Indigenous Nonfiction

Unbroken is an extraordinary work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, written by an award-winning Gitxsan journalist who survived life on the streets against all odds.

A historical non-fiction book set in the Pacific Northwest region of North America during the late 18th to early 19th century. Embark on a captivating journey through "The Early Pacific Northwest," where the rugged beauty of the landscape intertwines with the dramatic tales of explorers, traders, and Indigenous peoples as they navigate the treacherous waters of colonial ambition. This meticulously researched account brings to life the era of European exploration, detailing the fierce competition for territory and resources that defined these pivotal years in American history. Through vivid ...

Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape.

"An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York Times A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most...

They walked a thousand miles to find a harbor that didn't exist. They found San Francisco Bay instead. They didn't want it. In 1769, a Spanish expedition of sixty-four men left San Diego under orders to locate the harbor of Monterey. Their engineer, Miguel Costansó, kept a diary of measurements: distances, latitudes, the depth of every pool, the height of a dead grizzly bear. He did not record feelings. He recorded facts. The facts are these: the men walked for six months through canyons and mountains and fog. They ate their mules when the food ran out. Seventeen soldiers were crippled by ...

New York Times Bestseller This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th...

CANADA’S DARKEST: CANADIAN TRUE CRIME THROUGH DARK GEOGRAPHY Between Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the Highway of Tears, and the Miramichi forest, Canada’s vast geography has shaped some of the nation’s most notorious serial killers and true crime cases. This groundbreaking work of Canadian true crime nonfiction reveals how distance, isolation, infrastructure failure, and landscape itself became accomplices to murder. Unlike traditional true crime books focused solely on psychology, Canada’s Darkest examines how geography shapes crime in Canada—determining who is vulnerable, ...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER SHORTLISTED FOR THE TOM WOLFE PRIZE FOR REPORTAGE A lost tradition of "toad medicine," a global psychedelic movement, and the charismatic doctor who left a trail of destruction in his wake “Entirely mesmerizing. . . . Richly...

“Thought-provoking—a must read for [everyone] seeking a firm grasp of accurate American history." —Kirkus (starred review) Brilliant, readable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic...

Learn the true stories of Indian boarding school students and their families in this important historical book for young readers. This in-depth history examines letters to and from boarding schools, all compiled and edited by Dr. Brenda J. Child. Firsthand accounts reveal how profoundly entire...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE The first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine ...

A guide to integrating indigenous thinking into modern life for a more interconnected and spiritual relationship with our fellow beings, Mother Earth, and the natural ways of the universe. There is a natural law—a spiritual intelligence that we are all born with that lies within our hearts...

YOU THINK YOU KNOW CANADA? THINK AGAIN. Beyond the polite smiles, maple syrup, and hockey rinks lies a country stranger, wilder, and more mysterious than you ever imagined. Weird and Wonderful Canada is not a dry history textbook. It is a curated collection of the 100 most mind-bending, bizarre, and "no-way-that's-true" stories from the Great White North. From billion-year-old cosmic impacts to secret underground metropolises, this book peels back the layers of the world’s second-largest country to reveal the magic hiding in plain sight. Inside, you’ll discover: The Desert in the Snow: ...

A stunning narrative from one of the most powerful young writers at work today, and the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Sugarcane, We Survived the Night interweaves oral history with hard-hitting journalism and a deeply personal father-son journey into a searing portrait of...

The Histories Of All The Canadian Provinces In One Blockbuster Volume Canada is not one story. It is ten provinces and three territories, each with its own ancient landscapes, founding peoples, contested histories, and hard-won identities. In this landmark work, Daniel Hardy brings them all together for the first time — a sweeping, authoritative account of how a nation was made, one province at a time. From the windswept headlands of Newfoundland, where rock two billion years old meets the ghost of a Viking settlement, to the river valleys of Prince Edward Island, the industrial ...

From a brilliant, young, Harvard-trained anthropologist and contributor to The New Yorker comes a fascinating investigation into the spiritual practice of shamanism, from its beginnings to the present moment, for readers disaffected with organized religion who seek a more personal approach to...

A deeply intimate portrait of the lives of four men that examines—in profound and comprehensive ways—what it means to be a man in America. They wield outsized power across all major institutions. They are falling behind across all measures of well-being and success. They include loving...

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. This act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the definition of justice in early America. Leading historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, bringing us into the overlapping worlds of white colonists and Indigenous peoples in this formative period.

From rumors of lost Amazonian cities of gold to the silver running through the mountains of Bolivia, hopes for dazzling wealth fueled the imperial fantasies of the Tudors and Stuarts. Stories of treasure ships and the feats of privateers from Francis Drake to Walter Raleigh have become...