Indigenous Resources
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Jim Oskineegish Bountiful Harvest 72 Piece Puzzle
Bountiful Harvest 72 piece puzzle designed by Jim Oskineegish, Ojibway. The artist is paid a royalty on every 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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Drew Hayden Taylor Boy in the Treehouse / The Girl Who Loved Her Horses
In "The Boy in the Treehouse," Simon, the son of an Ojibway mother and a British father, climbs into his half-finished tree house on the vision-quest his books say is necessary for him to reclaim his mother's culture. "It's a Native thing," he informs his incredulous father. "Only boys do it. It's part of becoming a man." Of course, with the threats of the police, the temptation of the barbeque next door, and the distractions of a persistent neighbourhood girl, Simon probably wouldn't recognize a vision if he fell over it. "Girl Who Loved Her Horses" is the Native name for the strange and quiet Danielle from the non-status community across the tracks, imbued with the mysterious power to draw the horse "every human being on the planet wanted but could never have." These two plays are about the process of children becoming adults.
$18.95
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Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take 'us on a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise' (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.
$30.95
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Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things-from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen-provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us.
$27.50
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Caroll Simpson Brothers of the Wolf
This is the tale two wolf cubs found and raised in a village on the Pacific coast as human children. The wolf cub brothers, Tkope and Klale, are very different from one another. One feels most at home in the forest, while the other is more comfortable in the sea. When they undergo a supernatural transformation, one turns into a Sea Wolf and one turns into a Timber Wolf. Although they are separated, their howling voices unite at regular intervals, waking up Moon and saving the world from uncertain darkness.
$12.95
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Fred Sasakamoose Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player
Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in the world. He has been heralded as the first Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL. Sasakamoose's story was far from over once his NHL days concluded. He continued to play for another decade in leagues around Western Canada. He became a band councillor, served as Chief, and established athletic programs for kids. He paved a way for youth to find solace and meaning in sports for generations to come. Threaded through these impressive accomplishments were periods of heartbreak and unimaginable tragedy - as well as moments of passion and great joy.
$21.00
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Elaine Alec Calling My Spirit Back
Indigenous Peoples have always carried the knowledge necessary to heal. When our people heal, our families heal, our communities heal and our land will heal. You cannot have one without the other. These stories are teachings, prophecy and protocols shared throughout the years by elders, language speakers, medicine people and helpers. They have been the foundation to individual healing and learning self-love. They teach us how to make good decisions for ourselves and for all other aspects in our lives. When our people were young, they were sent on the land to gather as much experience and knowledge as they could, and when they returned, they would contribute what they learned. I am Syilx and Secwepemc and although many of my teachings come from this place, they also intertwine with indigenous knowledge shared through ceremony from many other nations.
$19.50
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Jeannine Carriere & Catherine Richardson Calling Our Families Home: Metis Peoples Experience with Child Welfare
This book is dedicated to informing social workers and other helping professionals in how Métis people are affected in the child welfare system. Métis peoples today negotiate a form of displacement that has occurred over generations although most Canadians are unaware of this history. The forced removal of children through child apprehension and adoption has been an integral part of displacement, perpetuating further family disruption and dislocation. There is scant literature on Métis experiences in child welfare systems, no national data is collected on the number of Métis children involved with child welfare systems, and there has never been a national study of these realities.
$34.00
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Jordan Wheeler, Christopher Auchter Chuck in the City
Chuck loves a good adventure. He proved that in Just a Walk. Now Chuck and his mom are heading to the city to visit his grandmother in her new condo. He knows he shouldn't wander off, but the lure of the lively city streets proves too much for a curious little boy to resist. Ages 6-8 New Edition
$10.95
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Theresa "Corky" Larsen-Jonasson, Jessika Von Innerebner Circle of Caring and Sharing
When two foxes, who are best friends, have a fight it upsets the whole community of animals. Kokom the Owl knows just what to do and brings together all the animals and holds a Sharing Circle
$11.95
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Sheila Cote-Meek Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education
In this book, the author discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and experiencing colonial violence on a daily basis. Basing her analysis on interviews with Aboriginal students, teachers and Elders, Cote-Meek deftly illustrates how colonization and its violence are not a distant experience, but one that is being negotiated every day in universities and colleges across Canada.
$29.00
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Native Northwest Colouring Journal II: Northwest Coast First Nations and Native Art
Enjoy reflecting on and learning about the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, and our connectedness to the saced between the earth and sky! Featuring text by Musqueam, Coast Salish artist, Melaney Gleeson-Lyall and the work of 13 contributing artists. Made in Canada from paper sourced from sustainable forests; Vegetable based ink and water based protective coating. 32 pages; measures 8.5 in x 11 in
$11.00
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Native Northwest Colouring Journal: Northwest Coast First Nations & Native Art
This colouring journal encourages creativity and reflection and presents opportunities for all ages. Slow down and explore colouring while learning about the Indigenous Peoples and cultures of the Pacific Northwest. Find your own magical and mysterious story woven within these pages. Featuring text by Melaney Gleeson-Lyall and the work of over 10 contributing artists. Made from paper sourced from sustainable forests; Vegetable based ink and water based protective coating. 32 pages; measures 8.5 in x 11 in
$9.00
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Native Northwest Colouring our Drums: Northwest Coast First Nations and Native Art
Find your own creative rhythm in Colouring our Drums. This colouring journal encourages creativity and reflection and presents opportunities for all ages. Slow down and explore colouring while learning about the Indigenous Peoples and cultures of the Pacific Northwest. Find your own magical and mysterious story woven within these pages. Featuring text by Melaney Gleeson-Lyall and the work of over 10 contributing artists. Made in Canada from paper sourced from sustainable forests; Vegetable based ink and water based protective coating. 32 pages.
$9.00
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Haida Counting Wild Bears Board Book
Gryn White is a Haida artist from Masset, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Haida Gwaii is a rainforest that stretches over 150 islands and is abundant with wildlife. As the traditional home of the Haida people, Haida Gwaii is rich with stories, legends, and a culture that honours and respects the land and its inhabitants.
$12.00
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Lewis Mehl-Madrona Coyote Healing: Miracles In Native Medicine
This book distils the common elements in miracle cures to help people start their own healing journey. Looking at 100 cases of individuals who experienced miracle cures, Dr. Mehl-Madrona found the same preconditions that Native American healers know are necessary in order for miracles to occur. The author reveals what he learned from both his own practice and the interviews he conducted with survivors about the common features of their path back to wellness. This book tells of another kind of miracle - finding faith, hope, and serenity even when a cure seems impossible.
$22.00
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Lewis Mehl-Madrona Coyote Medicine: Lessons From Native American Healing
Inspired by his Cherokee grandmother's healing ceremonies, Lewis Mehl-Madrona enlightens readers to "alternative" paths to recovery and health. Coyote Medicine isn't about eschewing Western medicine when it's effective, but about finding other answers when medicine fails: for chronic sufferers, patients not responding to medication, or "terminal" cases that doctors have given up on. In the story of one doctor's initiation into alternative ways to spiritual and physical health, Coyote Medicine provides the key to untapped healing methods available today.
$25.99
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Lewis Mehl-Madrona Coyote Wisdom: The Power of Story in Healing
Lewis Mehl-Madrona explores the healing use of stories passed down from generation to generation in Native American culture and describes how we can apply this wisdom to empower and transform our own lives. A storytelling approach to transformation starts with how we were created and how we can re-create ourselves through the stories we tell. As we explore the archetypal characters and situations that populate the inner world of our stories, we can experience breakthroughs of healing and even miracles of transformation. The author also draws upon the cultures of other indigenous peoples - the Maori, East Africans, Mongolians, Aborigines, and Laplanders - to illustrate the healing use of stories throughout the world.
$18.95
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Karen McBride Crow Winter: A Novel
Since coming home to Spirit Bear Point First Nation, Hazel Ellis has been dreaming of an old crow. He tells her he's here to help her, save her. From what, exactly? Sure, her dad's been dead for almost two years and she hasn't quite reconciled that grief, but is that worth the time of an Algonquin demigod? Soon Hazel learns that there's more at play than just her own sadness and doubt. The quarry that's been lying unsullied for over a century on her father's property is stirring the old magic that crosses the boundaries between this world and the next. With the aid of Nanabush, Hazel must unravel a web of deceit that, if left untouched, could destroy her family and her home on both sides of the Medicine Wheel.
$24.99
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Dawn Oman Dancing Bears 72 Piece Puzzle
Dancing Bears 72 piece puzzle designed by Dawn Oman, Chipewyan Métis. The artist is paid a royalty on every 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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Leanne Simpson Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
Many promote Reconciliation as a "new" way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral cultures, and traditions of governance. Simpson explores philosophies and pathways of regeneration, resurgence, and a new emergence through the Nishnaabeg language, Creation Stories, walks with Elders and children, celebrations and protests, and meditations on these experiences. She stresses the importance of illuminating Indigenous intellectual traditions to transform their relationship to the Canadian state.
$24.95
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Dancing with a Ghost : Exploring Indian Reality
As a Crown Attorney working with First Nations in remote northwestern Ontario, Rupert Ross learned that he was routinely misinterpreting the behaviour of Aboriginal victims, witnesses, and offenders, both in and out of court. Dancing with a Ghost is Ross's attempt to give some definition to the cultural gap that bedevils the relationships and distorts the communications between Native peoples and the dominant white Canadian society-and to encourage others to begin their own respectful cross-cultural explorations. As Ross discovered, traditional perspectives have a great deal to offer modern-day Canada, not only in the context of justice but also in terms of the broader concepts of peaceful social organization and personal fulfillment.
$24.00
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Dancing with the Cranes
Dancing with the Cranes gives an understanding of birth, life and death. Chi's momma is soon to have a baby, but Chi is having a hard time being happy about it. Chi misses Temma (her grandma), who has passed away. Chi's momma and daddy help ease the pain of losing Temma and help Chi to understand life and death as a part of nature. Chi soon finds herself feeling comforted, knowing Temma will always be a part of her and looking forward to the new baby who will be a part of their lives.
$14.95
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Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, Crysalis Mulligan Dancing with the Wheel
The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the Wheel teaches you how to apply this philosophy to your daily life through many practical exercises and ceremonies. These exercises will help you gain energy from the spirits, which can heal both humans and the earth. Through Dancing with the Wheel, the second book specifically devoted to the Medicine Wheel, you will gain an increased understanding of the wheel and its developments over the last ten years.
$33.99
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