Michelle St. John
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"Métis millennial Lucky St. James is bored. She lives with her cantankerous grandmother, Stella, in a tiny Toronto apartment and has been waiting for something to happen--something different, something more. Then, one night, a strange and irresistible impulse seizes Lucky. She burrows into an old passageway and finds a tarnished silver spoon, humming with otherworldly energy, etched with a long-nosed witch and the word SALEM. Lucky has no idea that...
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A brilliant new Indigenous voice makes her American debut with this kinetic and imaginative novel inspired by the traditional Canadian Métis legend of the rogarou -- a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Native people's communities. Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year. Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways...until...
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French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
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"It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer." So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided opportunities for individuals, families, and communities
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