Books like Mamaskatch by Darrel J. McLeod

In a world where global warming has erased dreaming, a group of Indigenous teens discover their bone marrow—and the dreams it contains—hold the key to salvation, while hunters pursue them to harvest that cure.

Set after a global collapse, the story follows an Anishinaabe reserve where winter and dwindling supplies force the community to confront outsiders, internal strife, and the need to reclaim traditional ways.

Saul, a young Ojibwa boy, is separated from his family, sent to a brutal off‑reservation boarding school, and finds only hockey as a path to redemption amid racism and trauma.

A moving true account of a Chinese family split across continents, as Denise Chong traces her grandmother’s journey from concubine in China to tea‑house worker in Canada and reunites long‑lost siblings.

In Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior's Life & Legacy, the Edward Clown family, descendants of the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways, the Clown family's oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Crazy Horse. The family clarifies the inaccuracies and shares their story about the past, including what it means to them to be Lakota, the family genealogy, the life of Crazy Horse and his motivations, his death, and why they chose to keep quiet with their knowledge for so long before finally deciding to tell the truth as they know it.

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. 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. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and in her teen years became alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counselor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay. Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.

"The Inheritance of Shame" recounts Peter Gajdics’s six‑year ordeal in a British Columbia conversion‑therapy program, set against a family history marked by war, incarceration, and trauma, and explores the lasting effects of repressive practices on identity and resilience.