Learn the meaning behind the phrase, ‘Every Child Matters.' Orange Shirt Day founder, Phyllis Webstad, offers insights into this heartfelt movement.
This Handbook includes sugested guidelines for many types of ceremonies. Some or all aspects may be included. Read more in secondary pictures below.
Jesintel: Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders is a gathering of stories for all generations, past, present, and future. Dynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesi
Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal A 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner “A wonderful and sweet book . . . Lovely stuff.” ―The New York Times Book Review Told in lively and powerful verse by deb
Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption―a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly i
For more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada. Artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket to make sure that history is never forgotten. The Blanket is a livin
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A clear, concise guide to more than 130 edible and medicinal plants and fungi that grow wild throughout the west coast of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest states.
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.
Phyllis's Orange Shirt by Phyllis Webstad When Phillis was a little girl, she was excited to go to residential school for the first time. Her Granny bought her a shiny new orange shirt that she loved and wore to school for her first day. When she arrived
By Robin Wall Kimmerer Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings--asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass--offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've fo
This companion manual to Volume 1 puts First Nations art into deeper cultural context, providing Native Indian philosophy, knowledge and skills foundation, code of ethics, and interviews with a contemporary First Nations family, as well as some aspects of
This companion manual to Volume 1 puts First Nations art into deeper cultural context, providing Native Indian philosophy, knowledge and skills foundation, code of ethics, and interviews with a contemporary First Nations family, as well as some aspects of
Learn Pacific Northwest Coast formline art with step-by-step instructions on how to draw, design, paint and carve in the PNW art style. Contains step-by-step instructions and illustrations on the basics of drawing, designing, painting and carving in the
This Place: 150 Years Retold by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Katherena Vermette, Jen Storm, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, David Alexander Robertson (Goodreads Author), Richard Van Camp (Goodreads Author), Brandon Mitchell, more… 4.42 · Rat
Our Traditional Medicines is part of the Strong Stories: Kwakwaka’wakw series. Strong Stories focus on different First Nation territories from across Canada and the United States. These stories reflect the belief that our stories are the roots of our peop
A finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize A young girl delights in a visit to her grandpa’s farm. She and her cousins run through the fields, explore the root cellar where the salmon and jars of fruit are stored, swing
“We Are All Connected” is a series that explores how we all live together in a shared balance upon Mother Earth. Each book explores a specific ecosystem with a focus on one animal and its adaptations for survival within that ecosystem. Indigenous intervie
This booklet is an ethnobotany of the plants and trees known to the Upper Sto:lo people of the Fraser Valley. The names are given in the Upriver dialects of the Halq'emeylem Language. The book lists the name of the plant in Halq'emeylem, English and Lat
This book was written for preschool children by: Th'et-simiya (Wendy Richie) of Sq'ewqeyl and Illustrated by Fred Jackson of Ch'iyaqtel.
