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Anishinaabe /Ojibwe

Indians Don't Cry by George Kenny; Patricia M. Ningewance (Translator); Renate Eigenbrod (Afterword by)
Call Number: PS 8571 E63 I5165 2014
One Native Life by Richard Wagamese
Call Number: E-book & E 99 C6 W338 2008

Cree / Nehiyawak

Roast moose & rosaries : Fred & Mary's story by Fred Courtoreille
Call Number: E 99 C88 C68 1997
The Hollow Tree by Herb Nabigon
Call Number: E 78 C2 N23 2006
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
Call Number: E 96.5 M47 2015
Up Ghost River: a chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history by Edmund Metatawabin
Call Number: E 99 C88 M483 2014
Creating Space by Verna J. Kirkness: my life and work in Indigenous education
Call Number: LA 2325 K52 A3 2013
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod
Call Number: E 99 C88 M346 2018
Mitoni Niya Nêhiyaw / Cree Is Who I Truly Am by Sarah Whitecalf (As told by); H. C. Wolfart (Edited and Translated by); Freda Ahenakew (Edited and Translated by); Ted Whitecalf (Preface by)
Call Number: E-book

Dene

Northern wildflower : a memoir by Catherine Lafferty
Call Number: E 99 C59 L34 2018

Gitxsan / Gitxaała / Tsimshian

Mapping my way home : a Gitxsan history by Sterritt, Neil J.
Call Number: FC 3849 H39 S74 2016
People of the Saltwater: : an ethnography of git lax m'oon by Charles R. Menzies
Call Number: E-book
What we learned : two generations reflect on Tsimshian education and the day schools by Raptis, Helen
Call Number: E 96.65 B7 R36 2016

Haida

During my time : Florence Edenshaw Davidson, a Haida woman by Margaret B. Blackman
Call Number: E 99 H2 B524 1992

Haudenosaune

A Mind Spread out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
Call Number: E 78 C2 E555 2019

Inuit

Thrasher : skid row Eskimo by Anthony Apakark Thrasher
Call Number: E 99 E7 T57
Life among the Qallunaat by Mini Aodla Freeman
Call Number: E 99 E7 F727 2015 and E-book
Saqiyuq: stories from the lives of three Inuit women
Call Number: E 99 E7 W33 1999

Kwakiutl

Assu of Cape Mudge : recollections of a coastal Indian Chief by Harry Assu
Call Number: E-book & E 99 K9 A77 1989
Guests never leave hungry : the autobiography of James Sewid, a Kwakiutl Indian by James. Sewid
Call Number: E 99 K9 S49 1972
The Sasquatch at Home by Eden Robinson
Call Number: PS 8585 O3484 Z78 2011

More by Eden Robinson

My life in a Kwagu'l big house [electronic resource] by Diane Jacobson
Call Number: E-book

Kwakwaka’wakw

Paddling to Where I Stand: Agnes Alfred, Qwiqwasutinuxw noblewoman
Call Number: E 99 K9 A43 2004

Kanien:keha’ka / Mohawk

Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl by Anahareo; Sophie McCall (Introduction by)
Call Number: E 90 G7 A62 2014

Metis

Thunder through my veins : memories of a Métis childhood by Gregory A. Scofield
Call Number: PS 8587 C64 Z53 1999
Chiefly Indian : the warm and witty story of a British Columbia half breed logger by Henry George Pennier
Call Number: E 99 S2 P46
Bobbi Lee : struggles of a native Canadian woman by Bobbi Lee
Call Number: E 78 C2 L44 v. 1
Halfbreed by Campbell, Maria
Call Number: PS 8555 A67 H3
Lake of the Prairies : a story of belonging by Warren Cariou
Call Number: PS 8555 A736 L34 2002

Mi'kmaq

Mi'kmaq family [videorecording] = Migmaoei otjiosog by Catherine Martin
Call Number: VIDEO ON THE INTERNET
Song of Rita Joe : autobiography of a Mi'kmaq poet by Rita Joe
Call Number: PS 8569 O4 Z53 1996

Okanagan

My people, myself by Mary Lawrence
Call Number: PS 8573 A9114 Z53 1996
Q'sapi : a history of Okanagan people as told by Okanagan families by Shirley Louis
Call Number: E 99 O53 Q82 2002

Nootka

As far as I know : reminiscences of an Ahousat elder by Peter S. Webster
Call Number: E 99 N85 W43 1983
Queesto, Pacheenaht chief by birthright by Charles Jones
Call Number: E 99 N85 J66

Salish

Mourning Dove : a Salishan autobiography by Mourning Dove
Call Number: E 99 S21 M68 1990

Secwepemc / Shuswap

Behind closed doors : stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School by Agnes S. Jack
Call Number: E 96.6 K34 B45 2006
The days of Augusta by Augusta Evans
Call Number: PS 8509 V36 D39
They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars
Call Number: E 96.6 S154 S44 2013

Sliammon

Written As I Remember It: Teachings from the life of a Sliammon Elder by Elsie Paul; Paige Raibmon (As told to); Harmony Johnson (As told to)
Call Number: E 99 C86 P39 2014

Squamish

Khot-La-Cha : the autobiography of Chief Simon Baker by Simon Baker
Call Number: E 78 B9 B35 1994

Stó:lō

Amongst God's Own by Terry Glavin; St. Mary's Indian Residential School Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: E 96.6 S16 G52 2002
Remembering the sacred time of elders : 25th annual gathering of First Nations elders : silver anniversary souvenir book
Call Number: E 99 S72 R46 2001
Xwelíqwiya, The life of a Stó:lõ matriarch
Call Number: E 99 S72 P64 2013 & E-book

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Courage to speak : honouring ancestors voices by Siyamtelot Shirley Leon, with Sharon Syrette for the Aboriginal Genealogy Association
Call Number: PM 2381 S8 L46 2020
Call Me Hank by Keith Thor Carlson (Editor); Kristina Fagan (Editor)
Call Number: E 78 B9 P466 2006
Being Ts'Elxwéyeqw by David M. Schaepe (Editor); Tselxwéyeqw Tribe
Call Number: E 78 B9 B45 2017

Tenton Sioux

Land of the Spotted Eagle by Luther Standing Bear
Call Number: E 99 T34 S7 2006

Tlingit

Blonde Indian : an Alaska Native memoir by Ernestine Hayes
Call Number: E 99 T6 H39 2006

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