namwayut : we…
Joseph, Robert, 1939- author.
Calling for a blanket dance Cover
Calling for a…
Hokeah, Oscar, 1975- author.
Our voice of fire : a memoir of a warrior rising Cover
Our voice of…
Morin, Brandi, author.
Rehearsals for living Cover
Rehearsals for living
Maynard, Robyn, author.
Talking to the story keepers : tales from the Chilcotin Plateau Cover
Talking to the…
Birchwater, Sage, author.
Bad Cree : a novel = ?cimoi;n Cover
Bad Cree :…
Johns, Jessica, author.
A Grandmother Begins the Story. Cover
A Grandmother Begins…
Porter, Michelle.
Indigiqueerness : A Conversation about Storytelling. Cover
Indigiqueerness : A…
Whitehead, Joshua.
The theory of crows : a novel Cover
The theory of…
Robertson, David, 1977- author.
True reconciliation : how to be a force for change Cover
True reconciliation :…
Wilson-Raybould, Jody, 1971- author.
Dempsey Bob : in his own voice Cover
Dempsey Bob :…
Bob, Dempsey, 1948- author.
Kinauvit? = What's your name? : the Eskimo disc system and a daughter's search for her grandmother Cover
Kinauvit? = What's…
Dunning, Norma, author.
The theory of crows : a novel Cover
The theory of…
Robertson, David, 1977- author.
Tsqelmucwílc : the Kamloops Indian Residential School--resistance and a reckoning Cover
Tsqelmucwílc : the…
Haig-Brown, Celia, 1947- author.
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. Cover
The Lost Journals…
Earling, Debra Magpie.
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New Titles: Teen

The summer of bitter and sweet Cover
The summer of…
Ferguson, Jen, author.
As I Enfold You in Petals Cover
As I Enfold…
Van Camp, Richard.
Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants Cover
Braiding sweetgrass for…
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, author.
The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : life in Native America Cover
The heartbeat of…
Treuer, David, author.
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls. Cover
Funeral Songs for…
Dimaline, Cherie.
Visions of the Crow Cover
Visions of the…
John-Kehewin, Wanda.
A snake falls to Earth Cover
A snake falls…
Little Badger, Darcie, 1987- author.
My Indian Cover
My Indian
Joe, Mi?el, 1947- author.
Harvest House. Cover
Harvest House.
Smith, Cynthia Leitich.
Killing the Wittigo : Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing. Cover
Killing the Wittigo…
Methot, Suzanne.
Siksikaitsitapi : stories of the Blackfoot People Cover
Siksikaitsitapi : stories…
Many Guns, Payne, author.
Child of morning star : embers of an ancient dawn Cover
Child of morning…
Mountain, Antoine, 1949- author.
Finding Izzy Cover
Finding Izzy
Doherty, Sheryl, author.
My good man Cover
My good man
Gansworth, Eric, 1965- author, illustrator.
Man made monsters Cover
Man made monsters
Rogers, Andrea L., author.
The everlasting road Cover
The everlasting road
Kinew, Wab, 1981- author.
Creeboy Cover
Creeboy
Wouters, Teresa, author.
Ahiahia the orphan Cover
Ahiahia the orphan
Illuitok, Levi, author.
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New Titles: Children

Still this love goes on Cover
Still this love…
Sainte-Marie, Buffy, author.
Just Like Grandma Cover
Just Like Grandma
Rogers, Kim.
Fancy pants Cover
Fancy pants
Quigley, Dawn, author.
Together we drum, our hearts beat as one Cover
Together we drum,…
Poll, Willie, author.
Weird rules to follow Cover
Weird rules to…
Spencer, Kim, author.
The Song That Called Them Home Cover
The Song That…
Robertson, David A.
I hope Cover
I hope
Gray Smith, Monique, 1968- author.
Oolichan moon Cover
Oolichan moon
Beynon, Samantha, author.
Dancing with our ancestors Cover
Dancing with our…
Davidson, Sara Florence, 1973- author.
A magical sturgeon Cover
A magical sturgeon
Dandurand, Joseph A., author.
Walking Together Cover
Walking Together
Marshall, Albert D.
Smile So Big Cover
Smile So Big
Tenasco, Sunshine.
Beautiful you, beautiful me Cover
Beautiful you, beautiful…
Spillett-Sumner, Tasha, 1988- author.
Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior Cover
Autumn Peltier, Water…
Lindstrom, Carole.
We Belong to the Drum Cover
We Belong to…
Lamouche, Sandra.
Berry song Cover
Berry song
Goade, Michaela, author, illustrator.
With our orange hearts Cover
With our orange…
Webstad, Phyllis, author.
No Place Like Home. Cover
No Place Like…
Bird, James.
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First Voices Language Archive

Thousands of text entries in many diverse Aboriginal writing systems, enhanced with sounds, pictures, and videos.
Access: Available to anyone anywhere

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Indigenous People of North America

Indigenous Peoples: North America sources collections from across Canadian and American institutions, providing insight into the cultural, political and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth into the twentieth century.

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Kanopy

Kanopy is a video streaming platform for libraries with one of the largest and most unique collections in the world. It features more than 26,000 movies, documentaries, and indie and foreign films from hundreds of producers, including The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Kino Lorber, PBS and thousands of independent filmmakers. Browse by subjects to explore and expand your interests.

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Each library member receives ten checkouts (play credits) and two Great Courses per month. Kanopy Kids requires no play credits.
Access: Available anywhere to VIRL Resident Cardholders

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KnowBC

KnowBC is the online portal for Harbour Publishing, an independent publisher based on the Sunshine Coast that focuses on British Columbian coastal history and culture. KnowBC features the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, along with essential publications and natural history field guides for the Pacific Northwest Coast, including

  • The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names
  • Far West: The Story of British Columbia, a provincial history for younger readers
  • A Field Guide to Birds of the Pacific Northwest
  • A Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants of Canada
  • A Field Guide to Shells and Shellfish of the Pacific Northwest
  • Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes
  • Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia
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Knowledge Network

Knowledge Network, is a Canadian publicly funded educational cable television network serving the province of British Columbia. The station supports lifelong learning for children and adults by providing quality, commercial-free programming through its broadcast channel, websites and apps. Knowledge Network also invests in documentaries and children’s programs produced by independent filmmakers with more than 40% of their programming budget supporting original stories told by BC and Canadian filmmakers. Download their app and stream their content for free!
Access: Available to anyone anywhere

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Points to the Past

Points to the Past is your gateway to a world-class collection of primary sources, made up of nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content – maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, and much more. Includes historical newspaper collections from 17th & 18th centuries; archives for the Economist, Punch, the Times of London, the Times Literary Supplement, and more; collections from Associated Press, the British Library, and the Smithsonian.

For a complete list of available collections, please review the Points to the Past One-Page Flyer.

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Xwi7xwa Library

Xwi7xwa Library is a centre for academic and community Indigenous scholarship at the University of British Columbia. Its collections and services reflect Aboriginal approaches to teaching, learning, and research. Access archival material, research guides and more online at Xwi7xwa Library.
Access: Available to anyone anywhere

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