Indigenous Resources
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Barbara Joosse, Barbara Lavallee Mama Do You Love Me?
This exceptional board-book tells a beautiful and timeless story about a daughter's attempt to find the limit of her mother's love. Barbara Lavallee's exquisite illustrations of Alaska, with their exaggeratedly foreshortened perspective and rich tones of violet, blue-gray, and gray-green, tell of an easy declaration ("I love you more than the raven loves his treasure, more than the dog loves his tail, more than the whale loves his spout") that is pushed, and pushed, and ("What if I put salmon in your parka ... and ermine in your mukluks?") pushed. There's a quiet joyfulness in both the antics of the Inuit mother and daughter and in the animals--including a polar bear and a musk ox--that the daughter imagines she might become. A charming story for mothers and daughters of all ages.
$11.99
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Cherie Dimaline Marrow Thieves
Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The Indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden - but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.
$19.95
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Matching Game: Indigenous Art
Richard Shorty is a Northern Tutchone artist. Indigenous Art Matching Game features 20 images on 40 cardboard tiles.
$15.00
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Charlie Craigan Mayuk the Grizzly Bear: A Legend of the Sechelt People
These traditional teaching legends come straight from the oral traditions of the Sechelt Nation. Simple enough to be understood by young children, yet compelling enough for adults, they are gentle, beautifully presented cautionary tales. You'll want to read them again and again - and you'll learn a few words of the Shishalh language while you're at it. Charlie Craigan is a young Sechelt artist who works in a tiny studio set up in his bedroom. He studied traditional wood carving with Sechelt Nation carvers, but learned to draw and paint by studying books.
$9.95
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Medicine Cards
Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals is an advanced tool for achieving personal growth and balanced living. Learn the meaning of animals signs in our daily lives and how these signs are powerful and meaningful to our life situations. When we reconnect to the animals we reconnect to the earth and to ourselves.
$42.00
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Medicine Unbundled
A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care The memories recounted by these survivors-from gratuitous drug and surgical experiments to electroshock treatments intended to destroy the memory of sexual abuse-are truly harrowing, and will surely shatter any lingering illusions about the virtues or good intentions of our colonial past. Yet, this is more than just the painful history of a once-so-called vanishing people (a people who have resisted vanishing despite the best efforts of those in charge); it is a testament to survival, perseverance, and the power of memory to keep history alive and promote the idea of a more open and just future
$22.95
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Medicine Walk
By the celebrated author of Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese has crafted a stunning novel that has all the timeless qualities of a classic. It recounts the universal story of a father/son struggle in a fresh, utterly memorable way, set in dramatic landscape of the BC Interior. This is a novel about love, friendship, courage, and the idea that the land has within it powers of healing, Medicine Walk reveals the ultimate goodness of its characters and offers a deeply moving and redemptive conclusion.
$21.00
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Medicine Wheel Workbook
Medicine Wheel Workbook: Finding Your Healthy Balance Many Indigenous cultures on Turtle Island recognize the Medicine Wheel as a sacred symbol. The Medicine Wheel has four equal areas; black, white, red and yellow. These areas represent the four directions, four seasons, four elements, four stages of life and four sacred plants. The Medicine Wheel represents unity and balance between all things, including living a healthy life mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and physically. By understanding the teachings of the Medicine Wheel we can gain a deeper understanding of our holistic health. Through a careful selection of teachings, followed by interactive activities, this book will encourage children to live well and find their healthy balance. This workbook can be used as a teacher resource in your classroom or by parents teaching their children at home. Lessons and activities may be photocopied to use within your classroom or home.
$19.99
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Meshom and The Little One
After 10-year-old Shawna moves to the West Coast with her mother, she misses everything from back home, including her school friends and the wide prairie skies of Manitoba. But most of all she misses her Meshom (grandfather). Delightfully, he arrives for her birthday and brings with her a surprising Little One with many important lessons to teach her.
$14.95
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John Balloue Messenger From Above 1000 Piece Puzzle
Messenger From Above 1000 piece puzzle designed by John Balloue, Cherokee. 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+
$19.00
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Misaabe's Stories
Selected for the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids & Teens Misaabe tells great stories -about trolls, and x-ray glasses, and secret agents, and his super-exciting life. But is real life so bad? Misaabe's Stories is one book in The Seven Teachings Stories series. The Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe-love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth-are revealed in seven stories for children. Set in urban landscapes, Indigenous children tell familiar stories about home, school, and community. Great ideas for using this book in your classroom can be found in the Teacher's Guide for The Seven Teachings Stories.
$9.95
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Moccasin Goalie
K-Gr 3--Danny loves to play hockey with his friends in their small Canadian town. Though he can't skate because of a ``crippled leg and foot,'' he plays goalie in his leather moccasins. When a town team is formed, he is cut because he can't skate. Very disappointed, his spirits are revived when weeks later the coach asks him to replace the team's injured goalie in the biggest game of the year. Danny steps in, plays well, and is invited to stay on the squad for the playoffs.
$10.95
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Monkey Beach
Set in the coastal Haisla village of Kitamaat near British Columbia's dauntingly gorgeous Queen Charlotte Islands, Monkey Beach is the story of Lisa and her Haisla community, including uncles involved in First Nations warrior movements, industrious grandmothers with one foot in the grave and the other in various spirit worlds, and the long-armed specter of residential schools. The path to adulthood (and you risk a bloody nose if you call Lisa an adult) for Lisa and her friends are beset by the dangers of substance abuse and family violence but sprinkled with hopes as varied as Olympic gold or, even a "really great truck."
$23.00
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Mwakwa Talks to the Loon
A Cree Story for Children Winner of the Aboriginal Children s Book of the Year Award 2006 Anskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival and Book Awards Kayâs is a young Cree man who is blessed with a Gift that makes him a talented hunter. But when he becomes proud and takes his abilities for granted, he loses his Gift, and the People grow hungry. With the help of the Elders and the Beings that inhabit the water, Kayâs learns that to live a life of success, fulfillment and peace, he must cherish and respect the talents and skills he has been given. The artwork is stunning and the story is timeless. What incredible medicine for the world. Richard Van Camp, author of A Man Called Raven and What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? Artist and storyteller Dale Auger, Ph.D., is a Sakaw Cree from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta.
$12.95
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Monique Gray Smith, Julie Flett My Heart Fills with Happiness Board Book
The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. International speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote My Heart Fills with Happiness to support the wellness of Indigenous children and families, and to encourage young children to reflect on what makes them happy.
$12.95
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My Name Is Arnaktauyok
The Life and Art of Germaine Arnaktauyok In this book, the author tells the story of her life in her own words: her "very traditional Inuk life" growing up in Nunavut at a camp near Igloolik, and her experiences later in a residential school in Chesterfield Inlet; her education as an artist in Winnipeg and Ottawa; and her return to the North, where she continues to create drawings, etchings, and illustrations that have been featured in museums and galleries worldwide.
$24.95
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Jacques Pasquet, Marion Arbona My Wounded Island
This book is based on the challenges faced by the Iñupiat people who live on the small islands north of the Bering Strait near the Arctic Circle. There's an invisible creature in the waves around Sarichef. It is altering the lives of the Iñupiat people who call the island home. A young girl and her family are forced to move to the center of the island for refuge from the rising sea level. Soon the entire village will have to relocate to the mainland. Heartbroken, the young girl and her grandfather worry: what else will be lost when they are forced to abandon their homes and their community?
$19.95
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Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona Narrative Medicine: The Power of Story in Indigenous Healing
The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process Lewis Mehl-Madrona's Narrative Medicine examines the foundations of the indigenous use of story as a healing modality. Citing numerous case histories that demonstrate the profound power of narrative in healing, the author shows how when we learn to dialogue with disease, we come to understand the power of the "story" we tell about our illness and our possibilities for better health. He shows how this approach also includes examining our relationships to our extended community to find any underlying disharmony that may need healing. Mehl-Madrona points the way to a new model of medicine--a health care system that draws its effectiveness from listening to the healing wisdom of the past and also to the present-day voices of its patients.
$25.95
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Kelly Robinson Native Animals
The book introduces young children to the animals of the Northwest Coast through the art of Kelly Robinson, Nuxalk and Nuu-Chah-Nulth. She provides simple sentences about the environment where each animal thrives.
$11.00
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Northwest Coast Native Animals Matching Game
Using images of West Coast wildlife to teach logic and comprehension, this card game is a uniquely Canadian educational tool for children. Fun, bright, and made with non-toxic paints and soy-based dyes, the Northwest Coast Native Animals Matching Game is comprised of 48 tiles. It comes in a cardboard box measuring 7 3/4" x 5" x 2". Compact and portable, this game makes for a great gift. Creatures depicted include the octopus, beaver, halibut, bear, and hummingbird! Match together 24 animal pairs by 13 Northwest Coast Native artists. Ages 5 and up.
$25.00
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Not My Girl
Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by evocative illustrations, Not My Girl makes the original, award-winning memoir, A Stranger at Home, accessible to younger children. It is also a sequel to the picture book When I Was Eight. A poignant story of a determined young girl's struggle to belong, it will both move and inspire readers everywhere.
$9.95
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ohpikinawasowin/Growing a Child: Implementing Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Indigenous Families
Contributors to this collection invert the long-held, colonial relationship between Indigenous peoples and systems of child welfare in Canada. Child welfare for Indigenous peoples that is informed and guided by Indigenous practices and understandings leads to reinvigorating traditional knowledges, practices, and ceremonies related to children and families that have existed for centuries. This book describes wisdom-seeking journeys and service-provision changes that occurred in Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 territory on Turtle Island. Including nehiyaw (Cree) and Blackfoot teachings, this collection forms a whole related to the Turtle Lodge Teachings, which expresses nehiyaw stages of development, and works to undo the colonial trappings of Canada's current child welfare system.
$33.00
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Jason Adair Ojibway Animals Board Book
Learn about the importance of animals in Ojibway culture in this beautifully illustrated board book. Each page features a stunning illustration and text by Ojibway artist, Jason Adair. Parents will appreciate the author's excerpt on the back discussing how shape and form relate to Ojibway art. Soy based ink and water based protective coating. Made from paper sourced from sustainable forests.
$12.00
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Richard Wagamese One Drum: Stories & Ceremonies for a Planet
One Drum draws from the foundational teachings of Ojibway tradition, the Grandfather Teachings. Focusing specifically on the lessons of humility, respect, and courage, the volume contains simple ceremonies that anyone can do to foster harmony and connection. Writing of neglect, abuse, and loss of identity, Wagamese recalls living on the street, going to jail, drinking too much, feeling rootless and afraid, and then the feeling of hope he gained from connecting with the spiritual ways of his people. He believes that ceremony has the power to unify and to heal for people of all backgrounds.
$21.95
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