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Hummingbird / Aamo-binashee
Hummingbird / Aamo-binashee
ISBN: 9781459837140
Price: $21.95
Author(s): Leason, Jennifer
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: You never walk alone. Remember the hummingbird's teachings. Remember you are loved. Kokum warned us to watch out for one another. If we weren't careful, Windigo would eat us. But one night, alone in the darkness, I felt its breath on my neck. Windigo's lies crept into my heart, and I believed them. When we lose connection with others, we lose ourselves, and Windigo's darkness grows and spreads. In this deeply emotional and beautifully illustrated picture book, the ancestors send a hummingbird to a child lost in Windigo’s darkness. Its teachings of resilience, love and connection bring the child home and remind us that our ancestors are always watching and can help us find our way if we only ask. This bilingual book includes full text in both English and Anishinaabemowin.
Curriculum Connection: Traditional Stories, relationships, community, Windigo
Author Details: Dr. Jennifer Leason is an off-reserve member of Minegoziibe Anishinabe (Pine Creek First Nation) in Manitoba.
You Are Not Alone
You Are Not Alone
ISBN: 9781772312287
Price: $19.95
Author(s): Tagiuk Ikkidluak
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: You Are Not Alone is an illustrated children's book about growing up in the North as an Inuit child and looking for friends.
Curriculum Connection: Friendship, Home
Author Details: Tagiuk Ikkidluak is an emerging Inuit author from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories who is passionate about children's literature. You Are Not Alone is his first published book. Arnaq Pitsiulak is an Inuit artist and illustrator based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Four Fallen Eagles
Four Fallen Eagles
ISBN: 9781778540431
Price: $19.99
Author(s): Whetung, Karen
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Medicine Wheel Publishing
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: Wanting to belong can be hard, and walking away can be even harder. When a storm plucks four eaglets from their nest to the forest floor, the displaced eaglets proceed on a journey across Turtle Island to rediscover where they belong. One by one, the eaglets encounter communities of creatures who claim them. Will these lost eaglets grow the courage needed to claim their true identity? Inspired by the Students and Community she has worked with, Anishinaabe author Karen Whetung shares a global metaphor for cultural assimilation and the desire to tell our stories, find our truths, and claim our place in the world in Four Fallen Eagles.
Curriculum Connection: Belonging, Eagles
Author Details: Karen Whetung is Anishinaabe and of mixed European ancestry and currently lives and works in Victoria, B.C. as an Indigenous Mentor and Storyteller in the local school districts. She believes that through sharing stories we can heal our communities, celebrate our diversity, and create a world where we all belong.
The Creator's Plan
The Creator's Plan
ISBN: 9781773661704
Price: $14.95
Author(s): Jessica Jerome
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Acorn Press
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: My son, you do not need black hair, brown skin, or brown eyes like me to pray and practice your culture. You will learn the songs and the drumming in time. The Creator's plan was to give you everything that makes you who you are, and you are perfect to me just the way you are! Always remember that, no matter what anyone else says to you. We need to pray for those children too, my son, as hard as that may seem. But remember, you are exactly how the Creator planned you to be, and I will love you until the end of time." As a Mi'kmaq child, Richard Pellissier-Lush grew looking different than other the other Indigenous children. He didn't feel he fit in with the non-Indigenous or the Indigenous children he knew. But his mother continually reminding him that he was part of the Creator's plan empowered him to embrace his culture no matter what he looked like. Her chorus of encouragement stayed with him through his childhood and helped make him the man he is today.
Curriculum Connection: Belonging
Author Details: Richard Pellissier-Lush is a Mi'kmaq man from Lennox Island First Nation, PEI. Jessica Jerome is a two-spirit graphic designer, born in the Listuguj Mi'kmaw First Nation, and raised as a member of the Mi'kmaq's of Gesgapegiag, located along the banks of the Gaspé Peninsula.
A Family Tree
A Family Tree
ISBN: 9780063242463
Price: $24.99
Author(s): Staci Lola Drouillard, Anishinaabe
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: A modern-day twist to The Giving Tree, this book chronicles the changes brought upon a beloved family tree that must be uprooted and planted on new land. This debut picture book by Staci Lola Drouillard celebrates resiliency, family bonds, and our deep connection to and responsibility for nature. Grandma’s garden was not just any garden. It was where a spruce tree, only as tall as baby Francis, reached her roots into the soil and stretched her branches toward the sky. Here, on the shore of Gichigaming, is where Francis and the sapling felt right at home. But when Grandma and Grandpa decide to move away, Francis wants to take the tree with them— can they? Brimming with tenderness, this story traces the journey of one family, and a little tree, as they adapt to change by drawing on the strength of their roots. Audience: Ages 4-8.
Curriculum Connection: Land-Based Learning, Relationships
Author Details: Staci Lola Drouillard, of Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe descendant; and illustrated by Kate Gardiner, of the Chaubunagungamaug band of Nipmuck Indians.
Walking Together
Walking Together
ISBN: 9781773217772
Price: $12.99
Author(s): Elder Dr. Albert D. Marshall & Louise Zimanyi
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Annick Press
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: This innovative picture book introduces readers to the concept of Etuaptmumk—or Two-Eyed Seeing, the gift of multiple perspectives in the Mi’kmaw language—as we follow a group of young children connecting to nature as their teacher. A poetic, joyful celebration of the Lands and Waters as spring unfolds: we watch for Robin's return, listen for Frog's croaking, and wonder at maple tree's gift of sap. Grounded in Etuaptmumk, also known as Two-Eyed Seeing—which braids together the strengths of Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing—and the Mi’kmaq concept of Netukulimk— meaning to protect Mother Earth for the ancestors, present, and future generations—Walking Together nurtures respectful, reciprocal, responsible relationships with the Land and Water, plant-life, animals and other-than- human beings for the benefit of all.
Curriculum Connection: All our Relations, Two-Eyed Seeing, Mi'kmaw
Author Details: Elder Dr. Albert D. Marshall is from the Moose Clan of the Mi'kmaw Nation, Eskasoni First Nation in Unama'ki-Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. A fluent speaker of Mi'kmaw, he has brought forth the concept of Etuaptmumk / Two-Eyed Seeing which honors the strengths of both Indigenous and non- Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing for the benefit of all. Louise Zimanyi, who is of French-Canadian and Hungarian descent, lives as a guest in Tkaronto/Toronto, Treaty 13 territory. As a professor and researcher, she is co- learning from and with the Land and wise teachers, co- transforming early childhood pedagogy and practice. Emily Kewageshig is an Anishnaabe artist and visual storyteller whose work captures the interconnection of life forms using both traditional and contemporary materials and methods. She creates artwork that highlights Indigenous knowledge and culture. Emily is from Saugeen First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
The Community of akihcikan askiy
The Community of akihcikan askiy
ISBN: 9781772312355
Price: $16.95
Author(s): Morin, Randy
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bookland Press
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: This book follows different characters called the Number People who live in the Indigenous community of akihcikan askiy. They reside on their native land alongside many different animals, including turtles, squirrels, and owls. Everyday, the Number People go on a new adventure! Moving from house to house, readers learn how the Number People live. How many things do they each have in their house? How do they spend their free time? Where does Number Four travel? What is Number Nine celebrating? While going about their day-to-day lives, the Number People learn how important it is to live with one another. When all together, they can support and help each other. Read this playful book to learn the Number People's secret formula to friendship! Also available in French.
Curriculum Connection: Picture book - Friendship
Author Details: Randy Morin is a teacher, storyteller and English-Cree translator from the Big River First Nation, Treaty Six area.
Snow Day
Snow Day
ISBN: 9781774713112
Price: $24.95
Author(s): Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: Capturing the magic of a snowfall, Snow Day follows an Indigenous family as they experience all of the delights of a winter's day. While Mom shovels the driveway and Dad cares for her brother by the fire, a young girl and her dog make snowflake tea, build a snow caterpillar, catch snowflakes on their tongues, and make snow angels. All while the snow continues to fall. At the end of the day, the girl is beckoned inside by the promise of hot chocolate, and regails her family with her adventures' and dreams of doing it all again tomorrow. This book contains colour illustrations.
Curriculum Connection: Picture book - Seasons, Winter, Snow
Author Details: Lindsay Gloade-Raining Bird is a mixed-Cree writer, poet.
URL: https://goodminds.com/products/snow-day-picture-book-hc
The Sharing Circle and Talking Stick
The Sharing Circle and Talking Stick
ISBN: 9781990297724
Price: $16.95
Author(s): Gloria Barker
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Indigenous Education Press
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: This rhyming book helps children learn and understand the Sharing Circle and using a Talking Stick in a Sharing Circle.
Curriculum Connection: Traditions, Cooperation
Author Details: Gloria Barker and Illustrated by Eric Peters.
URL: https://goodminds.com/products/the-sharing-circle-stories-about-first-nations-culture
Circle, Circle, Who Do You Hide?
Circle, Circle, Who Do You Hide?
ISBN: 9781990297922
Price: $19.95
Author(s): Sandra Samatte and Eric Peters
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Indigenous Education Press
Publication: 2024
Book Synopsis: This fun guessing book features a variety of North American Indigenous animals and is a great repetitive rhyming book that teaches shapes to young children.
Curriculum Connection: Shapes
Author Details: Author and Educator Sandra Samatte, Skownan First Nations.
URL: https://goodminds.com/products/circle-circle-who-do-you-hide
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