Siha Tooskin (Paul) and his Uncle Lenard help a school friend, Jeff learn about Nakota forms of traditional and non-traditional dance at a pow wow.
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Author:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSummary: - Author:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSummary:
Paul (Siha Tooskin) spends some time with his mother and they discuss the nature of life with respect to animals, the environment, and the Creator in the Nakota Indigenous tradition. There are also themes of endurance and resilience...
- Author:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSummary:
Ms. Baxter, a schoolteacher, is hoping to invite Siha Tooskin's (Paul's) grandparents to visit the classroom to offer information for her science class, and she asks Paul the respectful protocol for doing so, which in Nakota...
- Author:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSummary:
Siha Tooskin (Paul) learns from his grandfather about the eagle and the importance of respecting it and its feathers, along with other creatures in nature.
- Author:Bearhead, Wilson, Bearhead, CharleneSummary:
Siha Tooskin (Paul) experiences a bit of teasing (bullying) about his braid and his grandfather teaches him about how he can find strength in his hair through the Nakota tradition and rise above such petty taunts.
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In Siksikaitsitapi: Stories of the Blackfoot People, seven authors share their stories that come from both from legend and from their personal experiences, with stories in both Blackfoot and English languages. The book is illustrated...
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From the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children's Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of taking First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to non-Indigenous families. This systemic...
- Author:O'Dell, ScottSummary:
A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Ma'iingan knows she is a very good singer. Conflict erupts when her little sister wants to sing just like her. The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in...
- Author:Hollihan, TonySummary:
This well-paced narrative recounts the story of the great Sioux chief Sitting Bull's retreat into Canada after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The story tells of the respect that developed between the fierce warrior and the...
- Author:Dumont, AlbertSummary:
The ancestors, living at the time of European contact had a way with words. Poetry spilled effortlessly from their lips because the spirit of the land guided their words. I take seriously my belief that medicine of extraordinary healing...
- Author:Sammurtok, NadiaSummary:
Siuluk is a very strong man. He's so strong that people tell him he must be the last of the Tuniit, friendly giants who once lived in the North. Just like those giants, Siuluk is so strong that he can carry an entire walrus over...
- Author:Hall, HarronSummary:
A little girl meets a water spirit who asks her to protect and care for the water.
- Author:Gottfriedson, GarrySummary:
In Skin Like Mine Garry Gottfriedson offers a suite of poems on what it feels like to be inside the skin of many contemporary native individuals. He pulls no punches as he reflects on the challenges facing native people today. He speaks...
- Author:Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean, Qitsualik-Tinsley, RachelSummary:
In this adventurous novel--set in the ancient Arctic, but told by an inquisitive and entertaining contemporary narrator--a wandering Inuit hunter named Kannujaq happens upon a camp in grave peril. The inhabitants of the camp are Tuniit...
- Author:Lowinger, Kathy, Yellowhorn, EldonSummary:
From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited...
- Author:Tenasco, SunshineSummary:
Challa looked into the mirror and saw a brown girl with long hair, a big toothy smile, big brown eyes and the cutest little dimples that looked like raisins on bannock. When Challa comes home in tears after being teased about her smile...
- Author:Anderson, Wahwahbiginojii-David, Samatte, SandraSummary:
Smudging and the Four Sacred Medicines tells us how to use these Medicines in everyday life and in Ceremonies.
- Author:Pinkney, Jeff, Gait, DarleneSummary:
The dog shows up the way snow does on a winter's day. She just drifts in and stays, becoming the friend of a young Cree boy. The boy and the dog set out on an adventure that ends in a quandary involving quills and a big brother who...
- Author:Halfe, Louise Bernice (Sky Dancer), Gaertner, DavidSummary:
“I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time” — “The Crooked Good” Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe’s work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of...
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