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• Making Love With the Land

  Essays

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  Whitehead boldly shares his story of an Indigenous body in pain and coping with trauma while still nourishing a lust for life in this world.

• Bad Indians

  a Tribal Memoir

  Miranda, Deborah A.,

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  "This beautiful and devastating book--part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir--should be required reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present." (Novelist)

• Circle of Love

  Gray Smith, Monique, 1968-

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  A child visits an intertribal community center, and everyone and everything she sees there reminds her that 'love is love'.

• Spaces Between Us

  Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization

  Morgensen, Scott Lauria

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  Morgensen examines the connections of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States.

• Indigiqueerness

  a Conversation About Storytelling

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  Part dialogue, part memoir, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits.

• Sisters of the Lost Nation

  Medina, Nick,

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  This mystery features a two spirit character who is finding her place in the world while trying to get to the bottom of the disappearances of girls, including her sister.

• The Way of Thorn and Thunder

  the Kynship Chronicles

  Justice, Daniel Heath,

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  Set in a world resembling 18th century North America, this adventure tale bends genre and gender as it tells the story of the struggle for the green world of the Everland, home of the forest-dwelling Kyn.

• Màgòdiz

  Calderón, Gabe

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  In this novel of Indigenous futurism, Two-Spirit, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and disabled characters – survivors of a devastating war – fight to save what’s left of their world.

• It Was Never Going to Be Okay

  simpson, jaye,

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  A collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing urban Indigenous diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman.

• IRL

  Pico, Tommy,

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  Composed as a long text message, this poem asks what happens to a modern, queer indigenous person a few generations after his ancestors were alienated from their language, their religion, and their history.

• Mamaskatch

  a Cree Coming of Age

  McLeod, Darrel J.,

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  In this memoir about the powerful ties of family and culture, the author explores issues including abuse, gender fluidity, and identity.

• Peyakow

  Reclaiming Cree Dignity

  Darrel, McLeod

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  A follow up to Mamaskatch, this memoir recounts the author's adult life.

• Nîtisânak

  Morgan, Jas M., 1987-

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  "Nîtisânak honours blood and chosen kin with equal care. A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, it is woven around grief over the loss of their mother...Using cyclical narrative techniques and drawing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fire Song

  Jones, Adam Garnet,

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  “Complex, vulnerable emotion is embedded within the specificity of the writing in this dramatic prose debut. Jones avoids clichés of reservation life, humanizing the stories of how his people reconcile the trauma of suicide, missing family members,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Wound Is a World

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  Part manifesto, part memoir, this book is an invitation into a world of decolonial love and sex in hopes of understanding sadness and pain often shouldered by Indigenous people.

• Jonny Appleseed

  Whitehead, Joshua

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  Jonny is a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer who becomes a cybersex worker in order to make a living in the city. The author is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation.

• Full-metal Indigiqueer

  Poems

  Whitehead, Joshua (Writer),

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  Whitehead is a two-spirit storyteller and academic. This collection of poetry serves to focus and re-center two-spirit Indigenous lives that have been silenced, pushed to the edge, or simply forgotten.

• Love After the End

  An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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  This groundbreaking anthology of Two-Spirit and queer (2SQ) Indigenous speculative fiction. Through fantastical stories, readers explore themes of resilience, resistance and love in the face of colonialism.

• In Her I Am

  Chrystos, 1946-

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  The author is a Menominee writer and two-spirit activist who has published various books and poems that explore indigenous civil rights, social justice, and feminism.

• A Two-Spirit Journey

  the Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

  Chacaby, Ma-Nee, 1950-

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  "From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby's story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism."