Indigenous Studies Books

A Survey of Contemporary Indians of Canada

H.B. Hawthorne, Government funded survey discovers indigenous peoples have better lives further from urban centres

The Unjust Society

Harold Cardinal, a book criticizing the white paper

Ruffled Feathers

William Wuttunee, a indigenous book in favour of the white paper

Tammarniit

“Mistakes” a book by Tester and Kulchyski about Inuit relocation history

Attanarjuat

Film by Zach Kunuk about Inuit

Stories of the Road Allowance People

Maria Campbell and Sherry Farrell Racette, on Métis

Prison of Grass

Howard Adams, first major history of Métis

Halfbreed

Maria Campbell, book that introduced people to the Métis world

In search of April Raintree

Beatrice Culleton, tells the story of Métis “passing”