Rebecca Thomas shares her book recommendations for National Indigenous History Month
CBC Radio | Posted: June 17, 2020 2:13 PM | Last Updated: June 17, 2020
June is National Indigenous History Month and in celebration, we invited a special book columnist, Rebecca Thomas, to recommend some of her top picks by Indigenous authors.
Thomas is a Mi'kmaw author and poet from Dartmouth, N.S., and the former poet laureate of Halifax. She published her first children's picture book last fall, called I'm Finding My Talk.
Below are the books Thomas discussed with q's Tom Power:
- The Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- Shadows Cast by Stars by Catherine Knutsson
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