They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

10 best books like They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School (Bev Sellars): Indian Horse, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Keeper'n Me, Split Tooth, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, Half-Breed, Fatty Legs: A True Story, The Reason You Walk, Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada, Starlight

Indian Horse
AuthorRichard Wagamese
ISBN1553654021
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his...
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
AuthorThomas King
ISBN0385674058
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize

The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North...
AuthorRichard Wagamese
ISBN0385254520
When Garnet Raven was three years old, he was taken from his home on an Ojibway Indian reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. Having reached his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity, only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city.

Having skirted the...
AuthorTanya Tagaq
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.

Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous....
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
AuthorTanya Talaga
ISBN1487002262
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied.

More than a quarter of a century later,...
AuthorMaria Campbell
ISBN0887801161
Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Métis woman's struggle to come to terms with the joys, sorrows, loves and tragedies of her northern Saskatchewan childhood.

Maria was a strong and sensitive child who lived in a community robbed of its pride and dignity by the...
Fatty Legs: A True Story
AuthorChristy Jordan-Fenton
ISBN1554512476
The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact.

Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let...
AuthorWab Kinew
ISBN0670069345
A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic Aboriginal star.

When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised...
Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
AuthorPaulette Regan
In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose goal was to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that engineered the system. In Unsettling...
Starlight
AuthorRichard Wagamese
ISBN0771070845
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, centres on an abused woman on the run who finds refuge on a farm owned by an Indigenous man with wounds of his own. A profoundly moving novel about the redemptive...
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