This month is National Indigenous History Month, and Saturday, June 21 marks National Indigenous Peoples Day—a day to celebrate the traditions, cultures, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. 

This year, we are proud to spotlight a selection of books in our Indigenous Art + Culture category that we’ve been honoured to publish, in collaboration with Indigenous authors, artists, scholars, curators, and Elders.

As a publisher, we believe storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to build understanding, preserve knowledge, and celebrate culture.

Join us in celebrating these stories—spanning art, fashion, photography, and history—by checking out a book from our Indigenous Art + Culture section. Here are our top picks this year:

Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait

Emily Laurent Henderson
In collaboration with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection

A testament to the impacts of colonization and a record of adaptation and resourcefulness, Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait presents never-before-published drawings from artists in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) made between 1957 and 1990. These works lie outside of the artistic norms typically associated with Inuit art of the era, revealing a community in a time of transformation. This groundbreaking publication animates the legacy of Kinngait Studio and its role in generating, nurturing, and promoting artists who continue to challenge expectations and provoke fresh understandings.

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Curve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast

Curated by Dana Claxton and Curtis Collins
In collaboration with the Audain Art Museum

Curve! Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast is an eighty-year overview of wood and argillite carving by Indigenous women artists on the Northwest Coast.

Though women of the Northwest Coast have long carved poles, canoes, panels, and masks, many of these artists have not become as well known outside their communities as their male counterparts. This book gathers a range of sculptural formats by Indigenous women in order to expand the discourse of carving in the region.

“An ability to carve is the ability to bring back songs, it is the ability to chant, it is the ability to feast and to record history and recognize important roles in our communities. And to arm women with those abilities, that autonomy—that choice is transformational.”
—Marika Echachis Swan

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Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread

Dorothy Grant
In collaboration with the Haida Gwaii Museum

Part look-book, part memoir, and part history, this beautifully illustrated monument to a singular designer who helped inspire the growing Indigenous fashion movement is also a powerful demonstration of the enduring resonance and possibilities of Haida art.

Dorothy Grant: An Endless Thread is the first monograph to celebrate her trailblazing career.

“An Endless Thread serves as a long-overdue celebration of Grant, who has long advocated for the intersection of cultural pride, style, and a maintaining of tradition.” —Vogue

Read more in Vogue

People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie

Paul Seesequasis
In collaboration with The McMichael Canadian Art Collection

John Macfie’s photos, curated in People of the Watershed by nipisihkopawiyiniw (Willow Cree) writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis, document ways of life firmly rooted in the pleasures of the land. As Macfie travelled the vast expanse of the Hudson Bay watershed, from Sandy Lake to Fort Severn to Moose Lake and as far south as Mattagami, in the 1950s and 1960s, he photographed the daily lives of Anishinaabe, Cree, and Anisininew communities, bearing witness to their adaptability and resilience during a time of tremendous change.

“John Macfie’s vivid and stirring photographs show a way of life on full display—the world my ancestors inhabited and that my mom fondly described to me. It is a world that, shortly after these pictures were taken, ended. So distant and yet achingly familiar, these pictures feel like a visit home.”

—Jesse Wente, Anishinaabe broadcaster, arts leader, and author of Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

7IDANsuu James Hart: A Monumental Practice (Forthcoming)

By 7IDANsuu James Hart and Curtis Collins
In collaboration with the Audain Art Museum

Ask Haida artist and hereditary chief 7IDANsuu James Hart how long it took him to master the art of carving, and he’ll tell you: “Around ten thousand years.”

Hart has achieved national prominence and international acclaim for his towering poles, stately cedar sculptures, and massive bronzes—monumental works that extend the long continuum of Haida visual traditions into powerful new forms. This, the first publication devoted to Hart, is both a survey of his major career achievements and a document of an impossible-to-assemble exhibition.

Available for pre-order, coming October 2025.

People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point  (Forthcoming)

We are thrilled to be reprinting People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point, which celebrates the public art of one of Canada’s most accomplished artists and designers. Point’s unique artworks have been credited with almost single-handedly reviving the traditional Coast Salish art style, and this book beautifully displays the breadth and depth of her public art, from cast bronze faces in Whistler to massive carved cedar portals in Stanley Park to moulded polymer murals in Seattle.

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