Indigenous authors talk about their latest books

The annual Toronto Word on the Street festival drew thousands of fans in fall 2017. People packed the downtown Harbourfront Centre grounds browsing among the many book sellers and tents full of literary activities on a searing hot Sunday afternoon.

The 28th annual event included its first stage dedicated solely to Indigenous authors.

In a corner of the crowded festival stood a small tent for Indigenous authors on stage to talk with an enthusiastic audience. It was the first time the 28th annual event included an Indigenous Voices stage. -- Read more: Indigenous authors talk about reconciliation

The authors for the most part read from recent books and had lively discussions with the audience.

Here are recent books by Indigenous authors that First Stories spoke with at the festival. Some of these authors can be seen on our website, talking about the impact of residential schools and paths to reconciliation.

1. Glass Beads - by Dawn Dumont

2. Stolen Words - by Melanie Florence

3. Those who Run in the Sky - by Aviaq Johnston

4. My Conversations with Canadians - by Lee Maracle

5. An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature - by Daniel David Moses, Terry Goldie and Armand Garnet Ruffo

6. Algonquin Sunset - by Rick Revelle

7. The Water Walker - by Joanne Robertson

8. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City - by Tanya Talaga

9. Take Us to Your Chief: And Other Stories - by Drew Hayden Taylor

10. Akilak’s Adventure - Deborah Kigjugalik Webster

Here are a few authors and books recommended by some of the writers:

• Eden Robinson, Tomson Highway, Rosanna Deerchild, Richard Van Camp and Thomas King (fiction and non-fiction)

• The Inconvenient Indian - by Thomas King

• The Right to be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet - by Sheila Watt-Cloutier

• A Promise is a Promise - by Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak

• Give Me My Father’s Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo - by Ken Harper

• Algonquin Spring and I am Algonquin - both by Rick Revelle

• Stolen Continents - by Ronald Wright

• Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier - by Richard Berleth:

• The White and the Gold - by Thomas b. Costain

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