b'MEDIUMS: INDIGENOUS VOICES IN MEDIAESSENTIAL READS AND PODCASTS BY INDIGENOUS AUTHORS AND STORYTELLERSBOOKNoopiming:The Cure for White Ladies Writer: Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonAward-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller, writer, musician and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson released Noopiming, a world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism, in September 2020. Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for in the bush, and the title is a response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodies 1852 memoir Roughing It in the Bush. Combining narrative with poetic fragments, Noopiming braids together humour, piercing detail and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love and joy.Simpson, who hails from Alderville First Nation, is the author of five previous books, including This Accident of Being Lost, which won the MacEwan Book of the Year and the Peterborough Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Indigenous Author, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award, was longlisted for CBC Canada Reads and was named one of the best books of the year by the Globe and Mail, National Post and Quill & Quire.BOOKIndians on Vacation Writer: Thomas King Award-winning novelist, short-story writer, scriptwriter and photographer Thomas King released Indians on Vacation in July 2020. Indians on Vacation is about a couple named Bird and Mimi as they travel through Europe after discovering postcards from Mimis long-lost Uncle Leroy, who sent them while on his own European adventure almost 100 years ago.Indians on Vacation was shortlisted for the 2020 Writers TrustFiction Prize and longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. BOOKDog Flowers: A MemoirWriter: Danielle GellerDanielle Geller, archivist and a writer from Navajo Nation, released Dog Flowers: A Memoir in January 2021. Weaving between loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Geller shares her journey as she returns home to the Navajo reservation to confront her familys troubled history and retrace her mothers life while paying homage to our pasts, traditions and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.36l I ssue2 2020/21C hIefs ofo ntarIoA dvocAte magazIne'