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Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools Welcome to our 2011/12 catalogue

Dear teacher-librarians, public librarians, wholesalers and retailers: It is very gratifying for the Association of Book Publishers of BC (ABPBC) and its members to be able to provide teacher-librarians with the fourth Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools. Over the years, we have received many positive comments about this resource, which has become one of the most comprehensive in this subject area. Your peers selected all the titles in the “AbCat” for their suitability as supplementary resources for school libraries. Our evaluation team provides thoughtful feedback to us on curriculum match and grade levels, as well as appropriate comments and cautions. We value their expertise enormously. The ABPBC has been providing the catalogues BC Books for BC Schools and Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools for many years now. We have learned a lot in the process. If you are new to the catalogue you will find that they are helpfully organized first by appropriate level: Elementary (K-7), Secondary (8-12) and Cross-Grades for those books that are appropriate at both levels. Entries are organized alphabetically by title within each section. Because this catalogue is distributed nationally we have chosen to provide generic subject areas, which we hope is sufficient for your resourcing needs. Note too that the catalogue is available online at books.bc.ca under Resources for Teacher-Librarians. If you have any feedback on the catalogues or wish to be added to our mailing list, please email us at [email protected].

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Margaret Reynolds Executive Director Association of Book Publishers of BC September 2011

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cover artist Linus Woods Dog Soldier, 2011 Linus Woods is a Dakota/Ojibway Indian artist from the Long Plain First Nation in Southern Manitoba. While he has taken a few art and Native studies courses at Brandon University he is largely self-taught. Linus sees his paintings as expressions and extensions of his spiritual journey. His acrylic, oil and collage works on canvas feature pastel pallets and geometric shapes, and often include collaged images.

Canadian aboriginal books for schools 2011–2012 catalogue elementary

Anguti’s amulet christmas la fight for justice i see me angutiup Ânguanga pouchinn Lori Saigeon Margaret Manuel The Central Coast of Deborah L. Delaronde When Justice and his twin sister This appealing and sturdy Labrador Archaeology Virginia McCoy Charity become the targets of board book will provide a useful Partnership bullying, Justice feels it is up resource to accompany The Cynthia Colosimo A Métis boy spends a year to him to defend his family’s Roots of Empathy Program, an Sophie Tuglavina, trans. helping his grandparents at their cabin. Colourful, honour. But the bullies are expanding Social Responsibility This story, presented in both stylized pictures illustrate the bigger and more violent than project for studying babies Inuktitut and English, was traditional activities of each he is and the situation seems and mothers in early primary written by students working season culminating in a family beyond resolve. Afraid that classrooms. The simple pattern on an archaeological project reunion and the celebration of telling will only make things phrase of “I see me ...” on each in Labrador, a site inhabited Christmas and La Pouchinn worse, Justice hides the truth. page ends with a different verb, from 1720-1750. The story pudding. The poetic text lends His favourite place is the reserve highlighted in upper case letters, draws on their work, historical itself to reading aloud. The where his Mushum and Kokum which clearly describes the documents and oral history. pictures expand the text with live and there Justice finds some action of the baby pictured. A One winter, meat and oil have warmth and humour. Recipes peace as well as some good blank line below each sentence run out. Anguti’s anânsiak for La Pouchinn and Maple advice. With help from his in English allows for a different (Grandmother), an Ilitsitsok Sauce are included at the end family his self-confidence grows language to be added. The (shaman), predicts a terrible of the book along with a brief and Justice learns to look at the photographs depict the baby storm but that does not deter vocabulary guide. world that the bullies live in and playing with an aboriginal drum his father and brothers from to stand up for himself without and rattle as well as displaying hunting. Anguti and his sister resorting to violence. typical infant behaviour with set out after them. They kill a verbs such as drink, eat, smile, seal on an ice floe, then begin cry and to conclude, a hug and to drift far from home. After kiss with Mom. three days, they are rescued. The author is of Okanagan Anânsiak had sewn amulets into and Shuswap ancestry. She was Anguti’s parka to protect them. born in Kamloops, BC and is A separate section of the book the mother of two. provides images of an amulet and many tools and materials of Inuit life.

Grades: 3–7, Social Studies Grades: K–4, english Grades: 3–6, english Grades: K–2, english language arts, Social language arts, health & language arts, health & Index/Bibliography: No/No Studies career education career education ©2010 38 pp. 9"x8" Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No colour illustrations, b/w & colour photographs ©2011 32 pp. 8"x8" ©2009 128 pp. 5"x7" ©2009 8 pp. 5.75"x5.75" ISBN: 9781897317914 $14.95 PA colour illustrations ISBN: 9781550504057 $7.95 PA colour photographs ISBN: 9781894778879 $19.95 HC ISBN: 9781894778855 $6.95 HC Flanker Press Coteau Books www.flankerpress.com Theytus Books www.coteaubooks.com Theytus Books www.theytus.com www.theytus.com

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man-to-man melanie muin and the Storm Child Bill Swan bluelake’s dream seven bird Brenda Bellingham Betty Dorion hunters In this novel in the Sports a mi’kmaw night sky story In this historical adventure story Stories series, Michael is the Melanie’s mother moves to a bi-racial girl must rebuild smallest player on his lacrosse the city to finish her education Lillian Marshal, et al her life after being abandoned Kristy Read & team, the Thunder. He isn’t taking 10-year old Melanie by her Scottish father at Fort Sana Kavanagh respected or getting any playing along. Melanie resents losing Edmonton in the 1830s. Isobel time at the Ontario Provincial (Storm Child) struggles with the familiarity of life with This Mi’kmaw traditional sky Championships. Off the court, prejudice from both white and Kohkom, her grandmother, story, in Mi'kmaq and English, the Thunder and their rival native sides as she tries to fit on a Cree reserve in northern explains the movement of Ursa team, the Six Nations War- back in with her aboriginal Saskatchewan. Life in the Major (Big Dipper) around the riors, get into a scuffle over a family. At the same time, she city is difficult for them both; North Star (Tatapn) during misunderstanding. Tournament is discovering who she is as a she resists her mother’s new each of the seasons. As such, the officials misinterpret it as a seri- person in her own right. While bossiness and money is very stars were the calendar before ous fight with racial undertones on her travels she deals with tight. Though they learn to modern timekeeping. The seven and decide to disqualify both racial differences surrounding understand and appreciate hunters, each a star of Ursa teams. All the boys must work clothing, religion, family values, each other, in the end Melanie Major, are different species of together to convey the truth and gender and education. Isobel/ learns that although dreams can birds who are trying to catch save their places in the finals. Storm Child learns valuable come true, the reality can be their prey, the bear (muin). Michael’s sportsmanship and lessons from both cultures, but bittersweet. A helpful glossary During winter the bear’s spirit eloquence unexpectedly cast ultimately follows her own heart of Cree words is included. enters another bear, continuing him in a leadership which he as she remodels her life. Dorion also wrote Bay Girl. a never-ending cycle. Each also takes to the court during an Though published in 1985 This is her first novel. Racette of the birds has a different exciting final game. this historic story still has wrote and illustrated The Flower personality, reinforcing cultural Caution: Contains currency. The jacket cover, Beadwork People. This novel was expectations like generosity derogatory comments about however, may not appeal to a finalist for several Canadian and gratitude. The unique First Nations people. They today’s students. An Author’s book awards including two illustrations track the progress are handled appropriately Note contains the bibliographic Saskatchewan Book Awards. of the stars. The story also layers and rejected firmly by the reference to a newspaper article science and legend. An online characters. from 1832 that became the basis version is noted where one of this story can hear the original language. Includes an extensive glossary.

Grades: 3–7, english Grades: 5–7, english Grades: 2–7, science, social Grades: 4–7, english language arts language arts studies, visual arts language arts, social studies Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No ©2009 144 pp. 5"x7.75" ©1995 160 pp. 5"x7" ©2010 36 pp. 8.5"x8.5" Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781552774427 $8.95 PA b/w line drawings colour illustrations ©1985 124 pp. 4.25"x7" ISBN: 9780888627933 $6.95 PA James Lorimer & Company Ltd. ISBN: 9781550500813 $6.95 PA ISBN: 9781897009550 $11.95 PA www.lorimer.ca Coteau Books Cape Breton University Press James Lorimer & Company Ltd. www.coteaubooks.com www.cbup.ca www.lorimer.ca

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Aboriginal broken trail how fox saved inuit modern cultures in Jean Rae Baxter the people Gerald McMaster, ed. alberta edÀnÌ nǪgÈe dǪne gok’eĮDÌ This large format art book five hundred generations A sequel to The Way Lies North, this historical adventure story Virginia Football combines a comprehensive and James Wedzin Susan Berry & is set in 1780 when the British wide-ranging review of the most Jack Brink are fighting the Americans for How Fox Saved the People current understandings of Inuit control of the United States. history, culture, adaptation This book traces aboriginal tells a traditional story. Near The Oneida people, from north and art. Contributors range history and culture in Alberta Great Slave Lake, the people of the St. Lawrence, are loosely from writer John Ralston Saul, from the end of the ice age are starving because there are allied with the British. Broken celebrated Inuit filmmaker to the present day. Although no caribou. Everyone except Trail, a white boy who has been Zacharias Kunuk, Inuit artist written by museum curators Raven is very sad and hungry. raised by the Oneida, is enlisted David Ruben Piqtoukun as the companion book to the The people become suspicious by the British to carry a vital to noted historians and art Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal so they investigate. Working message south to the British curators. This is an invaluable Culture at the Provincial together with Fox, they find commander near Charlotte, resource and survey of Inuit Museum of Alberta, it is a useful and free the caribou hidden North Carolina. Broken Trail peoples and how they have resource on its own. Through by Raven. The text is in both journeys alone, surviving in adapted to southern Canadian narrative, sketches, diagrams, Dogrib and English and is the wilderness thanks to his influences and incursions in paintings and photographs illustrated by James Wedzin, a Oneida upbringing. Along the empowering ways. The colour it covers food, tools, art, First Nations artist. The package way, he befriends a Cherokee photographs and reproductions spirituality, the ancient bison includes a CD with a reading boy, with whom he shares his of the selected pieces offer an hunt, the fur-trade era, the long of the story in both languages. anger at the settlers taking enticing introduction to 20th years of cultural suppression An orthography guide and the over aboriginal land. In century Inuit art in sculpture, that followed the signing of translation of an oral version of Charlotte, he encounters his printmaking and drawing. treaties, the political movements the legend are included. own white brother, who has The editor received the Order of the 1960s, contemporary Respecting the traditional been wounded, and nurses him of Canada and the National self-government, health and communal ownership of stories, back to health. Broken Trail is Aboriginal Achievement education. The authors provide cultural protocols were followed confused. Is he of the aboriginal Award. insight on the struggles faced to create the print version. world or the white world? by aboriginal peoples, their Football and Wedzin also Caution: A disturbing scene enduring legacy and their collaborated on How the Fox of a family scalped leads to contributions to Canadian Got His Legs Crossed. Broken Trail realizing his task society. is to “find a better way”.

Grades: 6–12, social studies Grades: 5–9, english Grades: K–12, english Grades: 5–12, social studies, language arts, social language arts, social visual arts Index/Bibliography: No/No studies studies ©2011 92 pp. 8.5"x11" Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w & colour photographs & Index/Bibliography: No/No ©2010 190 pp. 10"x11" reproductions, line drawings, maps, ©2011 246 pp. 5.25"x7.75" ©2010 56 pp. 8"x10" b/w & colour photographs diagrams map colour illustrations, CD ISBN: 9781553657781 $55.00 PA ISBN: 9780778528524 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9781553801092 $11.95 PA ISBN: 9781894778756 $26.95 HC Douglas & McIntyre University of Alberta Press eBook: 9781553801245 $11.95 Theytus Books www.douglas-mcintyre.com www.uap.ualberta.ca Ronsdale Press www.theytus.com www.ronsdalepress.com

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jordin tootoo little voice relatives with the sea wolves the highs and lows in the roots living wild in the great journey of the first inuit Ruby Slipperjack bear rainforest a story about mÉtis to play in the nhl In this coming-of-age story, women's connection to Ian McAllister & Melanie Florence 10-year-old Ray feels as though the land Nicholas Read she is lost between two worlds: On October 9, 2003, Jordin Leah Marie Dorion that of her Ojibwa mother Rita Flamand, trans. This book provides readers Tootoo played his first and her deceased Caucasian with a unique look at a special NHL game for the Nashville father. Suffering from the void This story tells of a Métis group of wolves that live on the Predators. This was especially left in her life by the passing child who is taken by her BC coast. Unlike most wolves, impressive because he was the of her much-loved father and Grandmother into the bush to Sea Wolves are appreciated first ever Inuit person to play in teased at school for being learn about traditional plant and protected by the First the NHL. The story of Jordin’s of mixed descent, she seeks medicines. Along the way Nations people in the Great rise to fame is a captivating one. refuge by spending summers the wise old woman passes Bear Rainforest. They have Life at home in Rankin Inlet, in a remote Northern Ontario on important lessons about lived in harmony with these Nunavut was very different community where her Ojibwa gratefulness, respect and the creatures for hundreds of years. from the big cities where he grandmother resides. Her interdependence of living With full-colour photographs eventually went to pursue his grandmother teaches her about things. The illustrations are and fascinating facts, which are dream. This book chronicles the Ojibwa culture and the bursting with bright colours. presented on well laid out pages the ups and downs of Tootoo’s traditional way of life. Through The plant life is detailed. The of text, with extended captions personal life and career the experiences provided to her author also engages the other and fact boxes labeled as “wolf including his decision to go by her grandmother, Ray, or senses: a woodpecker drums to bites”, The Sea Wolves is a into rehab in 2010, as he fought “Naens”, meaning “little voice” the rhythm of Grandmother’s thought-provoking book about to achieve his goal of playing in Ojibwa, eventually finds her singing, a muskeg leaf tickles a “unique strain” of wolves hockey in the NHL. The author place in the world. the child’s fingers, she smells and their beautiful coastal and combines information about Little Voice is part of the In the odour of highbush rainforest habitat. aboriginal life and the history the Same Boat series, books cranberries, and tastes rose hip McAllister and Read also of Canada’s north with hockey by culturally diverse authors tea. A Michif-Cree translation wrote The Salmon Bears, which facts and Tootoo’s personal data bringing middle years readers accompanies the text. Includes explores the bears that live in simple, straightforward text. stories that represent Canadian a glossary and CD narrated in in the Great Bear Rainforest. Includes a glossary. cultural heritage. Slipperjack English and Michif-Cree. Book and website references are The suicide of his brother is shares her Ojibwa customs and Dorion also wrote The Giving included. included in the story. traditions with young readers in Tree. five other novels.

Grades: 4–10, social studies Grades: 4–10, english Grades: K–12, social studies, Grades: 4–8, science, social language arts visual arts studies Index/Bibliography: Yes/No ©2010 112 pp. 4.25"x7" Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/No b/w photographs ©2001 256 pp. 5"x7" ©2011 58 pp. 8.5"x11" ©2010 128 pp. 7.5"x9" ISBN: 9781552775318 $16.95 HC b/w illustrations colour illustrations, CD colour photographs, map 9781552775295 $9.95 PA ISBN: 9781550501827 $9.95 PA ISBN: 9781926795003 $12.95 PA ISBN: 9781554692064 $19.95 PA James Lorimer & Company Ltd. Coteau Books Gabriel Dumont Institute eBook: 9781554692088 $19.95 www.lorimer.ca www.coteaubooks.com www.gdins.org Orca Book Publishers www.orcabook.com

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a Stranger at vancouver kids the wild ride an arctic man home a history of the north the classic account of Lesley McKnight west mounted police sixty-five years in canada's a true story McKnight is passionate about 1873–1904 north Christy Jordan-Fenton & Vancouver. When she moved Charles Wilkins Ernie Lyall Margaret Pokiak-Fenton here at age 13, awestruck by Liz Amini-Holmes the city’s natural beauty, she Richly illustrated and attrac- The opening sentence of An thought she “was the luckiest tively designed, The Wild Arctic Man sets the tone and A Stranger at Home continues kid ever.” Eventually, she Ride is a lively account of the theme of the autobiography: the author’s biographical tale realized she wanted to tell early years of the North West “…I decided to do a book about begun in Fatty Legs. Two years the city’s history from the Mounted Police. Special atten- my life in the north (because) of loneliness and suffering perspective of its children tion is paid to the relationship I finally got fed up with all at residential school allowed who have a “unique outlook between the NWMP and the the baloney … written about Margaret to reach her dream on the world.” Presented indigenous peoples of the the north”. Born in Labrador, of learning to read. However, chronologically from a First prairies. Opening with the working for the Hudson's Bay it also made her an outsider in Nations’ legend to a story from execution of Thomas Scott Company, married to an Inuk her own community. Both she a Chinese “house girl”, this by the forces of Métis leader woman, Ernie Lyall offers an and her family have to learn book of creative non-fiction Louis Riel, it recounts how the unpretentious, eyewitness view to adjust to changes in each was extensively researched. In 1873 Cypress Hills massacre of of the peoples of the Canadian other upon her return. This the final story by the editor’s Assiniboine by American “wolf- Arctic and his perceptions of is complicated by changes to daughter, McKnight creates ers” led to a permanent police the culture and values of its their traditional Inuit lifestyle a visualization exercise. She force. The NWMP were appre- Inuit inhabitants living their as a result of northern develop- brings her daughter to Olympic ciated for bringing order to the traditional lifestyle at a time of ment. Jointly authored with her Village where she asks her to Prairies. Friendships developed change. Lyall writes as both an daughter-in-law and sensitively remember what it looked like between Superintendent James agent for and a victim of the illustrated, this book is high- before the Olympics, then Walsh and Chief Sitting Bull, changes in arctic society. At lighted with photographs of the imagine 50, 100, 1000 years and the chiefs of the Blackfoot the time of residential schools, era. It demonstrates the impact ago. By “seeing the city with Confederacy with trusted he describes the heartache of that residential schools had on fresh eyes”, McKnight hopes Commissioner James Macleod. parents whose children are sent the students, their families and these stories will be more than a Later the NWMP, having won away. (Lyall's own children were aboriginal communities. collection of facts for modern- the trust of the indiginous taken for five years). Yet Lyall Fatty Legs was nominated day Vancouver kids. Includes people, enforced Ottawa’s accepted a government job as for the BC Book Prizes, Sheila useful websites about both local Indian relocation program to an interpreter, advocating the A. Egoff Children’s Literature and regional history. make way for settlers and the benefits of this education. Prize. CPR.

Grades: K–12, english Grades: 4–8, social studies Grades: 7–12, law, social Grades: 9–12, english language arts, social studies language arts, social Index/Bibliography: No/No studies studies ©2011 240 pp. 5.5"x7.5" Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w photographs ©2010 234 pp. 8.75"x9.25" ©2011 112 pp. 6.25"x9" ©2011 240 pp. 6"x9" ISBN: 9781897142523 $12.95 PA b/w & colour photographs, maps, colour illustrations drawings b/w photographs eBook: 9781897142622 $9.95 ISBN: 9781554513611 $12.95 PA ISBN: 9780980930412 $45.00 HC ISBN: 9780887809453 $19.95 PA Brindle & Glass Publishing Ltd. eBook: 9780887809477 $16.95 Annick Press www.brindleandglass.com Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers www.annickpress.com www.s-a-d-publishers.ca Formac Publishing Company Ltd. www.formac.ca

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bear bones & Blue Marrow broken circle dancing on our feathers indian residential schools, turtle's back Louise Bernice Halfe a memoir Louise Bernice Halfe stories of nishnaabeg Halfe, through her poetry, Theodore Fontaine re-creation, resurgence In her poetry Halfe reflects on takes us on a spiritual journey, and a new emergence Fontaine attended residential her life growing up with her telling the often painful story Leanne Simpson parents and grandmother on of her people. She speaks of the schools in Manitoba from 1948– the reserve. She speaks frankly brutality of the missionaries, fur 1960. His memoir recounts his This is a hopeful, in-depth about the domestic violence and traders and government agents childhood experiences of abuse academic analysis of political substance abuse she witnessed during European colonization. at the school and his adult’s mobilizations and resurgences as a child as well as the stories She tells of the suffering of her analysis of how this affected of indigenous cultures. Readers of abuse in residential schools. relatives who were “cattled his life. Fontaine cherishes his will gain an appreciation of Yet, through all the sorrow and onto the reservation” and those pre-school years among the the struggles and challenges anger of her past, she finds joy who were abused in residential loving family who taught him of native communities and solace, especially through schools and by the Ministry of traditional values. Once he left revealed through Nishnaabeg her grandmother, a medicine Indian Affairs. Yet, in many his family and community, he celebrations and protests, woman. Halfe’s poems, of her poems she celebrates writes that his emotional growth conversations with elders and grounded in oral traditions, her rich cultural past and finds stopped. After graduation, creation stories. Simpson’s goal are rich in spiritualism, animal strength from Cree women, Fontaine struggled with drink- is to share stories of resistance imagery and metaphor. Halfe past and present. She says that ing and lived a nomadic life. and resurgence in order to incorporates Cree language into the grandmothers will provide He finally underwent therapy help future generations build her poems. powerful medicine “which will where he examined the impact on the emerging “Indigenous This collection won the 1996 heal us.” Halfe’s poems sing in residential schooling had on his Renaissance”. By honouring Milton Acorn Award. chant-like rhythms and provide life. Ultimately, Fontaine heals holistic “circles of healing” and Caution: Includes some vivid imagery of the Canadian his emotional scars and secures restorative justice intrinsic to coarse language, violence and prairies. some financial restitution. He aboriginal cultures, Simpson sexual abuse. Blue Marrow was nominated is a man proud of his journey, reinforces how “elders … for a Governor General’s Award his family and his 30-year career inspire us to envision alternative for Poetry in 1998. devoted to First Nations com- futures.” Includes extensive Caution: Includes references munities. Fontaine currently footnotes. to violence and abuse. chairs the Indigenous Leader- Simpson is a Michi Saagiig ship Development Institute. Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and Caution: Indian, Aboriginal activist. and First Nations are used interchangeably.

Grades: 11–12, english Grades: 11–12, english Grades: 10–12, english Grades: 12, social studies language arts language arts language arts, social Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes studies Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No ©2011 166 pp. 5.5"x8.5" Index/Bibliography: No/No ©1994 80 pp. 5"x8" ©2004 120 pp. 5"x8" ISBN: 9781894037501 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9781550500554 $12.95 PA ISBN: 9781550503043 $16.95 PA ©2010 192 pp. 5.5"x8.5" Arbeiter Ring Publishing b/w photographs Coteau Books Coteau Books www.arbeiterring.com www.coteaubooks.com www.coteaubooks.com ISBN: 9781926613666 $19.95 PA eBook: 9781926936062 $11.95 Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd. www.heritagehouse.ca

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dead white writer discovery the edward a feast for all on the floor passage curtis project seasons a modern picture story traditional native peoples' Drew Hayden Taylor Garry Thomas Morse cuisine Marie Clements & The main characters in this play This book of poems goes Rita Leistner Andrew George Jr. & are six First Nations stereotypes: beyond the bounds of what Robert Gairns Tonto (the Sidekick), Injun Joe one might expect from such This unique volume combines and Billy Jack (the Villain and a collection, as it details the the script for a play and a “This book is named after the the Hero), Old Lodgeskins (the history of BC’s coastal peoples. photographic documentary of Wet’suwet’en feast, denii ne’aas, Wise Elder), Pocahontas (the Parts of it examine the history parallel themes. Edward Curtis which means ‘people coming Submissive Native Woman), of the banning of the potlatch, was the controversial photog- together’. It is an appropriate and Kills Many Enemies (the the attempts to eradicate rapher who, in the early part title for a book that is not only Brave Warrior). They find aboriginal languages and the of the 20th century, docu- about delicious things to eat, themselves in an office that loss of precious artifacts to mented an exquisite but flawed but also about the ways of presumably belongs to the museums around the world. The record of North American a people…”. The comment white writer lying dead on the poems are light and airy ­­—filled First Nations peoples. The play from the book’s introduction floor. Aware that the writer has with white space as they tumble addresses both the achievement is an apt description of this cast them as stereotypes, they down the page— and offer a and fundamental problems of cookbook with recipes such as rewrite the screenplay so that fresh approach to examining Curtis’ work. To accompany the Smoked Salmon Wet’suwet’en they can live the lives of their historical material. Kwak’wala play a photographer followed Style, Moose Cutlets and Wild dreams. In Act 2 they reappear terms and script appear in some in Curtis’ footsteps to show Blueberry Cookies. The recipes as contemporary Native of the poems. There are several that the “vanishing race” Curtis are divided according to the characters who experience that colour photographs of art pieces photographed is alive and origin of the main ingredient: the ideal life is an illusion. and petroglyphs, as well as well in myriad ways. The play the waters, the earth, the land Hayden Taylor has written archival photographs. and photo-documentary also and the sky. There are also numerous plays, short stories, Some sections of the book consider issues First Nations suggested feast menus based on essays, columns and scripts. could serve as the script for and European Canadians still the seasons. His novel Motorcycles and dramatic readings or even struggle to make sense of. George was head chef at Sweetgrass was nominated in theatrical presentations. Clements won the Jack Web- the Four Host First Nations 2010 for the Governor General’s Caution: Includes some ster journalism award, a Jessie pavilion at the 2010 Winter Award for fiction. coarse language and a few award and was nominated for a Olympics. Gairns was advisor Caution: Use of the term references to drugs. Governor General’s Award. to the gold-medal Native Haute “Indian.” Caution: Includes some Cuisine team, 1996. coarse language.

Grades: 10–12, english Grades: 11–12, english Grades: 11–12, drama, english Grades: 8–12, career & language arts language arts language arts, social personal planning, home studies, visual arts economics Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/Yes ©2011 112 pp. 5.5"x8.5" ©2011 96 pp. 6"x9" Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/No ISBN: 9780889226630 $17.95 PA b/w & colour photographs, map ©2010 160 pp. 6.75"x9.75" ©2010 152 pp. 8"x9" colour photographs colour photographs Talon Books Ltd. ISBN: 9780889226609 $17.95 PA ISBN: 9780889226425 $24.95 PA ISBN: 9781551523682 $24.95 PA www.talonbooks.com Talon Books Ltd. www.talonbooks.com Talon Books Ltd. Arsenal Pulp Press www.talonbooks.com www.arsenalpulp.com

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fort chipewyan fur trade letters gabriel dumont giant's dream and the shaping of willie traill li chef michif in images and a healing journey through in words nitassinan of canadian 1864–1894 history, 1788–1920s K. Douglas Munro, ed. Darren R. Préfontaine Nikashant Antane we like to be free in this Michel (Giant) Andrew, an This book comprises the letters This book, published in country Innu, undertook a 400 km, that Willie Trail sent back to recognition of the 125th six-week trek in northeastern Patricia A. McCormack his family and friends during anniversary of the 1885 Resistance, is the largest Nitassinan (Labrador) to This is an extensive study of the his time at various postings collection of images related to raise awareness and funds for role Fort Chipewyan played in while working for the Hudson’s the life, career and times of the diabetes, which is endemic Canadian history. The northern Bay Company. The letters Métis leader, Gabriel Dumont. in the Innu communities. Hudson’s Bay Company Fort provide first-hand accounts The document, both visually Struggling with alcoholism, was the first place of contact of what day-to-day life was and with annotative text, his depression and suicide, Giant for many of the northern First like in the late 1800s on the story and that of the Métis. has a dream in which his Nations and European settlers. Canadian Frontier. It also Dumont’s life is chronicled deceased grandfather tells They lived peacefully together gives an interesting account in historical photographs and him to “get up and help your until the signing of Treaty of the interactions between illustrated historical images people.” It is at this point that No. 8, which extinguished the HBC traders and First Nations as found in the newspapers of Giant is inspired to turn his life First Nations claim on the area people. the times. Also included are around. Through the details to allow for more European The editor is the great chapters on material objects, of his arduous journey, we settlement. The treaty brought grandson of Willie Traill. places and events associated learn about Giant, his family, many changes, however, the Caution: The language used with Dumont and artistic his ancestors and the struggles First Nations were able to about First Nations people representations of him. The his people faced following become a “modern” society reflects the attitudes of the portrayal of Dumont in film, European colonization to without losing their traditional time in which the letters were documentaries, theatre, books, the present day. Antane says beliefs. Includes extensive notes. written. magazines, graphic novels, that the history of the Innu is McCormack is an associate blogs, newspapers, magazines the story of the clash of two professor in the Faculty of and antiqued books is also cultures, but he shows how Native Studies at the University documented and critiqued. This the Innu are trying to reclaim of Alberta. visual and textual cornucopia of their sovereignty. Giant’s story Caution: The terms “Indian” primary sources about Dumont illustrates the resilience of the and “half-breed” are used provides a fascinating insight Innu people and their desire to extensively throughout in their into his life and role as leader of regain their pride and identity. historical context. the Métis.

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grandpÈre grey owl Half-breed the indian a novel the mystery of archie commissioners belaney Maria Campbell Janet Romain agents of the state and Armand Garnet Ruffo Maria Campbell’s autobiogra- indian policy in canada's Romain’s novel intersects the phy about her marginalization prairie west, 1873–1932 This biography provides a lives of five generations of a as a Métis woman has become Brian Titley First Nation/Métis family in colourful portrait of the myste- a classic of Canadian aboriginal Northern BC. It highlights rious man and life in Canada’s literature. By speaking to the This book contains biographical the tragedies and heartbreaks wilderness during the early 20th larger issues of discrimina- essays on six Canadian Indian of the First Nations people century. Although Belaney’s tion, poverty and violence, she Commissioners: Provencher, over the last 100 years: loss of story is based on archival has given voice to the Métis, Laird, Dewdney, Reed, Forget land, language, culture, and records and reminiscences, it is illustrating their importance to and Graham. As such, the senseless deaths from disease, told largely through narrative Canadian history. She was born personalities, lives, character, accidents and alcohol. Anzel, poetry and fiction. Belaney grew near Prince Albert, Saskatch- ideas, ideals, goals, failures a self-sufficient widow, lives up a misfit in strict Edward- ewan, where her ancestors and accomplishments of on a small farm with her feisty ian England and later moved fought during the Riel Rebel- these agents of the Canadian 98-year old grandfather. As to Canada to become a guide. lion. After the death of her government vis-à-vis First they carry out the daily chores, Ruffo examines Belaney’s parents, she married an abusive Nations of the Canadian Grandpère tells Anzel his life transformation into Grey Owl, white alcoholic at 15. She then prairies are investigated. Their story, which she records for a masquerade in which he pre- drifted into drugs and prostitu- involvement in implementing her family. One day Angel, sented as a First Nations person tion. Campbell regained her policies and actions that the 13-year-old daughter of adopted by the Ojibway. He sense of self by drawing strength impacted several generations Anzel’s deceased son Ben focuses on the contradictions from the love of her cheechum of First Nations is narrated and arrives, abandoned by her drug- of Belaney’s character, a man (great-grandmother), through critiqued. The effect of years of addicted mother. With the love who neglected his own family, AA, and through the grow- ambitious plans, intransigent of Anzel and extended family, yet spoke passionately for the ing Native Rights movement. autocratic actions, imposition of Angel flourishes. The happy protection of wildlife. Through the writing process, settler values on First Nations, ending for everyone includes This book was a Saskatch- she transformed experiences of inconsistent and contradictory a description of Grandpère’s ewan Book Awards Finalist. shame and suffering into a story policies and practices, passing into the spirit world, Ruffo, a respected Ojibway of personal redemption. suppression and repression of when and how he wished. poet, teaches Native literature at Campbell is now a respected native cultural and religious Romain is Métis. Carleton University. elder. She has several honorary polices is is highlighted. Caution: Includes references Caution: Includes references degrees. to drugs, alcohol and rape. to alcohol abuse. Caution: References to drinking, drugs and sex.

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justice for the life and death the many voyages maskepetoon canada's of anna mae of arthur leader, warrior, peacemaker aboriginal aquash wellington clah peoples second edition a tsimshian man on the Hugh A. Dempsey pacific northwest coast Renée Dupuis Johanna Brand Dempsey presents a detailed Robert Chodos & Peggy Brock biography of Maskepetoon, Anna Mae Aquash grew up in Susan Joanis, trans. the legendary chief of the a poverty-ridden Micmac com- Based on the diary of Arthur Rocky Mountain Crees during munity in Nova Scotia. In her Wellington Clah, this book This award-winning title the turbulent mid-1800s. late teens she left Canada, even- provides an authentic and outlines the problems that Maskepetoon was born in 1807 tually moving to Boston where fascinating look at the very early First Nations people face in in the Saskatchewan River she became involved in commu- days of First Nations-colonial Canada including poor health area. He gained a reputation nity organization. Here she met interactions in BC. Born in care, inadequate housing and as a warrior and skilled other First Nations people com- 1831 of the Tsimshian nation, lack of basic necessities such as hunter. During the 1840s he mitted to improving their own Clah became an assistant and running water and sewage. The was influenced by Methodist and the lives of other aboriginal confident to William Duncan, book also makes suggestions missionaries and learned to read peoples. In 1973, a ten-week a Christian missionary. Clah on how to change Canada’s and write Cree syllabics. In time occupation of Wounded Knee kept a detailed journal over 50 relationship with First Nations, he became a strong proponent in South Dakota, demanded years, recording the rapid and including an overhaul of the of peace. Dempsey draws on 25 that the government deal with profound changes leading to the Indian Act and changes to the years of research putting this aboriginal issues. This protest birth of a province. What makes land claims settlement process. chief in his historical context became a symbol for North this account so important Dupuis won the 2002 Gov- and showing that great Native American Indian resistance. and unique is that the events ernor General's Literary Award leaders enriched the history of After the occupation, Aquash are told from a First Nations for Nonfiction in French. She the Canadian West. Dempsey became active in the American point of view. This volume was a member of the Indian recounts intertribal relations, Indian Movement (AIM), a includes a chronology, notes Claims Commission and of the Native relationships with the civil rights group under FBI and two appendices —Clah’s Canadian Human Rights Act fur traders, missionaries and surveillance. In February 1976, Trade Records for 24 and 25 Review Panel. early settlers, and aboriginal life Aquash’s body was found at the December, 1865 and Key People Caution: The term “Indian” on the woodlands and prairies bottom of a cliff, with a bullet in in Clah’s World. is used throughout. during a time when the buffalo her head. Originally published herds were diminishing in great in 1978, this new edition calls numbers. for renewed efforts to identify her killers.

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midnight news oka old lives sweatlodge postcards from the four a political crisis and its in the chilcotin directions legacy backcountry Peggy Brock Drew Hayden Taylor Harry Swain John Schreiber In this gritty novel, a group of young First Nations adults This collection of short Harry Swain served as Deputy This personal account describes gather together with an elder reflective essays is humorous Minister of Indian and North- Schreiber’s journeys —alone for a sweatlodge, an activity that and glib, insightful and thought ern Affairs from 1987–1992. or accompanied— through they hope will help them to deal provoking. Using the traditional He was centrally involved for areas of the Western Chilcotin with some of the problems in First Nations teachings of the the Federal Government in region. Schreiber encounters their lives. The narrative unfolds four directions as an organizing many aspects of the Oka Crisis. significant pioneers and through flashback stories told principle, these varied pieces This book is an insightful and settlers of the region, listens by the participants in which consider encounters with illuminating insider’s perspec- to their life-stories and the they reveal past traumas. Often academia, the Olympics, the tive on the events of the late area’s mythic stories and then violent and traumatic, these Oka crisis, making money spring and summer of 1990. passes on knowledge leading are realistic depictions of the from First Nations practices, The historical background to to wisdom from such. Aspects experiences many on and settlements for the survivors of the crisis —stretching back 170 of the Chilcotin’s flora and off-reserve raised First Nations residential schools, the younger years, the events of the crisis it- fauna, sights and sounds, and people encounter. The novel generation and the postmodern self, extenuated and immediate geographic landscapes are reflects on the lingering effects narratives of traditional First causes, and attempts at conflict described. References to ancient of the reserve and residential Nation stories among many resolution are detailed. Swain kekuli pithouses, the Chilcotin school system on Canada’s other topics. The author’s take is documents the issues between War and the legendary Chiwid aboriginal people. often original in his view from peoples, on both sides, who ­—wandering woman of the Caution: Includes swearing, his beloved Curve Lake home. have several agendas as well as Chilcotin— are included. sexual content, violence and This book won a Chalmers changing demands and chang- First Nations myths such as graphic descriptions of abuse. Play Awards: Theatre for ing representatives make this a those centred on Eniyud and Young Audiences and a Native fascinating read and a helpful Ts’ylos, Raven and Old Coyote, Playwrights Award among assessment. The last chapters transformers and tricksters others. provide a compelling analysis of are briefly summarized in a the crisis’ aftermath. chapter that emphasizes the role This book was nominated for and importance of myths in a Donner Prize. informing and transforming us as well as in telling and writing us.

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old square toes one step over the one story, one pauline and his lady line song a biography of pauline johnson the life of james and toward a history of Richard Wagamese amelia douglas women in the north Betty Keller american wests In this collection of short John Adams Originally published in 1981, Elizabeth Jameson & stories, Wagamese shares the this reissued biography in the Sir James Douglas was a fur- Sheila McManus, eds. stories of his life as well as trader, governor of Vancouver information and musings on Goodread Biography/Canadian Island and later, the Colony This title is the second collection First Nations history and related Lives series is intended as a of British Columbia. This was of essays to come from the 2002 issues. Wagamese emphasizes more truthful and realistic deemed to be remarkable Unsettled Pasts conference at the importance of listening account of Canadian poet and given his West Indian ancestry the University of Calgary. The to the stories of others if you recitalist, Pauline Johnson. The and his marriage to Amelia authors are feminist scholars want to understand them and author considers that many Connolly, who was part-Cree. from both sides of the 49th sharing your stories if you want existing biographies present Douglas arrived in Canada parallel who have identified to be understood. The book romanticized versions of her in 1819 to work in the fur transnational issues that are is divided into four sections life. This very detailed account trade. Amelia Connolly grew historically, geographically, that correspond to the four of Johnson’s life includes her up in trading posts. In 1828 racially and, of course, directions of the medicine family and cultural background, they were married in Fort St. gender-based. The women wheel and which have four which provides a context for James. Their success was hard- examined were married and overarching themes: East her more well-known “Indian earned, enduring isolation, single, white, black, Mexican –humility, South –trust, West Princess” performing image. perilous journeys, epidemics and aboriginal. They were –introspection and North Keller’s other books and the deaths of seven of wives, homesteaders, tanners, –wisdom. include A Thoroughly Wicked their children. Adams enriches prostitutes and translators. They Wagamese’s also wrote One Woman, Black Wolf: The Douglas’ historical trajectory had no education and were Native Life and Keeper’n Me. Life of Ernest Thompson with examples of his moral scholars. They stretched across The author’s awards include Seton and On the Shady Side: character and his attitudes all women’s experiences in the the National Newspaper Award Vancouver 1886-1914. She is towards aboriginal peoples. North American West. These and the Native American Press the recipient of The Queen’s Amelia’s history provides essays are accessible, interesting Association Award. Golden Jubilee Medal and The insight into Cree customs and and in-depth and they add to Caution: Includes discussion Commemorative Medal for the lives of female colonists. a growing body of work that of drug use, alcoholism and the 125th Anniversary of the Caution: Contains some looks at history from a woman’s child abuse. Confederation of Canada. racist / stereotypical depictions perspective. of aboriginal people in historical context.

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people of the red serge and the sasquatch at stories of the lakes polar bear pants home road allowance stories of our van tat the biography of harry traditional protocols & people gwich'in elders / stallworthy, RCMP modern storytelling the revised edition googwandak nakhwach'ÀnjÒo van tat William Barr Eden Robinson Maria Campbell, trans. gwich'in This biography of RCMP This book comprises novelist Sherry Farrell Racette Vuntut Gwitchin First member Harry Stallworthy Eden Robinson’s address to This revised edition of the Nations & Shirleen Smith presents a fascinating account the 2010 Henry Kreisel Lecture, 1995 original includes two new of his life and many years of hosted by the Canadian People of the Lakes is a compila- stories and new illustrations. service in various locations of Literature Centre in Edmonton. tion of the oral history of the The lilting text of these Métis Canada. The primary focus is on The narrative is structured by Van Tat Gwich’in Elders of folk tales reflects the oral his 20 years in the North in both Nusa, the traditional way of Northern Yukon. It includes tradition from which they were the Yukon and on Ellesmere teaching First Nations history the myths and legends of the collected. The provenance of Island. In 1915 he found via storytelling. Most of the area, as well as oral histories of the stories is presented. Maria himself in the Yukon where recollections are set on BC’s three generations of the Vuntut Campbell, highly acclaimed the North’s peoples and places north coast near Kitamaat Gwitchin First Nation, includ- Métis Elder, collected the tales became his love and obsession. Village, the primary residence of ing elders who remember what with permission and presents Harrowing adventures, harsh the Haisla people. Some of the life was like before contact with them to enhance understanding conditions, courageous exploits, events that Robinson recounts Europeans before the 1840s, of the Métis worldview. and compelling assignments are a potlatch, how her parents and elders who describe how Complex and humorous, these are included in this intriguing met, touring Graceland with European settlement affected accounts evoke more recent account. Among many exploits her mother, fishing for oolichan their traditional lifestyle. Lastly, time and place than creation recounted are leadership in the with her father in search for the younger members of the Vuntut narratives, and challenge search for the missing research Sasquatch. Includes endnotes. Gwitchin First Nation record colonial preconceptions. team of geologist Kruger, Robinson is the author of their oral histories. Includes a Racette’s illustrations involvement in the Ellesmere Traplines, Monkey Beach and glossary of Gwich’in words and beautifully complement the Land Expedition (led by Eddie Blood Sports. Traplines won the extensive notes. text. A CD contains two of the Shackleton), role in guarding New York Times Notable Book This book has won numerous stories read aloud and examples Churchill and Roosevelt at the of the Year. Monkey Beach was awards including the 2011 of traditional music. WWII Quebec Conference nominated for the Giller Prize Canadian Historical Association Caution: Includes coarse of 1944, and his receiving the (2000). Clio Prize (The North). language, adult situations and Order of Canada. Caution: Indian, aboriginal sexual references. and First Nations are used interchangeably in the text.

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a story as sharp tecumseh unsettling the we are all treaty as a knife diplomat and warrior in settler within people the war of 1812 the classical haida indian residential schools, prairie essays mythtellers and their Irene Ternier Gordon truth telling, and world reconciliation in canada Roger Epp Much has been written about Robert Bringhurst Paulette Regan Epp engages in poetic, narrative Tecumseh, the heroic Shawnee and scholarly writing in 10 Haida poet/storytellers, Ghandl warrior, however, many This scholarly book from the essays devoted to rural life. In and Skaay, took stories known facts about his life have been director of Research for the this collection, he claims that to many language groups in fictionalized or exaggerated. Truth and Reconciliation settlers and aboriginal people the region and made them into Even though there are gaps in Commission of Canada calls share a common history of singular masterpieces. This the research, Gordon attempts on all Canadians to consider connection to the land and second edition of poet and to provide an accurate and how their colonial legacy societal marginalization. The cultural historian Bringhurst’s detailed account of Tecumseh’s perpetuates itself on a daily first three essays are personal controversial masterwork makes life. Focusing on Tecumseh’s basis. “Canadian citizens … remembrances of his childhood use of access to the original charismatic leadership and are ultimately responsible in Saskatchewan and his transcriber, John Swanton’s, political skills, she describes for the past and present agrarian roots. The second set letters; a recent Haida his success in building a Native actions of our government.” discusses the political history of dictionary; and a grammar confederacy with members The federal government’s rural Alberta, which included of Haida. It is persuasively from 32 different tribes or 2008 apology to victims of the establishment of farmers’ argued that we are not all nations spread across nearly 1.3 residential schools was not an cooperatives. The final essays immigrants but are all natives million square miles, and his end, but an opportunity for point to the pressures facing and that these stories/poems ability to work with the British Canadians to rethink the past farm livelihoods, such as are an important legacy for all and Americans to preserve and implications for future industrialized food production peoples. The author shows how Native lands and culture. She relationships with Canada's and the disappearance of the complexities of language, portrays Tecumseh as a man of indigenous peopleThis book agricultural lands. In the rhythm, repetition and suites of integrity and humanity. Gordon points to a transformation concluding essay, Epp advocates stories are particular to the two describes Tecumseh’s role in the born out of reflection by all saving the rural lifestyle by featured storytellers and should War of 1812 where, along with parties, rather than indigenous multiple avenues. be regarded as contributions to the British and General Isaac people being held responsible Epp is the dean of the world literature. Brock, he fought many battles. for coming to terms with University of Alberta's This first of three volumes Caution: The use of what happened to them. Augustana Campus in Camrose was nominated for a Governor “Indians” appears in historical Transformation is based on the where he is also professor of General’s Award and the Griffin context. critical hope of an authentic, Political Studies. Poetry Prize. ethical and just reconciliation.

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Aboriginal Cultures in Alberta ...... 6 Unsettling the Settler Within 17 Anguti’s Amulet ...... 4 Vancouver Kids ...... 8 Arctic Man, An 8 We Are All Treaty People ...... 17 Bear Bones & Feathers ...... 9 Wild Ride, The 8 Blue Marrow 9 Broken Circle ...... 9 Broken Trail ...... 6 Christmas la pouchinn 4 Dancing on Our Turtle's Back ...... 9 Dead White Writer on the Floor ...... 10 Discovery Passage ...... 10 Edward Curtis Project, The ...... 10 Feast for All Seasons, A ...... 10 Fight for Justice ...... 4 Fort Chipewyan and the shaping of Canadian History, 1788–1920s ...... 11 Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill ...... 11 Gabriel Dumont ...... 11 Giant's Dream ...... 11 Grandpère 12 Grey Owl 12 Half-Breed 12 How Fox Saved the People ...... 6 Indian Commissioners, The ...... 12 Inuit Modern ...... 6 I See Me 4 Jordin Tootoo ...... 7 Justice for Canada's Aboriginal Peoples ...... 13 Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash, The 13 Little Voice 7 Man-to-Man ...... 5 Many Voyages of arthur Wellington Clah, The 13 Maskepetoon ...... 13 Melanie Bluelake’s Dream 5 Midnight Sweatlodge ...... 14 Muin and the Seven Bird Hunters ...... 5 News 14 Oka ...... 14 Old Lives 14 Old Square Toes and His Lady ...... 15 One Step Over the Line ...... 15 One Story, One Song ...... 15 Pauline 15 People of the Lakes ...... 16 Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants ...... 16 Relatives with Roots 7 Sasquatch at Home, The ...... 16 Sea Wolves, The ...... 7 Stories of the Road Allowance People ...... 16 Storm Child ...... 5 Story as Sharp as a Knife, A 17 Stranger at Home, A 8 Tecumseh ...... 17

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