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Alt text: "Book cover of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby, featuring a black-and-white portrait of the author wearing glasses and a scarf. The Canada Reads 2025 winner badge is placed on the cover.

A Two-Spirit Journey wins CBC’s Canada Reads 2025

March 21, 2025 —
A University of Manitoba Press book has won this year’s Canada Reads Competition. A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer, was championed in the competition by Shayla Stonechild, the award-winning TV host of APTN's Red Earth Uncovered and the founder of the Matriarch Movement, "a non-profit organization dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices through story, meditation, movement, and medicine."

CBC Canada Reads, University of Manitoba Press

Image is the book covers for A Two-Spirit Journey and When the Pine Needles Fall.

UM on the Canada Reads 2025 longlist

January 22, 2025 —
Two books with strong ties to the University of Manitoba have been selected for this year’s CBC's Canada Reads competition: A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer published by University of Manitoba Press and When the Pine Needles Fall by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with UM Assistant Professor in History and Indigenous Studies Sean Carleton.

CBC Canada Reads, University of Manitoba Press