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Caption: The Blue Jay's Dance is Louise Erdrich's first major work of nonfiction. (Harper Perennial/Viking/University of Regina Press)

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Caption: They Called Me Number One won the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. (Penguin Canada/Talon Books/Douglas & McIntyre)

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Caption: Chantal Kreviazuk championed The Right to Be Cold on Canada Reads 2017. (Nonvella Publishing/Penguin Canada/Purich Publishing)

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Caption: Up Ghost River was a finalist for the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction. (Goodread Biography/Vintage/University of Nebraska Press)

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Caption: Life Among the Qallunaat is the third book in the First Voices, First Texts series, which publishes under appreciated texts by Indigenous writers. (University of Oklahoma Press/Coteau Books/University of Manitoba Press)