Indigenous Resources
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Peggy Janicki, Carrielynn Victor The Secret Pocket
Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort for young Mary. Speaking Dakelh was forbidden and the nuns and priest were always watching, ready to punish. Mary and the other girls had a genius idea: drawing on the knowledge from their mothers, aunts and grandmothers who were all master sewers, the girls would sew hidden pockets in their clothes to hide food. Based on the author's mother's experience at residential school, The Secret Pocket is a story of survival and resilience in the face of genocide and cruelty. But it's also a celebration of quiet resistance to the injustice of residential schools and how the sewing skills passed down through generations of Indigenous women gave these girls a future, stitch by stitch.
$21.95
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Theresa "Corky" Larsen-Jonasson, Jessika Von Innerebner The Sharing Circle
When two red foxes have an argument which breaks apart their community, a gentle buffalo decides to take a braid of sweetgrass to a local elder and asks her to help with a sharing circle for all the animals.
$16.99
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James Corbiere The Truth in Truth and Reconciliation
The TRUTH is HERE! Are you up for the Challenge? This Educational Board Game includes an Indigenous educator-created Guide Book that supports teachers and all others in learning even more about the Truth of what took place on Turtle Island, and a graphic novel written and illustrated by board game creator James Corbiere called Tales of The Firekeeper. These powerful resources are designed to educate but are not just for students and teachers we all have a role to play in Truth and Reconciliation. The Truth in Truth and Reconciliation Educational Board Game is an essential educational resource that gives participants an immersive learning experience of the process of colonization in a board game format. Through Truth and Consequence Cards, participants can explore iconic Canadian historical events in this immersive, thought-provoking, TRUTH-telling educational board game. As an Indigenous participant, your goal is to circle Turtle Island to collect four Eagle Feathers before being stripped of your Land, Language, Culture, and Identity by the policies and actions of the Church and the Crown. Collect all Four Feathers and you are a SURVIVOR! Created to answer the TRC Report Calls to Action, this powerful resource will become an essential tool for every educator, ally or anyone who seeks the Truth, and a great way to start conversations about the work of Reconciliation.
$99.99
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James Waldram The Way of the Pipe: Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisons
The Way of the Pipe explores how Aboriginal spirituality is finding its way into prisons and the role it is playing with Aboriginal inmates seeking to regain and to promote their heritages and identities.The book starts from the premise that this spirituality is not simply "religion" but is a form of therapy, know to medical anthropologists as "symbolic healing." Working from the results of hundreds of interviews with inmates in a number of prisons, Waldram traces the history of Aboriginal spirituality in and out of prison populations. Ironically, it is in prison that many come face to face with spiritual traditions such as the sweat lodge for the first time. The book looks critically at incarceration practices which have not always made it easy for inmates to explore their spiritual heritage.
$40.95
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Bev Sellars They Called Me Number One
Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only-not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family-from substance abuse to suicide attempts-and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. Number One comes at a time of recognition-by governments and society at large-that only through knowing the truth about these past injustices can we begin to redress them.
$19.95
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Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back
The patterns on Turtle's shell stand for the 13 cycles of the moon, each with its own name and a story that relates to the changing seasons. Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London collaborate to reveal the beauty of the natural world around us, while Thomas Locker's illustrations honor both Native American legends and the varied American landscape. Full color.
$9.50
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Juliana Armstrong This is What I've Been Told
It's been said when teachings are passed down from one generation to the next, good things can happen. Language is learned, knowledge is shared and culture is practiced. In this story of language preservation, Author/Illustrator and Anishnaabemowin language teacher Juliana Armstrong illuminates a number of Anishnaabemowin words along with their cultural connections, passed down from her Ojibway ancestors. Knowing our culture means knowing who we are. When we know who we are, we can walk in a good way.
$16.99
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Aviaq Johnston, Toma Feizo Gas Those Who Run in the Sky
This teen novel is a coming-of-age story that follows a young shaman named Pitu as he learns to use his powers and ultimately finds himself lost in the world of the spirits. After a strange and violent blizzard leaves Pitu stranded on the sea ice, without his dog team or any weapons to defend himself, he soon realizes that he is no longer in the word that he once knew. After stumbling upon a fellow shaman who has been trapped in the spirit world for many years, Pitu must master all of his shamanic powers to make his way back to the world of the living, to his family, and to the girl that he loves.
$13.95
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Dawn Oman Three Dories 1000 Piece Puzzle
Three Dories 1000 piece puzzle designed by Dawn Oman, Chipewyan/Métis. 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 28 x 20 in (70 x 50 cm) when completed. Age 12+
$20.00
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Betty Albert Three Sisters 1000 Piece Puzzle
Three Sisters 1000 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 28 x 20 in (70 x 50 cm) when completed. Age 12+
$20.00
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Betty Albert Three Sisters Journal
Blank journal made and printed in Canada. Betty Albert is a Cree artist. The artist has been paid a royalty for the sale of this product.
$9.95
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Karen Erickson Through Children's Eyes 72 Piece Puzzle
Through Children's Eyes 72 Piece Puzzle designed by Karen Erickson, Métis/Cree. The artist is paid a royalty on each sale. Our 72 piece Puzzles on the Go are packaged in a tin box and feature authentic Indigenous art with the artist's biography on the back of the tin. The finished size is 8.3 x 11.2" (21x28.5 cm). Ages 3+
$10.00
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Angela Kimble Tie-dye Owl 500 Piece Puzzle
Tie-dye Owl 500 piece round puzzle designed by Angela Kimble, Coast Salish/Nuu-Cha-Nulth. 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 (58.5 x 58.5 cm) when completed. Age 9+
$21.00
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Monique Gray Smith Tilly and the Crazy Eights
An unexpected journey can be powerful medicine. When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket list road trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly has said goodbye to her family and is behind the wheel ready to embark on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict, just as it will for each and every one of the seniors on the trip.
$21.95
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Monique Gray Smith Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience
Tilly has always known she's part Lakota on her dad's side. She's grown up with the traditional teachings of her grandma, relishing the life lessons of her beloved mentor. But it isn't until an angry man shouts something on the street that Tilly realizes her mom is Aboriginal too--a Cree woman taken from her own parents as a baby. Tilly feels her mother's pain deeply. She's always had trouble fitting in at school, and when her grandma dies unexpectedly, her anchor is gone. Then Abby, a grade-seven classmate, invites her home for lunch and offers her "something special" to drink. Nothing has prepared Tilly for the tingling in her legs, the buzz in her head and the awesome feeling that she can do anything. From then on, partying seems to offer an escape from her insecurities. But after one dangerously drunken evening, Tilly knows she has to change. Summoning her courage, she begins the long journey to finding pride in herself and her heritage. Just when she needs it most, a mysterious stranger offers some wise counsel: "Never question who you are or who your people are. It's in your eyes. I know it's in your heart." Loosely based on author Monique Gray Smith's own life, this revealing, important work of creative nonfiction tells the story of a young indigenous woman coming of age in the 1980s. In a spirit of hope, this unique story captures the irrepressible resilience of Tilly and of indigenous peoples everywhere.
$19.95
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William Monague Tranquility Journal
Blank journal made and printed in Canada. William Monague is an Ojibway artist. The artist has been paid a royalty for the sale of this product.
$10.00
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Betty Albert Transformation 1000 Piece Puzzle
Transformation 1000 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 20 x 28 in (50 x 70 cm) when completed. Age 12+
$21.00
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Norma Tracey Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child: Healing through Intervention
This book approaches trauma from transgenerational perspectives that go back to the early colonization of Australia, and describes what that event has historically meant for the country's Aboriginal population and its culture. This history has continued to propagate traumatically across subsequent generations. This book reveals the work underway at Gunawirra, a group in Sydney founded to work against transgenerational trauma in families with children aged 0-5.
$152.95
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Hilary N. Weaver Trauma & Resilience In in the Lives of Contemporary Native Americans: Reclaiming our Balance, Restoring our Wellbeing
Indigenous Peoples around the world and our allies often reflect on the many challenges that continue to confront us, the reasons behind health, economic, and social disparities, and the best ways forward to a healthy future. This book draws on theoretical, conceptual, and evidence-based scholarship as well as interviews with scholars immersed in Indigenous wellbeing, to examine contemporary issues for Native Americans. It includes reflections on resilience as well as disparities. In recent decades, there has been increasing attention on how trauma, both historical and contemporary, shapes the lives of Native Americans. Indigenous scholars urge recognition of historical trauma as a framework for understanding contemporary health and social disparities.
$63.95
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Tricky the Raven Puppet
Tricky the Raven is a high quality hand puppet approximately 10" - 14". Made of all new materials. Art by Doug LaFortune, Coast Salish.
$28.00
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Trudy Spiller, Jessika Von Innerebner Trudy's Healing Stone
Everyone gets sad, angry, frustrated and disappointed. Difficult emotions are a natural part of life. In this book, Trudy's Healing Stone, Trudy Spiller shares a special teaching about a practice that anyone can use to help them process their feelings with the help of Mother Earth. Recommended for ages 4-6.
$11.95
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Trudy Spiller Trudy's Rock Story
A timeless story that will always help our students and children connect with Nature. When a young girl from the Gitxsan Nation argues with her brother, she remembers the teachings of her grandmother and goes in search of a stone to share her feelings with. This engaging First Nation's story teaches children that it is okay to have feelings and shows them how to process and release negative thoughts.
$16.99
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Jody Wilson-Raybould True Reconciliation: How To Be A Force For Change
There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? It is clear that people from all over the country want to take concrete and tangible action that will make real change. We just need to know how to get started. This book provides that next step. For Wilson-Raybould, what individuals and organizations need to do to advance true reconciliation is self-evident, accessible, and achievable. True Reconciliation is broken down into three core practices—Learn, Understand, and Act—that can be applied by individuals, communities, organizations, and governments.The practices are based not only on the historical and contemporary experience of Indigenous peoples in their relentless efforts to effect transformative change and decolonization, but also on the deep understanding and expertise about what has been effective in the past, what we are doing right, and wrong, today, and what our collective future requires. Fundamental to a shared way of thinking is an understanding of the Indigenous experience throughout the story of Canada. In a manner that reflects how work is done in the Big House, True Reconciliation features an “oral” history of these lands, told through Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices from our past and present.The ultimate and attainable goal of True Reconciliation is to break down the silos we’ve created that prevent meaningful change, to be empowered to increasingly act as “inbetweeners,” and to take full advantage of this moment in our history to positively transform the country into a place we can all be proud of.
$32.95
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Truth and Reconciliation Through Education
Stories of Decolonizing Practices Educators have a special role in furthering truth and reconciliation in education, but many struggle to understand exactly what that means and how to accomplish it. There is no step-by-step guide to getting it right. Educators can only meaningfully accomplish truth and reconciliation in education by seeking out truth and reconciliation through education: an ongoing process of amplifying Indigenous voices and experiences, allowing oneself to be changed by them, and being guided by this learning both personally and professionally. This is a resource written by educators for educators wishing to embark on their own journeys of truth and reconciliation. Join the reconciliatory education community in courageously teaching, learning, and acting, just as the educators in this collected volume do.
$41.95
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