Petrone, Penny. 1996 (Reprint.). First People, First Voices. University of Toronto Press. ISBN: 0-8010-6562-7
Age: 16+
Language: English
Subject: Adult; Anthology; Multiple Nations

Penny Petrone presents a selection of writing and speeches by First Nations in Canada from the 1690s to the 1980s. The purpose is to show the foundation and development of Native literary traditions in English. The collection includes prose, poetry, letters, speeches, sermons, reports, petitions, diary entries, songs, essays, journal and travel writing, history and autobiography.

Petrone, Penny. 1992. Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English. University of Toronto Press. ISBN: 0-8020-7717-X
Age: 16+
Language: English
Subject: Adult; Anthology; Arctic, Inuit.

This selection ranges from a few sentences by an explorer to modern poems and speeches. It deals with oral traditions, personal accounts and modern writing.

Philip, Neil. (Ed.) Illustrator/ Maryclare Foa. Songs are Thoughts: Poems of the Inuit. Doubleday Canada. ISBN:
Age: 6+
Language: English
Subject: Children; Poetry; Arctic; Inuit

The songs are mostly a translation of the poems that Knud Rasmussen collected between Greenland and the Bering Strait.