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CBC Books: F-bombs at the opera? Empire of Wild does things differently #CanLit #IndigenousLit #Opera
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F-bombs at the opera? Empire of Wild does things differently | CBC News
It started as a chart-topping book with sex, booze, magic and politics. Now, The Canadian Opera Company has commissioned an Indigenous-led creative team to turn the book Empire of Wild into an opera, ...
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August 25, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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It's been a few years but David Heska Wanbli Weiden is back with Wisdom Corner. He discussed it @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social. Signed books available. Watch the video! #BookSky #IndigenousLit shorturl.at/rwAC0
book jacket - David Heska Wanbli Weiden's novel, Wisdom Corner
July 22, 2026 at 1:55 PM
startlinglytrue.bsky.social
Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #IndigenousLit #Historical #Literary#LouiseErdrich

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The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
What happens when a trained killer discovers, in the aftermath of war, that his true vocation is ...
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June 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
andersongl.bsky.social
New #picturebook review What’s Not Wrong? HERE COME THE AUNTIES by @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social illus by @aphelandraw.bsky.social #nativeamericanlit #indigenouslit #kidlit whatsnotwrong.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/r...
Review: HERE COME THE AUNTIES! by Cynthia Leitich Smith, illustrated by Aphelandra
Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Here Come the Aunties! (Heartdrum / HarperCollins) is a warm, delightful picture book celebrating Indigenous heritage as expressed through the ubiquitous presence of Aunties…
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April 17, 2026 at 2:37 AM
girlswagger101.bsky.social
I’m #CurrentlyReading: Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron, and Beaver Hills Forever by Conor Kerr #IndigenousLit #books 💙📚
April 2, 2026 at 5:26 PM
startlinglytrue.bsky.social
Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #IndigenousLit #Poetry #History #Race #JoyHarjo

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An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo
A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed...
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March 2, 2026 at 9:39 PM
ananasparachute.bsky.social
I relate to this so much; I also have the layer that I am #urban #metis and white in appearance with a #settler paternal heritage.
#Lateralviolence needs to stop. It was #colonialism that divided our people, not #Indigenous ourselves.

#marilyndumont #poetry #indigenouslit #canlit #identity
“Leather and Naughahyde” by Marilyn Dumont So, I'm having coffee with this treaty guy from up north and we're laughing at how crazy ‘the mooniyaw’ are in the city and the con- versation comes around to where I'm from, as it does in under- ground languages, in the oblique way it does to find out someone's status without actually asking, and knowing this, I say I'm Metis like it’s an apology and he says, ‘mmh,’ like he forgives me, like he’s got a big heart and mine's pumping diluted blood and his voice has sounded well-fed up till this point, but now it goes thin like he’s across the room taking another look and when he returns he’s got ‘this look,’ that says he’s leather and I'm naughahyde. Reprinted with permission from A Really Good Brown Girl (London: Brick, 1996, p. 58).
February 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
ananasparachute.turtleisland.social.ap.brid.gy
I relate to this so much; I also have the layer that I am #urban #metis and white in appearance with a #settler paternal heritage.
#lateralviolence needs to stop. It was #colonialism that divided our people, not #indigenous ourselves.

#marilyndumont #poetry #indigenouslit #canlit #identity
“Leather and Naughahyde” by Marilyn Dumont So, I'm having coffee with this treaty guy from up north and we're laughing at how crazy ‘the mooniyaw’ are in the city and the con- versation comes around to where I'm from, as it does in under- ground languages, in the oblique way it does to find out someone's status without actually asking, and knowing this, I say I'm Metis like it’s an apology and he says, ‘mmh,’ like he forgives me, like he’s got a big heart and mine's pumping diluted blood and his voice has sounded well-fed up till this point, but now it goes thin like he’s across the room taking another look and when he returns he’s got ‘this look,’ that says he’s leather and I'm naughahyde. Reprinted with permission from A Really Good Brown Girl (London: Brick, 1996, p. 58).
February 8, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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"I am first and foremost #IndigenousLit. #CanLit can claim me as their own if they want, but I have an artist's fee for that." - @JWhitehead204
January 29, 2026 at 7:35 AM
startlinglytrue.bsky.social
Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋 #MG #IndigenousLit #Fantasy #DavidARobertson

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The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson
Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle grade...
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January 6, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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Currently Reading #Books #BookSky📚💙🦋#IndigenousLit #Literary #MagicalRealism #JessicaJohns

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Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:45 AM
nicolermisra.bsky.social
Week 4 of Native American Heritage Month! #IndigenousLit #IndigenousAuthors #IndigenousIllustrators
Alt text: Native American Heritage Month Book Suggestions Alt text: This slide features the book WHEREAS: Poems written by Layli Long Soldier. My comment reads: “A poetic dialogue with the US government’s attempts at apology and reparation” Alt text: This slide features the book Berry Song written and illustrated by Michaela Goade
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Happy third week of Native American Heritage Month! Here are my book suggestions for this week. #OwnVoices #IndigenousLit
Alt text: Native American Heritage Month Book Suggestions Alt text: This slide features the book The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation written by Alice B. McGinty and illustrated by Shonto Begay Alt text: This slide features the book Braiding Sweetgrass written by Robin Wall Kimmerer. My comment reads: “A beautiful set of essays on caring for and being in relationship with the earth”
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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For Native American Heritage Month, I’m finally getting around to reading “There There” by Tommy Orange. I’m only 120 pgs in and my heart already hurts.

That prologue though…💔

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November 11, 2025 at 7:37 AM
nicolermisra.bsky.social
Week of Native American Heritage Month book suggestions! #IndigenousLit #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Alt Text 1: This slide reads Native American Heritage Month Book Suggestions Alt text: This slide features the book There There written by Tommy Orange. My comment reads: “Orange deftly weaves multiple stories of younger and older Native people together as they all converge on the Big Oakland Powwow” Alt text: This slide features the book Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge written by Deidre Havrelock and Edward Kay
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
nicolermisra.bsky.social
Happy Native American Heritage Month! I'll be posting books written or illustrated by and about Indigenous people across the Americas this month. #IndigenousLit #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Slide reads: Native American Heritage Month Book Suggestions Alt text: This slide features the book Indian No More written by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell. My comment reads: “Do you know about tribal termination during the 1950s? Read about an Umpqua family after the U.S. government terminates their tribal recognition.” Alt text: This slide features the book Crossing Bok Chitto written by Tim Tingle and illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges. My comment reads: “A Choctaw girl helps an enslaved family emancipate themselves”
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
chenoamatthews.bsky.social
Some other #IndigenousLit in the dark fiction genre I have enjoyed: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (2020), Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (2018) (Waub also has a great story called Limbs in Never Whistle At Night), and currently reading Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (2023).
October 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🎉 Preorders are Open!! 🎉

We are honored to share CEKPA: A MEMOIR IN BEADED ESSAYS, written by Leah Altman.
What does it mean to reclaim your name, your language, or your story?

#IndigenousLit #Memoir #AdopteeVoices #OoliganPress #Cekpa
Teal background with white floral outlines. Center features the Cekpa Book cover, titled 'Cekpa: A Memoir in Beaded Essays' by Leah Altman. Release: November 11, 2025. Preorder now.
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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📚 Award-winning author Joseph Dandurand returns with I Would Like to Say Thank You—a powerful new poetry collection exploring trauma, love, grief, and forgiveness.
Interview by Michelle Hardy for the Victoria Festival of Authors.
#JosephDandurand #VFA2025 #IndigenousLit #CanadianPoetry
Q&A with Joseph Dandurand
Building on his legacy as a skilled storyteller, award-winning author Joseph Dandurand continues to write about trauma, love, grief and forgiveness in his latest poetry collection I Would Like to S…
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September 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
lpgcanada.bsky.social
❄️ Moon of the Crusted Snow by ‪@waub.bsky.social‬ (@ecwpress.bsky.social)

A chilling literary thriller about a Northern Anishinaabe community facing a mysterious societal collapse.

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#lpg50 #canlit #bestsellers #thriller #indigenouslit
A 50 Books for 50 Years graphic featuring the cover of Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice. The cover design depicts a minimalist, snowy winter scene with barren trees and telephone poles. Near the bottom of the cover is an illustration of a van half-buried in deep snow. The title is written across the cover in large grey font, and at the top is a quote from Eden Robinson reading, “Chilling in the best way possible.” The author’s name appears at the bottom in uppercase letters. The text reads: “Literary Press Group of Canada, Celebrating 50 Years Supporting Literature. ECW Press.”
July 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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💭 The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (@cormorantbooks.bsky.social)

This dystopian YA novel follows Indigenous youth on the run in a future where their bone marrow carries the key to humanity’s survival.

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#lpg50 #canlit #bestsellers #ya #indigenouslit
A 50 Books for 50 Years graphic featuring the cover of The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. The cover includes a left-aligned, close-up photo of an Indigenous youth’s face with a streak of white paint across their cheek, set against a dark blue background. The title appears at the bottom in yellow and white text with “The #1 National Bestseller” above it. The text reads: “Literary Press Group of Canada, Celebrating 50 Years Supporting Literature. Cormorant Books.”
July 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
secondstory.bsky.social
A celebration of Cree craftsmanship, language, and learning.

Learn about Indigenous beadwork in What’s in a Bead? by Kelsey Borgford and illustrated by Tessa Pizzale!

Stay tuned for the the French edition, Le pouvoir d’une perle, publishing this fall on October 6, 2025!

#IndigenousLit #BookSky
June 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
jbharrisauthor.bsky.social
Looking for @creenomad, author of Hey June! I’d love to feature the book as our next #FutureFamousAuthor pick. If you know them, help me connect—promise it’s not a scam, just book love. 💛📚

#CreeAuthor #IndigenousLit #ReadNative #IndieAuthor #BookTok
June 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
jbharrisauthor.bsky.social
✨ Just reviewed a 4+ star read rooted in Native culture and storytelling. Authentic, powerful, and deeply satisfying—this one sticks with you. Highly recommend. 📚

#BookReview #NativeVoices #IndigenousLit #BIPOCBooks #AmReading #BookRec #OwnVoices #FictionMatters #ReadersOfX #BlueskyBooks #TBR
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Starting a new read that explores Native themes—really looking forward to learning more through story. Meanwhile, my dog is passed out like he’s the one doing the emotional work. 😅📚 #BookTok #ShowMeYourBookmark #CurrentRead #TBRPile #IndigenousLit #read #readers #reading #book #books #bookish #fyp
June 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM