Indigenous Resources
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Nancy van Laan Rainbow Crow
This story of how the Rainbow Crow lost his sweet voice and brilliant colors by bringing the gift of fire to the other woodland animals is "a Native American legend that will be a fine read-aloud because of the smooth text and songs with repetitive chants.
$11.99
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Mark Preston Raven Moon 500 Piece Puzzle
Raven Moon 500 piece round puzzle designed by Mark Preston, Tlingit. The artist is paid a royalty on each sale, and their biography can be found on the back of the box. Designed to engage and inspire while showcasing vibrant Indigenous artwork, this puzzle measures approximately 23 x 23 in (60 x 60cm) when completed. Age 9+
$21.00
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Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak
With bright and bold illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, this sturdy board book introduces iconic sounds of the West Coast and supports the language development of babies and toddlers. From the the crackle of a beach campfire to the swoosh of canoe paddles, the rustle and creak of cedars in the wind, the roar of sea lions and the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean, the rhythmic text, vibrant illustrations and glossy tactile finish of Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak will delight the very youngest readers.
$12.95
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Robert James Challenger Raven's Call: And More Northwest Coast Stories
Robert James Challenger uses the form of parables to teach children important values. The observations of Grandmother and other family members interpret the actions of nature's creatures in a variety of circumstances. His simple, direct stories reflect a philosophy widely embraced—respect for our environment and understanding of all creeds, races and generations. Each of the 18 stories is illustrated by a graceful motif that reflects the strong influence of First Nations art on Challenger's work.
$9.95
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Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest
Raven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. But can he find out where Sky Chief keeps it? And if he does, will he be able to escape without being discovered? His dream seems impossible, but if anyone can find a way to bring light to the world, wise and clever Raven can!
$12.50
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Re-Storying Education
Decolonizing Your Practice Using a Critical Lens Re-Storying Education is a process of dismantling old narratives taught in education and rebuilding new narratives that include all the voices that have created this place known as Canada today. This vital and timely book outlines how colonialism has shaped both the country and the public school system. Re-Storying Education uses an Indigenous lens, offering ways to put Indigenous education, history, and pedagogy into practice. Drawing from her own experiences as an Indigenous student, educator, and administrator, in public and band-operated school systems, Indigenous academic Carolyn Roberts offers a deep understanding of how to support educators with Indigenous education and to create a nurturing and inclusive environment for all students. Re-Storying Education contains valuable lesson and assessment ideas, fostering the development of a critical lens in education. Roberts offers questions for self-reflection, suggestions for professional action, recommended resources for further learning, personal stories and anecdotes, insights from her own decolonizing teaching practices, and playlists that reflect the spirit of the work and that uplift Indigenous voices.
$34.95
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Jody Wilson-Raybould, Roshan Danesh Reconciling History: A Story of Canada
The totem pole forms the foundation for this unique and important oral history of Canada. Its goal is both toweringly ambitious and beautifully direct: To tell the story of this country in a way that prompts readers to look from different angles, to see its dimensions, its curves, and its cuts. To see that history has an arc, just as the totem pole rises, but to realize that it is also in the details along the way that important meanings are to be found. To recognize that the story of the past is always there to be retold and recast, and must be conveyed to generations to come. That in the act of re-telling, meaning is found, and strength is built. Reconciling History shares voices that have seldom been heard, and in this ground-breaking book they are telling and re-telling history from their perspectives. Born out of the oral history in True Reconciliation, and complemented throughout with stunning photography and art, Reconciling History takes this approach to telling our collective story to an entirely different level.
$39.95
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Edited by Michael Hankard PhD and Joyce Dillen Red Dresses on Bare Trees: Stories and Reflections on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The book's essays and reflections hope to incorporate Indigenous knowledge principles about relationships and love in the hope that we can begin to emulate and live our lives in balance. In this circle, we begin in the eastern direction with respect; moving into time in the south where we must physically, mentally and spiritually sit and spend time with someone; then to empathy or feeling in the west where our connection to a person is strong enough so we hurt when they are hurting; then finally, into the gift of movement, where caring behaviour in the northern direction drives us to actually do something about it.
$33.00
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Shawna Boulette Grapentine Reflect & Grow With Love 1000 Piece Puzzle
Reflect & Grow with Love 1000 piece puzzle designed by Shawna Boulette Grapentine, Cree-Ojibway. The artist is paid a royalty on each sale, and their biography can be found on the back of the box.Designed to engage and inspire while showcasing vibrant Indigenous artwork, this puzzle measures approximately 20 x 28 in (50 x 70 cm) when completed. Age 12+
$21.00
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Reservation Blues
Sherman Alexie has been hailed as one of the best writers we have (The Nation). Reservation Blues is his irresistibly stunning debut novel (San Francisco Chronicle). One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire storyteller, misfit, and musicial magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. This is a fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power, tragedy, and redemption among contemporary Native Americans.
$27.95
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Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture
Restoring the Balance combines elements of First Nations traditions and mainstream feminism to produce an outstanding collection of historical and critical accounts of the impacts Aboriginal women have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, art, and cultural retention. Fifteen scholars, activists and community leaders illuminate long-standing gender imbalances within the oral and written historical records that have limited the self-actualization of First Nations women, and offer insight into the tangible work that Aboriginal women perform in community and cultural development.
$27.95
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Returning To The Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice
In this remarkable book, Rupert Ross invites us to accompany him as he moves past the pain and suffering that grip so many communities and into the exceptional promise of individual, family and community healing that traditional teachings are now restoring to Aboriginal Canada. The book is about Aboriginal justice and much more, speaking not only to our minds, but also to our hearts and spirits. Above all, it stands as a search for the values and visions that give life its significance and that any justice system, Aboriginal or otherwise, must serve and respect. He shares his confusion, frustrations and delights as Elders and other teachers guide him, in their unique and often puzzling ways, into ancient visions of Creation and our role with it.
$24.00
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Richard Wagamese Richard Wagamese Selected
What Comes From Spirit Richard Wagamese, one of Canada's most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same. Following the success of Embers, which has sold almost seventy thousand copies since its release in 2016, this new collection of Wagamese's non-fiction works, with an introduction by editor Drew Hayden Taylor, brings together more of the prolific authors short writings, many for the first time in print, and celebrates his ability to inspire. Drawing from Wagamese's essays and columns, along with preserved social media and blog posts, this beautifully designed volume is a tribute to Wagamese's literary legacy.
$26.95
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Ripple Effect of Resiliency
: Strategies for Fostering Resiliency with Indigenous Children A resource and workbook for those working with Indigenous children and their families. It includes chapters on resiliency, trauma, indigenous history, and personal and workplace wellness. It also contains four chapters include information, stories and examples for fostering resiliency. They have been developed as four blankets and include: Sense of self, sense of family, sense of community, and sense of culture, language, and land. Also included is an extensive resource chapter.
$39.95
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Jackie Traverse Sacred Feminine: An Indigenous Art Colouring Book
Sacred Feminine is a colouring book by Anishinaabe artist Jackie Traverse. The beautiful and intricate works of art within depict images of strength, resilience and empowerment. With each image, the artist explains the symbolism and meaning represented. The first of its kind, Sacred Feminine is intended to heal and educate readers and colourers of all ages.
$24.00
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Sacred Path Cards: Discovery of Self Through Native Teachings
Beautifully illustrated cards and a comprehensive guidebook based on Native American sacred teachings capture the strength and beauty of tribal traditions and offer a tool for self-discovery, awareness, and positive change. The 44 beautifully illustrated cards, each endowed with a particular meaning and message, may be drawn individually for a daily lesson or laid out in a series of spreads that open up different paths to inner knowledge. Used with the accompanying text, which explains the various forms of methods and interpretation and divination, the cards are a powerful tool for enhanced self-awareness and positive change. Developed by Native American medicine teacher Jamie Sams.
$47.50
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Betty Albert Sacred Space 500 Piece Puzzle
Sacred Space 500 piece puzzle designed by Betty Albert, Cree. The artist is paid a royalty on each sale, and their biography can be found on the back of the box.Designed to engage and inspire while showcasing vibrant Indigenous artwork, this puzzle measures approximately 25 x 20 in (62 x 50 cm) when completed. Age 6+
$19.00
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Sacred Tree
Reflections on Native American Spirituality This beautiful book teaches us how we need to deepen and develop and nurture our inner life. The authors explain that human beings grow in the qualities of the four directions: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually as a result of inner reflection and change. Well written and thoughtful, this book teaches us how important it is to respect and honor our inner growth.
$18.95
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Salmon for Simon
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award Simon discovers that catching a salmon is more difficult than it looks. A simple, touching and multi-award-winning story with evocative watercolor illustrations. Ages 4 to 7
$7.95
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David A. Robertson Scars (7 Generations, #2)
7 Generations is an epic, 4-book graphic novel series that spans three centuries and seven generations. Scars introduce White Cloud, a young Plains Cree boy, in the year 1870, when the last great smallpox epidemic swept through the prairies. After witnessing, one by one, the death of his entire family from the illness, he summons the strength to journey on to find a new home and deliver himself from the terrible disease. Scars follows White Cloud and the people he encounters, as he struggles to survive against impossible odds. By learning about the bravery and perseverance of his ancestor White Cloud, Edwin summons his own courage and travels to confront the main source of his despair: the father he barely knows.
$13.95
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Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles
Nicole Redvers, a naturopathic physician and member of the Deninu K'ue First Nation, analyzes modern Western medical practices using evidence-informed Indigenous healing practices and traditions from around the world. Redvers, who has traveled and worked with Indigenous groups around the world, shares the knowledge and teachings of health and wellness that have been passed down through the generations, tying this knowledge with current scientific advances.
$27.95
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Andrea Spalding, Alfred Scow Secret of the Dance
In 1935, a nine-year-old boy's family held a forbidden Potlatch in faraway Kingcome Inlet. Watl'kina slipped from his bed to bear witness. In the Big House masked figures danced by firelight to the beat of the drum. And there, he saw a figure he knew. Aboriginal elder Alfred Scow and award-winning author Andrea Spalding collaborate to tell the story, to tell the secret of the dance.
$12.95
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Gord Downie & Jeff Lemire Secret Path
This book is a ten song digital download album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by illustrator Jeff Lemire that tells the story of Chanie Charlie Wenjack, a twelve-year-old boy who died in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School fifty years ago.
$26.99
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Michael Hart Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin: An Aboriginal Approach to Healing
An Aboriginal Approach to Helping Historically, social work and psychology professions have pressured and coerced Aboriginal peoples to follow the euro-centric ways of society. The needs of Aboriginal peoples have not been successfully addressed by helping profession due to a limited attempt to incorporate Aboriginal perspectives and practices of helping. Michael Hart briefly discusses colonization from an Aboriginal perspective, ontological imperialism, social works role in colonial oppression, and the dynamic of resistance. Seeking Mino-Pimatisiwin encourages Aboriginal concepts, values and perspectives to be effectively incorporated by helpers trained in counselling, supporting, and teaching disciplines.
$27.00
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