Ruth's books
I (Athena) is a novel published by NeWest Press - available in stores starting April 1, 2023.
E nâtamukw miyeyimuwin: Residential School Recovery Stories of the James Bay Cree, Volume One includes nineteen stories that tell how the different generations of the James Bay Cree have been impacted by and are recovering from Indian Residential School genocide and its aftermath. Each story is illustrated by a James Bay Cree youth. The book is commissioned and published by Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay and distributed by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. We expect to release two or three more volumes.
- Winner, 2024 Independent Press Award (Cultural and Social Issues)
- Finalist, 2023 Book of the Year, Independent Author Network (History)
- Finalist, 2023 Book of the Year, Independent Author Network (Multicultural nonfiction)
- Finalist, 2023 Book of the Year, Independent Author Network (Biography)
- Windspeaker August 24 2023
- CBC Radio Active with Jessica Ng, Min Dhariwal, June 14 2023
- UAlberta Folio, June 07, 2023
- CBC Radio 2023 - Eyou Dipajimoon (Cree) with Marjorie Kitty
- CBC Radio - All In A Day 2023
- CBC Interview 2023
- La Sentinelle 2023
- The Nation, April 21 2023
- L'Aquilon, April 13, 2023
- The Nation, April 11, 2023
- CBC interview with storytellers Solomon Awashish and George Shecapio
The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee: Stories of Diabetes and the James Bay Cree is written in collaboration with James Bay Cree storytellers. Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay (the public health arm of the Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee) commissioned and published it (distrib WLUP), and they hold copyright.
Sweet Bloods contains twenty-six stories that offer a rich and timely accounting of contemporary life in Eeyou Istchee, the territory of the James Bay Cree of Northern Quebec. The stories are connected by diabetes, but they are not records of illness as much as they are deeply personal accounts of life in the North: the fine, swaying balances of living both in town and on the land, of family and work and studies, of healing from relocations and residential school histories while building communities of safety and challenge and joy, of hunting and hockey, and much more. It's essential reading for anyone who knows anyone with diabetes, and for anyone interested in a contemporary rendering of one of Canada’s vibrant, thriving, and highly adaptive Indigenous communities.
Sweet Bloods is designed and printed with accessibility in mind.
The Second Edition (with epilogue) and audiobook (narrated by Matthew Iserhoff) are now available.
Sweet Bloods
Winner, International Book Awards 2018.
Shortlist, Next Generation Indie Awards 2018.
Shortlist, National Indie Excellence: Memoir 2018.
Shortlist, National Indie Excellence: Health 2018.
Shortlist, Editor's Choice Foreword INDIES 2017.