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Aboriginal Canadians Treaties Canada Environmental justice Indigenous peoples Canada Residential schools Juvenile literature Indigenous peoples Education Indigenous peoples Education Canada History Juvenile literature Indigenous peoples Government relations Indigenous peoples Social conditions Peuples autochtones Canada Relations avec l'État Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Social justiceKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, young Afro Indigenous girl Magnolia Flower sets off on a journey in her quest to be free and connect with others, proving how brave one can be when leading with one's heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction KendiSainte-Marie, Buffy
Summary: With lyrics by internationally renowned Cree Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie and images by award winning Cree-Metis author and illustator Julie Flett, this book, based on the song of the same name, is a love letter celebrating seasons, place, Indigenous traditions, and community. It is a song of hope. Of home. Of power and place and change and time. Of summer flowers turning fields to sun,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG SAIVermette, Katherena
Summary: Echo Desjardins, a thirteen-year-old Métis girl, is struggling with feelings of loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place--a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie--and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Highwater Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 GIRCraft, Aimée
Summary: "The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis's home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen--to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.7108 CRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J342.71082 CRABlackstock, Cindy.
Summary: Spirit Bear learns about residential schools and their impact on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, as well as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and its 94 calls to action, and the paper hearts planted after the report's release to honour the children who went to residential schools.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLASummary: This Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today's Indigenous communities. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century. Each hour explores a core tenet of Native American heritage: the power of Indigenous design, how language and artistry fuel the soul, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV MATBlackstock, Cindy
Summary: Spirit Bear is off on another adventure! Follow him as he learns about traditional knowledge and Residential Schools from his Uncle Huckleberry and his friend, Lak'insxw, before heading to Algonquin territory, where children teach him about Shannen's Dream. Spirit Bear and his new friends won't stop until Shannen's Dream of "safe and comfy schools" comes true for every First Nations student.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada 2018
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Summary: "No Country for Eight-Spotted Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples-his own and others"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2022