Reviewed by Karl Hele Anton Treuer’s The Assassination of Hole in the Day is a marvelously researched and written examination of the rise to leadership...

Reviewed by Karl Hele Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point by Anishinaabe scholar and storyteller Gerald Vizenor is storytelling through epic poetry of the...

Reviewed by Karl Hele The Porcupine Year is the third volume by Louise Erdrich that follows the life of Omakayas. Set in 1852, Omakayas’ family...

Reviewed by Karl Hele Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is the story of Louise Erdrich’s trip from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Lake of the Woods....

Reviewed by Karl Hele Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons explores 13 different and highly summarized Indigenous stories from across...

Reviewed by Karl Hele The Scout: Tommy Prince is a graphic novel based on the true story of Tommy Prince. The novel is aimed at...

By Karl Hele Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story is a graphic novel based on the true story of Cross Lake First Nation Elder, Betty...

By Karl Hele Stories by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Jen Storm, Richard Van...

Reviewed by Karl Hele Men, Masculinity and the Indian Act is a well-written complex argument about sexism and racialization under Canada’s Indian Act. To follow...

Reviewed by Karl Hele As the sequel to The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence continues the story of Omakayas and her family on Lake...

Reviewed by Karl Hele The Birchbark House, by Anishinaabeg author Louise Erdrich, follows eight-year-old Omakayas though the course of a single year near Sault Ste....

Reviewed by Karl Hele Storm of Locusts is the second volume in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Sixth World series. The novel picks up Maggie Hoskie’s story about a...

By Karl Hele During the first week of September 1932, Garden River First Nation undertook a celebration of the 100-year anniversary of William McMurray’s arrival. The...

Reviewed by Karl Hele Michelle Lomberg’s The Ojibwa is part of the American Indian Art and Culture series. This book has plenty of colour illustrations...

Reviewed by Karl Hele The Ojibwe: The Past and Present of the Anishinaabe is part of the American Indian Life series published under the Fact...