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Books
 Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel’s Grandmother
McClelland & Stewart, hard cover edition, October 2008.
Available in bookstores throughout Canada.
Marie-Anne Lagimodière was the most extraordinary Canadian woman of the 19th Century. Grandmother to the great Canadian Reformer Louis Riel, her courage and passion would profoundly influence him.
Beautiful and spirited, Marie-Anne rejected suitor after suitor until she was 26 – a rebellion that was unheard of in 1800s Quebec habitant society. Then, shortly after her marriage to the handsome coureur de bois Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière, Marie-Anne insisted on accompanying him back to the uncharted wilderness of western Canada. The year was 1807, and no white woman had tackled the fierce wilderness of Canada’s fur-trading country. Marie-Anne travelled almost 3,000 kilometres by canoe brigade, facing tumultuous rapids, portages, and deadly storms on the way to the Red River Valley. She packed a flatiron for the voyage, a disturbing sign that she was woefully unaware of what lay ahead.
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 Bitter Embrace: White Society’s Assault on the Woodland Cree
McClelland & Stewart, hardcover edition 2005, trade paper edition, 2006
Available in bookstores throughout Canada
Winner of the City of Regina Book Award, 2005
A Globe 100 Selection
2005 Dafoe Prize Nominee
For over 200 years, Pelican Narrows Indian Reserve in northern Saskatchewan has endured a torturous relationship with the encroaching European culture, from the Hudson’s Bay Company factors and Oblate missionaries of earlier times to the bureaucrats and police of today. Through the use of archival material, oral storytelling and documenting the personal stories of contemporary Pelican Narrows Cree, Maggie Siggins gives us the human faces behind the newspaper headlines screaming about native issues.
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 In Her Own Time: A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women
HarperCollins Publishers, hardcover edition, 2000, trade paper 2001
Winner of the City of Regina Book Award, 2000
The class of ’61, R. H. King Collegiate. These were the women who were born during the war, had come of age in the 1960s and were forced by the women’s movement of the 1970s to reassess their roles in life. They had stood at the forefront of one of the greatest revolutions in history – the emancipation of half the human race.
Maggie Siggins set out to write their stories. But the themes that emerged provided a gateway to explore women’s lives throughout history. In Her Own Time became nothing less than a cultural history of women in the Western World from antiquity to present. In an engaging and intimate narrative, Maggie investigates the role of women over two millennium.
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 Riel A Life of Revolution
HarperCollins Publishers, hard cover edition 1994, trade paper 1995, 2003
Riel Une vie de revolution
Éditions Québec/Amérique trade paper 1997
Winner of the City of Regina Book Award
On the national best seller list for 49 weeks.
With each generation his persona has taken on different colours and nuances – an unrepentant traitor to Canada, a messianic prophet who led an unsuspecting people astray, a pathetic tyrant unfairly executed because he was insane. In this intimate biography Maggie Siggins uncovers the real Louis Riel – a complex man full of contradiction and angst, a charismatic visionary and poet, a humanitarian who gave up prestige and wealth to fight for the Metis people.
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Revenge of the Land A Century of Greed, Tragedy, and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
 McClelland & Stewart, hard cover edition, 1991, trade paper, 1992, 2006,
Winner of the 1992 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonficton
Made into a CBC four-hour dramatic miniseries
In August 1987, a grisly murder took place on a farm near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. A teenaged boy shot and killed his grandparents and then spent the month partying with his brother and their friends. Only when the neighbours noticed that the crops were not being harvested did they become suspicious.
Maggie Siggins set out to investigate the case, but, before long, she began tof eel that the central character was the farm itself – especially when she uncovered the hardship an disaster suffered by those who tried to tame this section of land. She decided to tell the story of all the previous owners of the same section of prairie. The result is the uncovering of how the West was really won and by whom.
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 A CANADIAN TRAGEDY JoAnn and Colin Thatcher: A Story of Love and Hate
MacMillan of Canada, hard cover edition, 1985
Seal Books, paperback edition, 1986
McClelland & Stewart, trade paper, 2001
Winner of the Crime Writers of Canada, Arthur Ellis Award, 1985
Made into a 4-hour dramatic miniseries “Love and Hate” broadcast by CBC, CBS, BBC and over 50 countries around the world.
Colin Thatcher was a golden boy, the son of a former premier of Saskatchewan. Eventually Colin launched his own political career. But, as he rose to prominence and to a seat on the Saskatchewan cabinet, all was not well at home. His marriage to JoAnn, the mother of his three children, unravelled amid rumours of infidelity and of domestic violence. JoAnn divorced Colin, married again, and moved to Regina. In 1983 she was attacked with a sickle and then shot to death in the garage of her home. In 1985 Thatcher was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life.
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