ISBN: 9781772272727

Price: $19.95

Author(s): Serapio Ittusardjuat

Format: Hard Cover

Publisher: Inhabit Media

Publication: 2020

Book Synopsis: How I Survived Four Nights on the Ice is the harrowing first-person account of Serapio Ittusardjuat's four nights spent on the open sea ice. He had few supplies and no water. This story shows courage, strength and patience as he recounts the traditional knowledge and skills that kept him alive after his snowmobile broke down halfway across the sea ice on a trip back from a fishing camp. There are notes on Inuktitut pronunciation. Full-colour illustrations throughout

Curriculum Connection: Traditional Knowledge, Inuit

Author Details: Written by Serapio Ittusardjuat who was born in a Qarmaq at Akunniq; and illustrated by Matthew Hoddy.

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/how-i-survived-four-nights-on-the-ice-pb?srsltid=AfmBOoo-fNOz0Bm11aYr1bv0faFsyoyN6mrNfB-Ywf_aBcUJttKfoMdN 

ISBN: 9781459836129

Price: $24.95

Author(s): Carey Newman

Format: Hard Cover

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Publication: 2022

Book Synopsis: Artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket to make sure that history is never forgotten. The Blanket is a living work of art—a collection of hundreds of objects from those schools. It includes everything from photos, bricks, hockey skates, graduation certificates, dolls and piano keys to braids of hair. Behind every piece is a story. And behind every story is a residential school Survivor, including Carey's father. This book is a collection of truths about what happened at those schools, but it's also a beacon of hope and a step on the journey toward reconciliation. Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non‐Fiction 2023; 2023 Yellow Cedar Award Nominees Grades 5-8, non-fiction

Curriculum Connection: Curriculum Connection - Residential school

Author Details: Carey Newman or Hayalthkin'geme is a multidisciplinary artist and master carver and Kirstie Hudson is an editor and writer in Victoria, British Columbia.

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/the-witness-blanket-truth-art-and-reconciliation-hc 

ISBN: 9780994004796

Price: $12.99

Author(s): Sara General

Format: Paperback

Publisher:  Spirit & Intent

Publication: 2016

Book Synopsis: Sara General draws on the author's Mohawk cultural traditions and history. Set in contemporary time two sisters, Maple and Eva, have experiences that have caused them extreme heartbreak. But when a kid at school bullies Eva, she takes drastic measures and signs a magical contract with a powerful witch who promises her a lifetime of freedom from pain. Little does she know, she will be giving up everything she loves, including her friends, family, and memories. Horrified by the witch's duplicity, Maple sets out on a mission to free her sister. Aided by a shape shifting dog named Oakley, Maple's journey brings her into contact with Tricksters, Wizards, Stone Giants and Whirlwinds. But with every step she takes—time is running out. Can Maple save her sister before it's too late? Or will Eva be lost forever? . Highly recommended.

Curriculum Connection: Chapter book, Adventure, Mohawk

Author Details: Odadrihonyanisoh (Sara General) is Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She writes MG and YA speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy), inspired by themes and events in Haudenosaunee history. This background is seamlessly woven into the compelling story that leaves the reader wanting more.

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/9780994004796 

ISBN: 9781773216201

Price: $23.99

Author(s): Elizabeth LaPensée

Format: Hard Cover

Publisher: Annick Press

Publication: 2022

Book Synopsis: Anishinaabe culture and storytelling meet Alice in Wonderland in this coming-of-age graphic novel that explores Indigenous and gender issues through a fresh yet familiar looking glass.Aimée, a non-binary Anishinaabe middle-schooler, is on a class trip to offer gifts to Paayehnsag, the water spirits known to protect the land. While stories are told about the water spirits and the threat of the land being taken over for development, Aimée zones out, distracting themselves from the bullying and isolation they’ve experienced since expressing their non-binary identity. When Aimée accidentally wanders off, they are transported to an alternate dimension populated by traditional Anishinaabe figures in a story inspired by Alice in Wonderland. To gain the way back home, Aimée is called on to help Trickster by hunting down dark water spirits with guidance from Paayehnsag. On their journey, Aimée faces off with the land-grabbing Queen and her robotic guards and fights the dark water spirits against increasingly stacked odds. Illustrated by KC Oster with a modern take on their own Ojibwe style and cultural representation, Rabbit Chase is a story of self-discovery, community, and finding one’s place in the world.

Curriculum Connection: Graphic Novel, History, Metis

Author Details: Rabbit Chase is written by author Elizabeth LaPensée, Anishinaabe, Métis, and Irish; illustrated by KC Oster (he/she/they), an Ojibwe-Anishinaabe comic artist and illustrator.; and translated by Aarin Dokum, Odawa and a fluent Anishinaabemowin speaker originally from Manitoulin Island.

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/rabbit-chase-hc-fncr-2023 

ISBN: 9781946163219

Price: $26.53

Author(s): Dawn Quigley

Format: Paperback

Publisher: North Dakota State University Press

Publication: 2020

Book Synopsis: This story is set in Minnesota and the Turtle Mountain Chippewa reservation in North Dakota. Apple Starkington’s mother, a member of Turtle Mountain Chippewa, died after giving birth to her. Growing up with her father and stepmother, and living in upper middle-class suburbia, Apple feels like she doesn’t fit in. She has experienced racism at school when she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Native American descent. No-one seems to want her in their space. Her father’s reluctance to tell her about her mother’s Chippewa family adds to her questioning about who she is and her sense of belonging. Apple feels like she is running between two lives and is stuck in the middle. When she visits her Turtle Mountain relatives she begins to understand who she is and what it means to be Indigenous. She meets her relatives who teach her Chippewa customs. She learns more about her mother’s life and loves. There are 33 chapters,  a prologue, epilogue, appendix with recipes, glossary and notes about the author and press. Apple in the Middle won national recognition from the American Indian Library Association (AILA), which honours the best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians. Winner of the 2018 Moonbeam Children's Book Award for Young Adult Fiction--General and the 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Honors Award.

Curriculum Connection: Chapter Book, Identity

Author Details: Dawn Quigley, enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, is published by North Dakota State University Press. 

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/9781946163219 

ISBN: 9781250750655

Price: $24.99

Author(s): Nasugraq Rainey Hopson

Format: Hard Cover

Publisher:  Roaring Brook Press

Publication: 2023

Book Synopsis: Eagle Drums is the story of how Iñupiaq people were given the gift of music, song, dance, community, and everlasting tradition. An origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Native Alaskan tradition. As his family prepares for winter, a young, skilled hunter must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping—the same mountain where his two older brothers died. When he reaches the mountaintop, he is immediately confronted by a terrifying eagle god named Savik. Savik gives the boy a choice: follow me or die like your brothers. What comes next is a harrowing journey to the home of the eagle gods and unexpected lessons on the natural world, the past that shapes us, and the community that binds us.

Curriculum Connection: Chapter book, Storytelling, Inupiaq

Author Details: By Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson, Inupiat

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/eagle-drums 

ISBN: 9780735269026

Price: $13.99

Author(s): Wab Kinew

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Random Canada

Publication: 2022

Book Synopsis: An Indigenous teen girl is caught between two worlds, both real and virtual, in the YA fantasy debut from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew.  Bugz is caught between two worlds. In the real world, she’s a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and life on the Rez. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massively multiplayer video game universe. Feng is a teen boy who has been sent from China to live with his aunt, a doctor on the Rez, after his online activity suggests he may be developing extremist sympathies. Meeting each other in real life, as well as in the virtual world, Bugz and Feng immediately relate to each other as outsiders and as avid gamers. And as their connection is strengthened through their virtual adventures, they find that they have much in common in the real world, too: both must decide what to do in the face of temptations and pitfalls, and both must grapple with the impacts of family challenges and community trauma. But betrayal threatens everything Bugz has built in the virtual world, as well as her relationships in the real world, and it will take all her newfound strength to restore her friendship with Feng and reconcile the parallel aspects of her life: the traditional and the mainstream, the east and the west, the real and the virtual. Wab Kinew is the bestselling, award-winning author of Go Show the World and The Reason You Walk. 2023 Red Maple Award™ Nominees Grades 7-8, fiction

Curriculum Connection: Chapter book, Adventure

Author Details: Wab Kinew of Onigaming First Nation.

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/walking-in-two-worlds-pb 

ISBN: 9780735269033

Price: $23.99

Author(s): Wab Kinew

Format: Hard Cover

Publisher:  Tundra Books

Publication: 2023

Book Synopsis: The boundaries between the virtual and the real world become dangerously blurred for a young Indigenous girl in the follow-up to the YA fantasy debut Walking in Two Worlds from bestselling Indigenous author Wab Kinew of Onigaming First Nation. Devastated by the loss of her beloved older brother to cancer, Bugz returns to the place where she can always find solace and strength: the Floraverse. Over the past year, she has gained back all that she had lost in that virtual world, and while the remaining ClanLess members still plot against her, she is easily able to overcome their attacks. Even better, she's been secretly working on a bot that will be both an incredible weapon and a source of comfort: Waawaate. With the Waawaate bot looking exactly like the brother she misses so much — even acting so much like him — Bugz feels ready to show him off to Feng, who has become a constant companion in the Verse, and she cannot wait to team up with both friend and bot to secure her dominance once and for all. But Feng has his own issues to deal with, especially when news that his parents are alive and want to contact him threatens to send his new life on the Rez into upheaval. As they work through their complicated feelings of grief and loss, Feng and Bugz find themselves becoming ever closer. But disturbances in the Floraverse cannot be ignored, especially when Bugz realizes that her Waawaate bot is growing in powers beyond her control . . . Sequel to 'Walking in Two Worlds'.

Curriculum Connection: Curriculum Connection - Chapterbook, Adventure

Author Details: Wab Kinew of Onigaming First Nation.

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/the-everlasting-road 

ISBN: 9781513645629

Price: $23.75

Author(s): Thomas Peacock

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Holy Cow Press

Publication: 2020

Book Synopsis: The Wolf ’s Trail, an Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves, tells  the story of Zhi-Shay, an elder wolf, and a litter of young wolves living somewhere on the side of a hill overlooking the river that flows through Nagahchiwangong in Northern Minnesota. Zhi-Shay, who knows the whole story of the parallel relationship between wolves and the Ojibwe going all the way back to the beginning, sharing it with his nieces and nephews, and us. Replete with universal lessons, The Wolf’s Trail is the story of the Ojibwe, told by wolves, of what they were and have become, and the promise of their becoming. 

Curriculum Connection: Chapter book, All Our Relations, Wolves

Author Details: By Thomas D. Peacock, a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe Ojibwe.

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/9781513645629 

ISBN: 9781772034288

Price: $14.95

Author(s): Doris George

Format: Paperback

Publisher:  Heritage House

Publication: 2022

Book Synopsis: A magical children’s picture book, written in Cree and English, depicting the transformation of a barren landscape into a rich natural world where an elderly couple can spend their remaining days. Rooted in the historical displacement and relocation of members of the Chemawawin First Nation from their Ancestral homeland, The Move is a bilingual story of two Cree Elders adjusting to life in their new environment. The story presents two contrasting landscapes of the old community—the homeland of the Chemawawin People—and the new community of Easterville, which at first appears barren and lifeless. Gradually, the couple begins to incorporate their old customs and traditions into their current surroundings. Family members begin to visit, and eventually nature begins to bloom all around them. Through traditional Cree storytelling techniques and vivid imagery, the new landscape springs to life and becomes a true community, filled with life and happiness. 2022 Governor General's Literary Awards for young people's literature, illustrated books finalist.

Curriculum Connection: Community, Cree

Author Details: Doris George is a Cree educator. She is the principal of Chemawawin Schools in Easterville, Manitoba, where she also taught Cree language. Don K. Philpot is an educator specializing in Cree language structures and use, language and literacy education, and children’s literature. Alyssa Koski is an illustrator and member of the Kainai Nation. 

URL: https://goodminds.com/products/ka-aciwikicik-the-move-pb