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An Aboriginal Carol Blackships and Borrowed Black Byron Through the David Bouchard Thanadelthur A Labrador Fantasy Seasons Moses Beaver Ellen Bryan Obed Red Deer Press Young Heroes of North America A Dene-English Story Book Vol.1 Jan Mogensen Breakwater Books The Children of La Loche This picture book shares an origi- Rick Book and Friends nal version of The Huron Carol Fifth House Publishers based on Jesous Ahatonhia, origi- Amanda Dow, Dennis Fast This rhyming legend is a classic nally written by Jean de Brebeuf. & Francis Lépine ballad from Labrador. It tells the It brings together the interpreta- Heartland Publications tale of Borrowed Black, a fantasy This book is collaboration between tions of the carol by the three being who lives on the coast of the students of Ducharme Labrador. Borrowed Black Elementary School in La Loche, Canadian Aboriginal groups: These two books, both Volume 1, First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The borrows everything to create him- Sask at chewan, their teachers, local are well-researched, historical self and his home from the local advisers and elders. It reflects the song celebrates the birth of the . accounts They are identical in environment. He borrows so much life of the Dene through the year. Aboriginal Jesus, Deganawideh content except that the second the Peacemaker, first born in of everything that he even decides The story is told by Grandfather includes an audio CD of the sec- to take the wind from the air and Jonas to Byron and his classmates. Bethlehem then re-born in the Thanadelthur ond story, . the moon from the sky. Regrettably Each double page has a full-page Canadian North, sent by God to Blackships is the story of Iroquois he breaks the moon and plunges illustration by one of the students, bring peace and love to the Abo- chief Donnacona’s two sons who riginal people long before contact the land of Labrador into darkness. text in English and the Dene trans- are taken to France by Jacques Fortunately, a group of courageous lation. The story begins with the with White Europeans. The text is Cartier in 1534. Thanadelthur is the in both English and Inuktitut. An sailors take back the wind and the fall camp, progresses through to story of a young Dene girl who in moon and show how bravery can winter with ski-doo, toboggan and accom pa nying CD includes read- 1716 negotiates a peace treaty ings of the poem and the singing overcome greediness. dog use, followed by spring when between two hostile Aboriginal Borrowed Black has been trans- they go to bush camp where, of the Aboriginal Carol in both nations for the Hudson’s Bay Inuktitut and English by lated into seven languages. It is a among other things, they tan hides Company. These are historically Canadian Children’s Book Centre, kept over from winter. The Dene Canadian singer/songwriter documented tales about real Susan Aglukark. Our Choice title. Obed published leave summer camp in July to go to young people who helped shape Blackberry Land and Crowberry a gathering with other people. The Bouchard is an award-winning the history of Canada and North author. Sky, books that mix science, natu- book provides detailed America. ral and cultural history for young background information. children. This book is a favored selection SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-7 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-7, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Caution: The illustrations may by the Canadian Children’s Book TEACHER RESOURCE frighten younger children. Centre. LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-4 2008 32 pp. 8.75”x11” Index/Bibliography: No/Yes OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH colour illustrations 2001 108 pp. 6.75”x9.25” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES ISBN: 9780889954069 $24.95 HC colour photographs & illustrations, Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No line drawings, maps reddeerpress.com 1988 32 pp. 8.75”x12.25” 1990 42 pp. 8.75”x7.75” ISBN: 9781896150123 $26.95 HC colour illustrations colour illustrations with CD / 9781896150130 $12.95 HC ISBN: 9780920911143 $19.95 HC ISBN: 9781895618334 $10.95 PA hrtlandbooks.com breakwaterbooks.com fifthhousepublishers.ca

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Ch’askin Christmas at The Delta Hidden Buffalo A Legend of the Sechelt People Wapos Bay Is My Home Rudy Wiebe Michael Lonechild Donna Joe Jordan Wheeler & Tom McLeod & Red Deer Press Jamie Jeffries Dennis Jackson Mindy Willett Nightwood Editions Coteau Books Tessa Macintosh This story is based around a Cree Fifth House Publishers legend about the origin of the buf- This is a retelling of the legend of This novel follows Talon, T-Bear falo. Sky Running’s family is Ch’askin the thunderbird from the and Raven as they spend Christ- This book is the first in a series, The starving because the buffalo they stories of the Sechelt people of BC. mas at their Moshom’s Land Is Our Storybook, that share hunt for food have not shown up Ch’askin comes to the Sechelt (Grandfather’s) cabin. The whole the culture and history of each of this year. One day Sky Running’s people in times of trouble to give family is supposed to be coming to the ten Aboriginal language groups grandmother tells the story of how them aid. The story includes five stay for Christmas, but, due to a in the Northwest Territories. Tom, the buffalo came to the Cree and different vignettes where Ch’askin large forest fire, Moshom and the an eleven-year-old boy of Gwich’in Sky Running finds a white buffalo comes to the Sechelt’s aid to help kids might not be able to hunt Inuvialuit heritage, lives in Aklavik, stone; that night, he dreams of them grow and prosper as a enough meat to feed everyone. the “Muskrat Capital of Canada”. where the buffalo are. When he nation. Told in a fairly simple Moshom is also getting older and The delta of the title refers to the wakes, he tells the family of his style, these stories are a good is ill, and Talon, T-Bear and Raven Mackenzie River delta. Tom loves dream and they decide to make introduction to the Sechelt’s thun- are worried that he’ll make his to hunt, fish and go out on the land. the journey to find the buffalo. Lit- derbird stories. At the end of the health worse trying to get the food. The book shows the varied life that tle details included in the story book is a brief explanation of the They decide that they’ll go out Tom leads from attending a mod- -such as the digging of turnips and history of the Sechelt. hunting on their own, but there’s a ern school to shooting a caribou. catching of badger for dinner Joe is also the author of Salmon big winter storm coming. This Included is a detailed glossary. when no buffalo can be found- Boy: a Legend of the Sechelt People. story is an engaging portrayal of Sidebars include bannock recipes help to show the lifestyle of the family relationships and the and muskrat push-ups. The colour Cree. The beautiful paintings SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-7 importance of life on the land for photographs show striking scenery depict the live of the Cree people OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH this extended Cree family. and a loving family. and bring this story to life. LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES This book is part of the From Co-author Willett, a teacher, has This book won the Alberta Chil- Index/Bibliography: No/No Many Peoples series and is also authored the other books in this dren’s Book of the Year Award, 2003 24 pp. 9”x12” connected to the Wapos Bay TV series. The Amelia Frances Howard Gib- b/w illustrations series. Caution: There are images of bon Notable Book Award, and has ISBN: 9780889711808 $7.95 PA Tom using guns and holding a Canadian Children’s Book Centre SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 duck carcass over a fire. Our Choice citation. nightwoodeditions.com OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 2005 152 pp. 5.25”x7.5” LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES, SOCIAL STUDIES ISBN: 9781550503241 $8.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No 2003 32 pp. 8.5”x10.5” coteaubooks.com Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 32 pp. 8.25”x8.25” colour paintings colour & b/w photographs, map ISBN: 9780889953345 $11.95 PA ISBN: 9781897252321 $16.95 HC reddeerpress.com fifthhousepublishers.ca

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How Dog Became A The Inuit Jason and Keepers of the Friend Thought of It the Sea Otter Animals Paul O’Neill Amazing Arctic Innovations Joe Barber-Starkey Native Stories and Wildlife Cynthia Colosimo Paul Montpellier Alootook Ipellie & Activities for Children Flanker Press Harbour Publishing David MacDonald Caduto & Bruchac Annick Press Told through beautifully descrip- In this story originally published Fadden & Lightfeather tive language and gorgeous in 1989 and reprinted in 2004, Fifth House Publishers illustrations, this story, set in Alootook Ipellie explains how the Jason, a contemporary Nootka Labrador in ancient times, ability to adapt and make innova- (Nuu-Chah-Nulth) boy living on Part of the Keeper series, this book explains how dogs came to live tions enabled the Inuit to survive the west coast of Vancouver contains twenty-four legends with people as companions. in the extreme conditions of the Island, leaves the village to jig for relating to animal ecology and Brother and Sister, while wander- North American Arctic. All the cod from his dugout canoe. Jason Aboriginal traditions. The legends ing the tundra berry picking, innovations described predate spots an animal he has never seen have been selected from across ignore their parents’ warnings contact with Europeans. and Grandfather confirms that it is the continent, from the Hopi to about the dangers of traveling too Beginning with a timeline, Ipellie an endangered sea otter. One day the Inuit, and from the Haida to far from camp. They end up being uses two-page spreads to show Jason falls overboard and his the Seneca. Stories of whales, spi- strung up by their hoods at the top and write about everything from canoe drifts away. Jason is ders, eagles, fish, coyotes, and of a tree by Old Hag of the Wilder- dog sleds to parkas, harpoons to panicked, until he discovers the many more lead to activities ness. Passing animals refuse their snow goggles. Along the way, he sea otter has the boat’s rope related to migration, animal com- requests to be rescued. Finally comments on food, medicine, looped around its paw. In this munication, conservation and Dog passes by, rationalizes the games, hunting and death story we learn about how the sea survival. Activities are provided need to hunt for survival, and customs, finishing up with a look otter was overhunted in the past. for each story. Suggestions for agrees to say the magic words that at modern Inuit life. The book is We also learn about their habits uses, background information and release the children. As a reward, well illustrated with colour and and that of other Northwest coast black and white illustrations are Dog is invited to live among black and white photographs. marine life, as well as interesting provided for each story. Also humans. facts regarding Aboriginal life, included is a glossary and pronun- O’Neill, an internationally SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 both contemporary and historical. ciation index. An index of the acclaimed author and poet, is a OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES, Barber-Starkey also wrote activities by subject make the recipient of the Order of Canada. SOCIAL STUDIES Jason’s New Dugout Canoe work easily accessible. A teacher’s Colosimo lives and works with Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes included in this catalogue. guide is available but not communities in Labrador. 2007 32 pp. 8.5”x11” reviewed. b/w & colour photographs SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-5 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-5 ISBN: 9781554510887 $19.95 HC / OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-7, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 9781554510870 $9.95 PA LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES, TEACHER RESOURCE LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES, annickpress.com SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 29 pp. 9”x12” 1989 32 pp. 7.5”x10.25” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No colour illustrations colour illustrations 1991 266 pp. 9”x12” ISBN: 9781894463935 $11.95 PA ISBN: 9781550171624 $12.95 PA b/w photographs & illustrations, map ISBN: 9781894004701 $27.95 PA flankerpress.com harbourpublishing.com fifthhousepublishers.ca

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Keepers of the Keepers of Life The Legend of the Life in a Earth Discovering Plants through Caribou Boy Longhouse Village Native Stories and Native Stories and Earth Activities for Children John Blondin Bobbie Kalman Environmental Activities for (as told by George Crabtree Publishing Children Caduto & Bruchac Blondin) Fadden & Fadden Ray McSwain Life in a Longhouse Village is Caduto & Bruchac Fifth House Publishers Mary Rose Sundberg, another book in the series about Aboriginal people by Kalman. It Fadden & Wood trans. Fifth House Publishing begins by identifying the five Iro- This latest book of the Keeper Theytus Books quois-speaking nations who lived series concentrates on the Aborig- in longhouses: the Mohawk, Another in the Keeper series, Keep- inal people’s relationship with This is one of a series based on Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and ers of the Earth contains legends and the importance of plant life in generations of stories told in the Seneca and the lands in eastern concerning the physical environ- Aboriginal traditions. The stories oral tradition of the Dene people. Canada and the United States ment and Native American come from eighteen different A Dene couple awake to find their where they lived. Next a traditions. Topics range from Cre- North American Tribes, and pro- son has disappeared. They search longhouse village is described as ation stories to tales of plants and mote environmental and ethical for him and find his discarded to how the houses are built; the animals, from the four elements to responsibility and respect for all clothing and footprints alongside sleeping, eating and storage the seasons. A number of environ- living things. Story topics include the hoof prints of caribou. They arrangements; and who lived mental hands-on questions, such information on plant groups, and follow the prints and find their son there. Following chapters include as stewardship, conservation, the explanations of biological who is changing into a caribou. methods of food and clothing nutrient cycle, etc., are provided. processes to ecological concerns The son tells his family he was preparation, children’s lives, Suggestions for uses, charts, graphs that face our world. Detailed once a caribou leader and prom- beliefs and ceremonies. and black and white illustrations drawings complement the stories. ises them that he will provide for Kalman is a prolific author of are provided for each story. Also This book is full of mythical tales them by sending them caribou. nonfiction books for children. She included is a glossary and pronun- for teachers to read to their The text is written in both English writes with particular curriculum ciation index. An index of the students and contains many ideas and Dene’s Dogrib language. needs in mind. She and her team activities by subject make the work for classroom use. Includes an A CD-ROM, on which the story is of writers research each topic easily accessible. A teacher’s guide extensive glossary and pronuncia- told in both the Weledeh dialect of thoroughly and have covered a is available but not reviewed. tion key, and useful section on the Dogrib language and English, wide variety of topics. Tribal Nation Descriptions. and an orthography and pronun- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-7, ciation chart of the Dogrib SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 TEACHER RESOURCE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-7, language, is included. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES, TEACHER RESOURCE STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-7 SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2001 32 pp. 8.25”x10.75” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 1988 212 pp. 8.5”x10.75” Index/Bibliography: No/No colour illustrations b/w photographs & illustrations, map 2007 266 pp. 8.5”x10.75” Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9780778703709 $25.95 HC / ISBN: 9781894004381 $27.95 PA b/w illustrations, map 2007 40 pp. 8”x10” 9780778704621 $10.95 PA ISBN: 9781897252192 $27.95 PA colour illustrations fifthhousepublishers.ca crabtreebooks.com fifthhousepublishers.ca ISBN: 9781894778480 $24.95 HC theytusbooks.ca

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Life in a Life in an Life in the Far North Loon Rock/ Plains Camp Anishinabe Camp Bobbie Kalman & Pkwimu Wkuntem Rebecca Sjonger Bobbie Kalman Niki Walker Crabtree Publishing Maxine Trottier Crabtree Publishing Crabtree Publishing Dozay Christmas This copiously illustrated non-fic- Cape Breton University Another book in a series called the This book is one in the series tion book in the series Native Press Native Nations of North America. Native Nations of North America. Nations of North America looks at Each two-page chapter describes Anishinabe means “the people” the lives of the Inuit and Inupiat of This is the simple story, told in a specific aspect of the lives of the who are also known as the Ojibway the far north of Canada and repetitive prose of a young Mi’k- Plains tribes, such as setting up and Chippewa. They lived in the Alaska. It mainly concentrates on maq boy on his dream quest. He camp, hunting the buffalo, and the Great Lakes region for thousands life prior to contact with uses red stones to paint the differing roles for men, women of years. The book describes how Europeans, with a short section on picture of a loon high up on a rock and children. The information is the Anishinabe interacted with modern life. A wide variety of top- face. The picture survives long very general, as the Plains tribes their environment; traveling as ics such as housing, food, family after the boy is gone. Each section covered a huge area. Illustrations each season provided different life and children’s lives are of text is translated into Mi’kmaq are colourful and detailed, but plants and animals. They gathered covered. It includes a glossary. on the same page. The story is also general as most do not name the wild rice that grew on the lakes Other titles in the series are illustrated in spare black, white the tribe represented. in the early autumn and collected included in this catalogue. and red paintings. Kalman is the author of over 200 sap from maple trees in the late Trottier has won many awards non-fiction children’s books. She winter. Extended families lived in SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 for her picture books. This book is works with a team of writers and wigwams, which they carried with OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL staple bound. researchers and writes specifically them when they traveled. Also STUDIES for curriculum needs. She has also included is information on SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-4 been both an elementary and high Anishinabe beliefs, workloads, Index/Bibliography: Yes/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH school teacher, and an educa - camp life, children’s education, 2004 32 pp. 8.25”x10.75” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES tional consultant with several roles and responsibilities, and how colour illustrations, photographs, publishing companies. contact with the Europeans maps, diagrams Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9780778703778 $25.95 HC / created conflicts and forced 1996 22 pp. 8”x8” 9780778704690 $10.95 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 change. The material is presented colour illustrations OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL in a well-organized and interesting crabtreebooks.com ISBN: 9780920336847 $11.95 PA STUDIES way, with key words in bold. A cbupress.ca glossary is included. Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2001 32 pp. 8.25”x10.75” colour illustrations SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 ISBN: 9780778704614 $10.95 PA OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL STUDIES crabtreebooks.com Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2003 32 pp. 8.25”x10.75” colour illustrations ISBN: 9780778704652 $25.95 HC/ 9780778704652 $10.95 PA

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Louis Riel The Moccasins Morning on the Lake Mystery at Terry Barber Earl Einarson Jan Bourdeau Waboose Shildii Rock Grass Roots Press Julie Flett Karen Reczuch Theytus Books Kids Can Press Robert Feagan This book begins with Riel’s hang- The Dundurn Group ing and asks whether he was a This short and uplifting story tells An Ojibway boy and his Mishomis hero or traitor. We learn that Riel of an Aboriginal boy whose foster (grandfather) experience the This novel is based on events that was born in Red River in 1844, a family raises him to be proud of northern wilderness together. At happened to the author himself French Métis, the oldest of eleven his heritage. They give him a pair dawn, Mishomis and his Noshen when he and his family lived in children. He moved to Montreal at of moccasins that smell of camp- (grandson) set out in a birchbark Fort McPherson and Inuvik, NWT. thirteen to study to be the first fire and make the boy feel “warm canoe to the centre of a lake where It incorporates the lifestyles and Métis priest. Riel’s plans changed and loved”. Eventually he grows they encounter a family of loons. stories of the people of the when the Canadian government out of the moccasins and his foster At noon, the two mocassin-clad Mackenzie Delta into an intrigu- purchased Rupert’s Land from the family puts them in a box. When explorers climb a rock ridge where ing mystery. Set in the 1950s in a Hudson’s Bay Company and the the boy has a child of his own, the an eagle sweeps down, leaving small northern town of mostly Métis found themselves with no box is returned to him and the behind a feather—the sign of hon- Aboriginal people, young Robin legal title to their land. Riel was smell reminds him of the love he our and wisdom. Nighttime finds Harris, the son of the local RCMP asked to represent the Métis in received and how proud he is to be the two in the forest facing a pack officer, starts to put together sev- talks with the government. In 1885, Aboriginal. This is a powerful story of timber wolves. Mishomis is eral clues and events to solve a Riel’s demands to the government with a positive message. serene and wise. Under his guid- mystery and a murder that take were again rejected. The Métis This title was shortlist for the ance, Noshen is acquiring these place in their small community. rebelled and lost. Riel was tried by Christie Harris Illustrated same traits. Robin is aided by his friends a jury of English Protestants and Children’s Literature Prize, BC This book has won several Wayne and Tim, who have their found guilty. Includes a glossary. Book Prizes in 2005. It is also a awards including the 1999 Parents’ own skills and ideas to help with This book is part of the high Canadian Children’s Book Centre Guide to Children’s Award. the investigation. Since Robin is interest, low vocabulary series, Choice. Einarson is a member of Waboose is an Nishnawbe known for his overactive imagina- Grass Roots Biographies, about the Ktunaza First Nations, BC. Ojibway. Her other books include tion, his father and other adults activists. Julie Flett is Cree/Métis from Sky Sisters, listed in this catalogue. are not so quick to believe his the- Caution: The term “Indian” is Manitoba. She also illustrated Zoe Reczuch’s previous books include ories until it is almost too late. used in the story. and the Fawn. Just Like New, winner of the 1996 Feagan has written one other Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon children’s novel, Napachee, which SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-4 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-2 Award. is also included in this catalogue. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-6 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-7 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES, LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 2006 48 pp. 7”x8.5” 2008 16 pp. 8”x6” SOCIAL STUDIES b/w photographs, maps, line colour illustrations Index/Bibliography: No/No drawings, reproductions of original ISBN: 9781894778145 $10.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 168 pp. 5.25”x8.25” documents 1997 32 pp. 10”x9” ISBN: 9781550026689 $11.99 PA theytusbooks.ca ISBN: 9781894593458 $12.95 PA colour illustrations dundurn.com literaryservices.com ISBN: 9781550745887 $5.95 PA kidscanpress.com

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Napachee The Native Stories Niwechihaw/I Help Pomiuk Robert Feagan from Keepers of Life Caitlin Dale Nicholson & Prince of the North The Dundurn Group Leona Morin-Neilson Alice Walsh Michael J. Caduto Groundwood Books Jerry Whitehead In this young adult novel first pub- & Joseph Bruchac The Dundurn Group lished in 1999, Napachee, an John Kahionhes Fadden & This is the simple story, told in Inuktitut boy living in remote David Kanietakeron Fadden Cree and English, of a young boy’s Sachs Harbour, is tired of hunting Fifth House Publishing day with his grandmother or This historical adventure story and decides he would prefer to kokhom as they go to pick describes the experiences of an live in a city. When men from the Inuit family as they are uprooted This title in the Keepers series con- rosehips. He follows along copy- Edmonton Zoo capture a local ing what she does until it is time from their village in Labrador to cub, Napachee becomes a stow- tains eighteen legends unifying become part of a “living culture” plant ecology to Native American for her to rest and he is ready to away in the captured cub’s cage. play. The story is illustrated with in the 1893 World’s Fair exposition Near Edmonton, the transporting traditions. Stories such as those in Chicago. The story is told by that celebrate and provide thanks- acrylic on canvas paintings and truck goes off the road, spilling contains a recipe for rosehip tea at Pomiuk, who charms the crowds Napachee and the cub into the giving, or those that ask why some at the fair with his use of a dog sled trees are always green, or about a the end. woods. Napachee is caught and Caution: The boy rides in the whip. Pomiuk and his family try to taken to Edmonton where the woman who lives in the earth, lead adjust to their new experiences, to discussions of stewardship, car with no seat belt and uses a zookeeper’s rebellious daughter, slingshot to play. coping with contrasting cultures Jo, is told to entertain him. The coniferous forests or plant survival and culture shock. When a horri- adaptations. A number of nature ble accident befalls Pomiuk his busy city makes Napachee miss SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-1 his Inuktitut way of life, and with activities are provided with each whole life changes again as he story. Suggestions for uses, back- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Jo he starts his trek home on foot. LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES makes his way home. A glossary is They track the cub and by feeding ground information and black and included. The author notes that him they make their way to Sachs white illustrations are provided for Index/Bibliography: No/No the story is based on the life Harbour where there is a each story. Also included is a glos- 2008 24 pp. 8.75”x12.5” adventures of an Inuit boy named bittersweet reunion of Napachee sary and pronunciation index. A colour illustrations Pomiuk. The complete story of and his father, and the cub and its general index and an index of the ISBN: 9780888998125 $17.95 HC Pomiuk is contained in Pomiuk: activities by subject make the mother. A glossary of Inuktitut groundwoodbooks.com Prince of Labrador. words is included. works easily accessible. A Walsh has published several Feagan is also the author of Mys- teacher’s guide is available but not books for children including Uncle tery at Shildii Rock, which is listed reviewed. Farley’s False Teeth. in this catalogue. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-7, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 TEACHER RESOURCE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-6 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No 2004 64 pp. 6”x9” 1995 132 pp. 6.75”x9.75” 2007 128 pp. 5.25”x8.25” b/w line drawings line drawings ISBN: 9781550026368 $11.99 PA ISBN: 9780888784476 $9.95 PA ISBN: 9781895618624 $19.95 PA dundurn.com dundurn.com fifthhousepublishing.ca

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Salmon Boy Shin-chi’s Canoe Sky Sisters Tuk and the Whale A Legend of the Sechelt People Nicola I. Campbell Jan Bourdeau Waboose Raquel Rivera Kim LaFave Brian Deines Mary Jane Gerber Donna Joe Groundwood Books Kids Can Press Groundwood Books Charlie Craigan Nightwood Editions LaFave used archival photographs “The Sky Spirits will come This adventure story is set on Baf- and discussions with elders in his tonight!” promises mother. Two fin Island during the early 1600s. This is a retelling of a legend of the research for the colour paintings Ojibway sisters bundle into parkas Tuk, a young Inuit boy, is the first Sechelt people of BC. In it a that illustrate Campbell’s lyrical and mittens and venture alone to see the European whaling ship, Sechelt boy is taken by a giant free verse recounting the experi- across the frozen Northern predicted by his grandfather’s chum salmon to the land of the ence of attending Indian Ontario nighttime landscape to dream. When he tells the others, salmon people beneath the sea. Residential School from a child’s encounter the Sky Sisters. Mostly the children voice the conflicting There he finds that they walk and point of view. Shi-shi-etko is remembering to follow grand - feelings felt by the villagers. Some have dry land much like the peo- returning for her second year but mother’s advice to be quiet, the want to fight and chase them ple on the shore. During his time this time her younger brother, girls taste icicles, hold hands and away, others are excited and with the salmon, the boy watches Shin-chi, is going with her. Shi- dance in snowy circles, howl with drawn to the unknown, deciding and learns all of the things the shi-etko tells him all the things she the coyotes, make snow angels, to trust in the interest of trade. salmon people do to keep them- has learned and tries to prepare and encounter a rabbit and a deer. When the “qallanaat” make it selves from going hungry during him for the time away from home. They climb Coyote Hill where they clear they want the villagers to the winter. He eventually escapes Their father gives Shi-shi-etko a watch and wait. The sky fills with help them to hunt whales, the back to the Sechelt where he tiny carved canoe to take with her. dancing, streaming colours—The decision must be made whether to shares this new knowledge along She gives this to Shin-chi to help Northern Lights—Sky Spirits! The go along with them despite enor- with the information that the him remember what they have left illustrations perfectly capture the mous risks. This well-researched salmon are a people that must be behind. One day, feeling very cold northern night and the book contains many details about shown respect. Included at the homesick, Shin-chi sends the warmth of the girls’ spirits. whaling practices, the Inuits’ day- end of the book is some brief infor- canoe out on the river knowing the Waboose is an Nishnawbe Ojib- to-day activities and lifestyles. The mation about the history of the current will take it back to his way. The book is a Canadian use of many Inuit words provides Sechelt people. home. The story portrays the chil- Children’s Book Centre Choice. authenticity. A glossary is Joe is also the author of dren’s resilience and patience. She also wrote Morning on the included. Ch’askin: a Legend of the Sechelt This book is a sequel to Shi-shi- Lake, also listed in this catalogue. Tuk and the Whale is Rivera’s People. etko, which was co-winner of the third book for children. Aboriginal Children’s Book of the SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-6 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-7 Year. LaFave has illustrated many OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH award-winning children’s books. LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: K-6 Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/Yes OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 1999 24 pp. 7”x8.5” 2000 32 pp. 10”x9” 2008 96 pp. 5”x7.5” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES b/w illustrations colour illustrations b/w illustrations ISBN: 9780889711662 $7.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781550746990 $6.95 PA ISBN: 9780888996893 $15.95 HC / 2008 40 pp. 8.25”x7.75” 9780888998910 $8.95 PA nightwoodeditions.com kidscanpress.com colour illustrations groundwoodbooks.com ISBN: 9780888998576 $18.95 HC

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A Visual Dictionary The Voyage of We Feel Good Which Way of Native Wood Duck Out Here Should I Go? Communities Ta’n Teli Kaqasimiliala’sis Zhik gwaa’an, nakhwatth tat Sylvia Olsen Malsikws gwıınzìı with Ron Martin Bobbie Kalman Kasia Charko Crabtree Publishing Maxine Trottier & Patsy Julie-Ann André & Sono Nis Press MacAulay-MacKinnon Mindy Willett This book is a very generalized Cape Breton University Tessa Macintosh Joey loves spending days with his introduction to the seven main Press Fifth House Publishers grand mother. Whenever he visits groups of Aboriginal people in her they sing and dance together. North America. Two pages with This is a tale of a Mi’kmaq boy, This non-fiction book tells about Joey particularly likes her song illustrations and short paragraphs Wood Duck, who loves the ocean the life of author Julie-Ann André “Which way should I go?” because are given to each, describing their and dreams of what might be who is a Gwichya Gwich’in at the end of the song they always regalia, food preparations, meth- beyond it. His people help him to woman from the Northwest Terri- decide on interesting things to do. ods of travel, lodgings, games, build a huge canoe and sail it tories. The book intersperses When Joey’s beloved grandmother artwork and tools. Readers are across the ocean to the other side, personal stories of her life in the dies Joey cannot find happiness in able to see how lifestyles and cul- where they encounter tall people North with information about the anything. One day, when walking ture differ greatly from region to and animals grazing. Wood Duck Gwichya Gwich’in people, their past his Grandma’s empty house he region. Also portrayed are four stays with the new people until he stories and legends, modern and hears her voice singing their special specific tribes, and a couple pages becomes homesick. He has a dark, traditional life for Julie-Ann and song. He shouts for the song to each describing Plains camp life, foreboding dream of them build- her family, and even some words stop. Eventually as he reflects on pueblo life and native wisdom. A ing their homes in his land, so he in Gwich’in language. The use of the message of the song, he realizes glossary is included. returns home to “watch and wait”. photographs rather than drawings the gift of memories that his grand- Kalman is a prolific author and The story is written in both English to illustrate most of the book mother has left him, and is happy publisher of non-fiction children’s and Mi’kmaq. The accompanying makes it more realistic in its again. books. She often collaborates with colour paintings convey the mean- depiction of life for modern north- Martin is a traditional historian a team of researchers and chooses ing and mood of the story well. ern Aboriginal people. Also and son of the Nuu-chah-nulth her topics with specific curric - This book won the Federation of includes an ‘All the Details’ hereditary chief from Tla-o-qui- ulum needs in mind. Women Teachers of Ontario Writ- section rather than a glossary. aht. Olsen works with teen parents ers Award. Trottier’s other awards This title is part of the The Land is in the Saanich First Nations com- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 include the Mr. Christie’s Book our Storybook series. munity. Her books include The Girl OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL Award. with a Baby. STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-7 Index/Bibliography: Yes/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-7 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 3-6 2008 32 pp. 8.25”x10.75” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH colour illustrations LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES ISBN: 9780778735052 $25.95 HC / Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No 9780778735250 $10.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 32 pp. 8.25”x8.25” 1995 24 pp. 10”x8” b/w & colour photographs, maps 2007 40 pp. 8”x10” crabtreebooks.com colour illustrations ISBN: 9781897252338 $16.95 HC colour illustrations ISBN: 9780920336700 $11.95 PA ISBN: 9781550391619 $19.95 HC fifthhousepublishers.ca cbu.ca/press sononis.com

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Yamozha and His Beaver Wife Vital Thomas Archie Beaulieu Mary Siemens, trans. Theytus Books

This illustrated picture book tells the story of Yamozha who, aban- doned by his brother and living alone in the bush along the Mackenzie River, finds an orphaned girl who agrees to be his wife as long he promises that she will never get her feet wet. Yamozha fails to uphold his prom- ise and she turns into a beaver. As a distraught Yamozha follows his beaver wife and tries to capture her, his actions result in the formation of the distinct features of the area’s landscape. This leg- end, one of a series, teaches about the unique landscape of the southwestern corner of the North- west Territories, an area inhabited by Dene people. The text is written in both English and Dogrib. A CD, on which the story is told in both Dogrib and English, and an orthography and pronunciation chart of the Dogrib language are included.

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Aboriginal Cultures Achimoona Askiwina The Beothuk of in Alberta (édition française) A Cree World Newfoundland Five Hundred Generations Jordan Wheeler, Wes Doug Cuthand A Vanished People Fineday & Harvey Knight, Coteau Books Susan Berry and Jack Brink et al. Ingeborg Marshall Provincial Museum Fifth House Publishers This book is a compilation of sto- Breakwater Books of Alberta ries from the Cree Nation that have Achimoona means “stories” in the been handed down to the author We know about the Beothuk cul- This is an informative reference Cree language, where storytelling through his parents and tribe eld- ture through drawings and text on the history of the Aborigi- was an important task. Since there ers. The stories celebrate the information passed on by one of nal peoples of Western Canada. was no written language, the peo- culture of these Aboriginal peoples the last Beothuks, Sahanawdithit, Beginning with the Ice Age, it ple’s history and values were of Saskatchewan and to help non- a young woman who lived for sev- explores theories of how and passed from generation to genera- Aboriginal peoples understand the eral years with settlers. She passed when Aboriginal people first came tion orally. Storytellers practised Aboriginal society. The author away in the mid 1800s. Other to North America, then reviews for years to memorize a wealth of offers stories about Aboriginal sources of information include tools, hunting and fishing meth- legends and songs. In 1984, a spirituality, history, Native leaders, artifacts and information recorded ods, and spiritual beliefs of the group of Aboriginal writers gath- and customs and traditions in an by those who came in contact with first Aboriginal groups living in ered at Gabriel’s Crossing, easy-to-read manner. His insight the Beothuk people. Chapter titles Alberta. It covers the networks of Saskatchewan, to create contem- into Aboriginal versions of include Transportation, Food and trade between Aboriginal groups porary stories for young people recorded historical events will pro- Clothing. We learn that the and first encounters with that would entertain as well as vide a better understanding of Beothuk built fifty kilometres of Europeans. Later sections focus teach. Each writer pulled an object where this society has come from fence in order to trap caribou. on changes in the past 150 years, from a bag, sat with that item and and where it is headed in the They played a gambling game including treaty signing, establish- created a story around it. Aborigi- future. involving tossing bone pieces and ment of reserves, residential nals believe that stories are “born” Cuthand is a respected journal- stored meat in birchbark dishes schooling, The Indian Act, and the from the spirit, or sacred place, ist, independent film producer between layers of caribou fat, then burying these bundles in pits. resulting resistance, protests, and inside the writer. These nine sto- and director. A collection of his Tapwe, current activism, spiritual ries and one poem, translated into written works, was Askiwina renewal, and reclaiming of voice French, teach about home and published in 2005. won SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-10 and identity. family, respect for nature, or self- the bronze Medal for the Multicul- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL respect. Selected stories could be tural Non-fiction Adult Category STUDIES at the 2008 IPPY Awards. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 read to younger students. Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL 1989 48 pp. 10.5”x8” SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12, STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-12 b/w & colour photographs, line TEACHER RESOURCE OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, drawings, reproductions, maps, Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL diagrams 2004 92 pp. 8.5”x11” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES colour & b/w photographs & STUDIES ISBN: 9780920911181 $14.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No reproductions, line drawings, maps, Index/Bibliography: No/No breakwaterbooks.com 2007 136 pp. 5.5”x8.5” diagrams 1989 104 pp. 8”x8” b/w illustrations ISBN: 9780778528529 $19.95 PA b/w & colour reproductions ISBN: 9781550503456 $19.95 PA uap.ualberta.ca ISBN: 9780920079377 $19.95 PA coteaubooks.com fifthhousepublishers.ca

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Cree Encyclopedia of Finders Keepers Great Women from Words, Volume I & II Native Tribes of Andrea Spalding our First Nations The Dundurn Group Members of the Cree North America Kelly Fournel Editing Council, eds. Danny Budzynski is a failure at Second Story Press Canadian Plains Research Michael Johnson school and the butt of his Center Richard Hook classmates’ Ukrainian jokes. This book from a Métis author fea- Firefly Books When he finds an Indian lance tures short, inspiring summaries of neˉhiýaweˉwin: itweˉwina — Cree: head and meets Joshua the lives of successful and influen- Words is a two-volume, Cree to This copiously illustrated, updated Brokenhorn and his grandfather, tial modern day Aboriginal women English/English to Cree diction- encyclopedia outlines major Abo- life takes a turn for the better. As from both Canada and the US. ary. Volume 1 contains over 15,000 riginal groups of North America Danny learns more about the These women are recognized not Cree vocabulary items written in around the time of contact. Each Peigan nation and the history of only for their work to raise the sta- both the standard Roman alpha- nation is divided into categories by Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, tus of Aboriginal women, but also bet and Cree Syllabics; and culture group and then by he also learns ways to stand up for for their contributions to society as Volume 2 holds 35,000 English language group. The entries are himself and his friend. With the a whole. Their message is applica- entries. The product of fifteen short, but for a quick reference help of a university researcher, ble to any culture or race: years of research, this dictionary they are sufficient. The maps show Danny also comes to understand determine your own destiny, per- uses both Cree Syllabic and Latin cultural areas and reserve lands for his learning disability and work severe, and you will be rewarded letters, and maintains consistent most of the nations. It also toward ways to compensate for it. with success. All of the women fea- spelling throughout. Most of the includes an introduction, classifi- This is a second edition of this tured in this book, whether a poet, material reflects the Cree cation of language groups, glossary Canadian Children’s Book Centre dancer, journalist, writer or song- language used in western Canada. and summary of today’s Aborigi- Choice that was previously pub- writer, have taken on some form of Prefatory material includes essays nal populations. The author uses lished in 1995. Some of the activism in their determination to on Pronunciation and Orthogra- old terminology but does acknowl- information, such as use of com- pave a new path for Aboriginal phy, the Cree language and the edge preferred original names. puters and calculators, is dated. women. Their stories demonstrate sounds of Cree, and a valuable Johnson is a former editor of how to make positive changes in introduction to the Cree-English Pow-Wow Trails and American SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-8 one’s life and the lives of others by and English-Cree entries. Each Indian Crafts and Culture. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH setting goals and taking action. volume is rounded out with charts Caution: The book uses the term LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & Includes b/w photographs of each of common terms. “Indian.” CAREER EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUD- woman featured. An online Cree-English diction- IES This book is part of the First Nations Series for Young Readers. ary based on this book can be SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 Index/Bibliography: No/No found at creedictionary.com OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL 1995 152 pp. 5.25”x8.25” STUDIES ISBN: 9781550028287 $11.99 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-12, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: HEALTH & Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes TEACHER REFERENCE dundurn.com CAREER EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUD- 2007 320 pp. 9.25”x12.25” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: IES b/w & colour photographs, Index/Bibliography: No/Yes illustrations, maps Index/Bibliography: No/No 2001 622 pp. 6.75”x9.75” ISBN: 9781554073078 $49.95 HC 2007 84 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9780889771278 $49.95 PA b/w photographs fireflybooks.com ISBN: 9781897187258 $10.95 PA cprc.ca secondstorypress.on.ca

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House Calls How Raven How the Loon Inuit Art by Dogsled freed the Moon lost her Voice An Introduction Six Years in an Anne Cameron Anne Cameron Ingo Hessel Arctic Medical Outpost Harbour Publishing Harbour Publishing Dieter Hessel Douglas & McIntyre Keith Billington This classic Northwest coast myth, This story is sometimes called Harbour Publishing first published in 1985, is retold Raven Steals the Light. In this First published in 1998, this trade from a female perspective, retelling, first published in 1985, all paperback edition is a must-buy A dynamic story of life in northern explains how the moon came to be the animals must work together in for libraries. Lavishly illustrated, Canada, this heart-warming tale in the sky. Raven, who is a order to free the daylight, which this gorgeous book contains many chronicles the adventures of two trickster, loved bright, shiny has been trapped in ice by evil spir- full-page, full-colour photographs nurses in the Northwest Territo- things, and especially wanted the its. Each animal in turn comes up of important Inuit works. There are ries. This is the true story of Keith moon. She used her magic to turn with a plan to defeat the evil spirits, also black and white depictions, and Muriel Billington who moved herself into a baby, in order to fool and Raven tries to warn them each including historical photographs. from England to Fort McPherson the old fisherwoman and her time that the plan will not work. A surprisingly readable text offers in the 1960s. The book recalls the daughter, who were the guardians Raven uses her cunning to free the history and important develop - history of the Fort McPherson of the moon. daylight, and is successful, but in ments in Inuit arts. A broad range area, including information about Cameron, a non-Aboriginal, the struggle, each animal was of subject matter is addressed from the Gwich’in peoples, European grew up on Vancouver Island changed: Deer lost his antlers, Bear materials used in various regions contact and the Hudson’s Bay where she met an Aboriginal must rest from his labour each win- to the influence of such elements Company outpost. Uplifting and woman named Klopinum who ter, and Loon lost her voice. as marketing ventures from south- humorous stories are related shared many First Nations myths Cameron’s prose is poetic and ern Canada. This important aspect about the first time using and legends with her and gave her spare; each word carefully chosen of Canadian art is one with which snowshoes, a dog sled team and permission to write them down in to create beautiful imagery. all students should be familiar. getting to know the families who order to share them with others. Cameron has written many Caution: There are depictions of live in the community. There are The story is retold for children and books for children and adults hunting, which could be frighten- also stories of medical emergen- this series is beautifully illustrated including How Raven Freed the ing to some; several images depict cies and death, which really show with black and white drawings. Moon (included in this catalogue). nude figures. the reader the hardships that the Cameron, a non-Aboriginal, was peoples who live up in northern SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 given permission to share the First SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-12 NWT are faced with on a daily OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Nations stories by Klopinum, a OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS basis. LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES First Nations woman from Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Vancouver Island. Index/Bibliography: No/No 1998 208 pp. 9.5”x11” SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 1985 32 pp. 7”x8.5” b/w & colour reproductions OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH b/w illustrations SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 ISBN: 9781550548297 $45.00 PA LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES ISBN: 9780920080672 $7.95 PA OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES douglas-mcintyre.com Index/Bibliography: No/No harbourpublishing.com 2008 352 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w photographs, map 1985 32 pp. 7”x8.5” ISBN: 9781550174236 $19.95 PA b/w illustrations ISBN: 9780920080559 $7.95 PA harbourpublishing.com harbourpublishing.com

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Inuksuit Jason’s New The Kids Book of The Kids Book of Silent Messengers of the Arctic Dugout Canoe Aboriginal Peoples the Far North Norman Hallendy Joe Barber-Starkey in Canada Ann Love & Jane Drake Douglas & McIntyre Paul Montpellier Jocelyn Bouchard Harbour Publishing Diana Silvey Kids Can Press With these fifty-two superb John Mantha colour photographs of inuksuit, A storm washes away Jason’s Kids Can Press This highly illustrated and inform- the author has recorded dramatic canoe. He is devastated until Uncle ative book is about the top of the images from more than forty Silas offers to build him a new one, This copiously illustrated book is a world, which includes the tree line years of travel and study with and to teach Jason the ancient craft cultural overview of the seven and everything above it. Eight Inuit elders. The accompanying of canoe-making. First, a block of major Aboriginal groups in countries share the Far North. The text is thoughtful and informative, wood is cut from the trunk of a Canada: the Northwest Coast, authors explain the environment, providing insights into the value large red cedar tree (without killing Plateau, Plains, Arctic, Subarctic, plant and animal life, ancient peo- of the inuksuit as a communica- the tree) and left several months to Eastern Woodlands Iroquoians ples, the Arctic’s riches and tion tool. Hallendy has provided season. Then it is hollowed out and the Eastern Woodland Algo- everyday life of the people who diagrams that show examples of using axes, adzes, chisels and Topics include ceremonies, food, live there. “Eco Watch” sidebars the construction, shapes, and knives. Before contact, Aboriginal clothing, trade, religious beliefs link the Arctic and ecological possible arrangements of peoples used stone, bone and and shelter. Silvey shows what life warnings. “Elder Tales” sidebars inuksuit as well as maps detailing shells, and sometimes fire, for this was like both before and during tell legends of the North. A time- specific inuksuit sites where his task - it took a whole year to make the time of European contact. line stretching four pages shows photographs were shot. An one canoe. The sides of the canoe Sidebars provide information on how human activities in the North appendix provides a glossary of are shaped by filling the hollow famous Aboriginal Canadians. have changed over time. terms specific to the function and canoe with hot water to soften the Colour maps, cross-sections and This book was shortlisted for the features of inuksuk types. wood, then gently hammering diagrams enhance the text. Silver Birch, the Hackmatack and crosspieces between the sides. This book was nominated for a the Norma Fleck Awards. The Kids SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 There is a large celebration to hon- BC Book Prize in 2006. Silvey’s Book of series of eleven titles OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL our the completion of Jason’s previous books include Raven’s includes books on Canadian STUDIES, FINE ARTS canoe, with smoked salmon, danc- Flight and From Time Exploration, Canadian Firsts and Index/Bibliography: Yes/No ing and story-telling. Immemorial. The Kids Book of Great Canadian Women. The Kids 2001 128 pp. 10.5”x9.5” Barber-Starkey wrote Jason and series includes books on Canadian Book of Aboriginal Peoples in b/w & colour photographs, maps, the Sea Otter listed in this History, Prime Ministers and The Canada is included in this diagrams catalogue and also illustrated by Kids Book of the Far North, which catalogue. ISBN: 9781550548747 $35.00 PA Montpellier. is included in this catalogue. douglas-mcintyre.com SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-10 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-8 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-10 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2000 48 pp. 9.25”x12.25” 2000 32 pp. 7.75”x10.5” 2005 64 pp. 9.25”x12.25” colour illustrations colour illustrations colour illustrations, maps, diagrams ISBN: 9781550745634 $19.95 HC ISBN: 9781550172294 $18.95 HC ISBN: 9781550749984 $19.95 HC kidscanpress.com harbourpublishing.com kidscanpress.com

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Men of Courage Middle Row Nations of the Nations of from our First Sylvia Olsen Eastern Great Lakes the Plains Orca Book Publishers Nations Rebecca Sjonger & Bobbie Kalman In this sequel to Olsen’s previous Bobbie Kalman Crabtree Publishing Vincent Schilling novel, Yellow Line, we catch up Crabtree Publishing Second Story Press with Raedawn and Vince, a teen Another of the Native Nations of couple who have created contro- This book is one in the Native North America series. This book Vincent Schilling, a member of the versy in their town and within their Nations of North America series. It introduces the indigenous people St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in families because Vince is white introduces the indigenous people who lived in an area of one million Virginia, has assembled this col- and Raedawn is Aboriginal. It’s the who lived between Lake Huron square miles in central North lection of biographies that feature beginning of the school year and and Lake Ontario and the area America. The open areas of the the life stories of ten Aboriginal one of their fellow students, Dune, east of Lake Ontario. This was a plains presented challenges of cli- men, Canadian and American, is missing. He lived in a squatter region of many plants, animals, mate and lack of plant life. The who have contributed to fields of cabin in the woods with his rivers and lakes. It consisted of two people who lived there relied on education, medicine, politics, law mother, but nobody has seen him main confederacies, the the buffalo. The three main areas enforcement and science. The since the first day of school. Haudenosaunee and the Wendat. were the Northern Plains, the men talk about what motivated Raedawn is determined to find These nations spoke the Iroquoian Central Plains and the Southern them and the obstacles they him, and with the help of Vince language. The book covers the Plains. The housing differed encountered. Their stories and her Uncle Dave, she years between the late 1500s and depending on environment and demonstrate that through deter- investigates. Unfortunately, they early 1600s. The reader is lifestyle. Because many different mination, courage and hard work, find a lot more trouble than they introduced to the village life, gov- languages were spoken on the they can realize their dreams, and were looking for. Told against a ernment, family relationships, Plains, sign language allowed the at the same time enrich the lives of backdrop of hate and racism from obtaining food, trade between different nations to communicate. others. The author provides black Vince’s family and others in their nations, changes with the seasons, The introduction of the horse by and white photographs of the men community, this is an interesting, contact with the Europeans and the Spanish explorers changed the and information about Aboriginal fast-paced book. conflicts. Informative and easy to way of life of the Plains nations. people is presented in text boxes. This book is part of the Orca use, each chapter features a dou- Colour illustrations and captions Schilling is also the author of Soundings series of Hi-Lo readers. ble spread with text, colour of related information and a glos- Great Athletes from our First Yellow Line won the International illustrations and captions of sary are included. Nations, also in the The First Youth Library White Raven award. related information. A glossary is Other titles in the series are Nations Series for Young Readers. Caution: Includes some swear- included. included in this catalogue. ing and some characters engage SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 in overt racist behaviour. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-8 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-8 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 STUDIES STUDIES CAREER EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUD- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/No IES LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2005 32 pp. 8.25”x10.75” 2001 32 pp. 8.25”x10.75” Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No colour illustrations b/w photographs, colour illustrations 2008 118 pp. 6”x9” 2008 112 pp. 4.25”x7” ISBN: 9780778703815 $25.95 HC / ISBN: 9780778703686 $25.95 HC / b/w photographs ISBN: 9781551439013 $16.95 HC / 9780778704737 $10.95 PA 9780778704607 $10.95 PA ISBN: 9781897187432 $10.95 PA 9781551438993 $9.95 PA crabtreebooks.com crabtreebooks.com secondstorypress.ca orcabook.com

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Nations of the Native Homes Nokum Nokum Is Western Great Bobbie Kalman Ma voix et mon coeur My Teacher Crabtree Publishing Lakes David Bouchard David Bouchard Allen Sapp This copiously illustrated non-fic- Allen Sapp Kathryn Smithyman tion book in the series Native Les Éditions des Plaines Red Deer Press & Bobbie Kalman Nations of North America Crabtree Publishing describes the various types of The French language translation This picture book is not for young homes used by Aboriginal groups of Nokum is My Teacher is not for children. It is a serious book that Also in the Native Nations of North throughout North America. Infor- young children. This is a serious requires slow reading and some America series, this book mation includes construction book that requires slow reading thought. A troubled boy asks his introduces the indigenous people methods and materials, use of and some thought. A troubled boy grandmother (Nokum) for who lived around Lake Superior, space inside, and some informa- asks his grandmother (Nokum) for advice—Why does he need to Lake Michigan and west of Lake tion about how homes within a advice—Why does he need to learn to read? Why does he have to Huron. This was a region of many settlement might be arranged. learn to read? Why does he have to learn about their ways? Why don’t plants, animals, rivers and lakes. It This book is really useful for com- learn about their ways? Why don’t they learn about ours? Why didn’t consisted of eleven nations. These paring the living arrangements of they learn about ours? Why didn’t Nokum learn to read? Nokum nations spoke languages that various Aboriginal groups as well Nokum learn to read? Nokum does not provide her grandson belonged to either the Algonquian as for looking at how environ - does not provide her grandson with easy answers. She responds or Siouan language group. The ment, available materials and with easy answers. She responds with questions that require the reader is introduced to the differ- nomadic versus sedentary with questions that require the boy to look into his own heart. The ent nations and their relationship lifestyles affect building style. boy to look into his own heart. The message in the end is simple. We to each other. Other information Includes a glossary. message in the end is simple. We should share our learnings. Learn includes how these people related Other titles in the series are should share our learnings. Learn from each other. Teach each to the changing seasons, their included in this catalogue. from each other. Teach each other. This resource includes a CD homes, modes of transportation, other. This resource includes a CD of the story read in Cree and Eng- trade between nations, contact SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-10 of the story read in Cree and lish with the Aboriginal drumming with the Europeans and how that OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL French with the Aboriginal drum- group Northern Cree. contact completely changed their STUDIES ming group Northern Cree. Sapp is a Governor General’s Lit- The French translation is distrib- lives. Colour illustrations and cap- Index/Bibliography: Yes/No erary Award winner and an Officer tions of related information and a uted by Éditions des Plaines. Sapp of the Order of Canada. Bouchard 2001 32 pp. 8.25”x10.75” is a Governor General’s Literary glossary are included. colour illustrations & photographs, has written over two dozen books Award winner. Bouchard has writ- maps, diagrams including If You’re Not From the ten over two dozen books. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-8 ISBN: 9780778703716 $25.95 HC / Prairie. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL 9780778704638 $10.95 PA STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-9 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-9 crabtreebooks.com OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/No STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 2003 32 pp. 8.25”x10.75” colour illustrations Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9780778704645 $25.95 HC / 2006 32 pp. 11.25”x9.5” 2006 32 pp. 11.25”x9.5” 9780778704645 $10.95 PA colour illustrations colour illustrations ISBN: 9780889953833 $24.95 PA ISBN: 9780889953673 $24.95 HC crabtreebooks.com plaines.mb.ca reddeerpress.com

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The Old Man with Orca’s Song Orphan Ahwak Pacific Northwest the Otter Medicine Anne Cameron Raquel Rivera Coast Aboriginal Art Harbour Publishing Orca Book Publishers John Blondin (as told by What Am I Seeing? George Blondin) First published in 1987, this is a This engaging tale draws on exten- Karin Clark Archie Beaverho beautiful story of how Orca and sive research into the life of Raven Publishing Mary Rose Sundberg, trans. Osprey fell in love. They loved each western Canadian nomadic Theytus Books other so much that they tried to groups and the Inuit people as become part of each other’s they lived before the time of the Karin Clark’s book gives a concise worlds, with Orca trying to leap fur trade. Aneze pulls her battered overview of the major elements in This legend is based on stories told into the sky and Osprey spending body from the stream where she Pacific Northwest Coast Aborigi- in the oral tradition of the Dene more and more time on the surface had been tossed and left for dead nal art. First, she maps the area people. The people living on the of the water. “One day as Osprey to find that she is the sole survivor under consideration and the shores of a small lake realize they swooped towards the waves, Orca of a vicious attack on her tribe. She groups who live there. Then she are not catching enough fish to leaped into the air, and for one tracks the attackers through the outlines the intentions and proce- sustain them through the winter, moment their bodies touched, and bush and comes across her dures of a potlatch and the so they ask a man who has medi- their love was shown.” Their baby mother’s lifeless body. Numb with materials that would be used to cine power to help. He transforms was both black and white, combin- grief, she wanders north, away produce the potlatch goods. Fol- into an otter, visits the depths of ing the colours of her parents. She from the forests of her clan and lowing on, two-page spreads the lake, and kills the jackfish that could leap high into the air, she into the tundra. A lone Inuit consider the places where Pacific are keeping the fish captive. The could never fly, like her father, but hunter finds the nearly dead Northwest Coast art is found from people soon find their nets are full. she could sing. To this day, the Aneze collapsed in the snow and long houses to button blankets, to This legend teaches children song of the Orca is one of the most nurses her back to health. She jewelry. Clark then introduces the about the lifestyle, culture and beautiful sounds of any animal, spends the winter with the Inuit creatures and mythical beings hardships faced by Dene living in expressing the love of creatures hunter, learning his way of life. depicted in the artwork. The final remote regions. The text is written from two different realities. When spring arrives, she travels section breaks apart the compo- in both English and the Dene’s Cameron is an award-winning back to the forest area, meets a nents of various design units Dogrib language. author. She also wrote How the nomadic group similar to her peo- looking at formline and relieving A CD-ROM of the story told in Loon lost her Voice and How ple, and after proving herself a shapes. Colour and black and both the Weledeh dialect of the Raven freed the Moon, also worthy hunter and healer, she is white illustrations have been cre- Dogrib language and English, and included in this catalogue. This accepted into their family. ated with the assistance of three an orthography and pronun - story was given to her to share by a Rivera has written Arctic Adven- other artists. ciation chart of the Dogrib First Nations woman, Klopinum, tures and Tuk and the Whale. language are included. from Vancouver Island. Caution: Vivid descriptions of SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-10 injuries and death. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 1-7 SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-8 LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 2007 64 pp. 6.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES colour photographs, b/w illustrations Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 40 pp. 8”x10” ISBN: 9780973676945 $14.95 PA 1987 32 pp. 9”x12” Index/Bibliography: No/No colour illustrations b/w illustrations 2007 144 pp. 5”x7.5” ISBN: 9781894778497 $24.95 PA ravenpublishing.com ISBN: 9780920080290 $7.95 PA ISBN: 9781551436531 $8.95 PA theytusbooks.ca harbourpublishing.com orcabook.com

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Les Premières Qu’Appelle Reading the Bones Recording nations (French version) A Peggy Henderson Adventure Their Story À la découverte du Canada David Bouchard Gina McMurchy-Barber James Teit and the Tahltan Michael Lonechild The Dundurn Group Robert Livesey & A. G. Éditions des Plaines Judy Thompson Smith In this novel, twelve-year-old Douglas & McIntyre Éditions des Plaines This French language resource is a Peggy Henderson eases the loneli- hauntingly beautiful Cree legend ness of separation from her This richly illustrated book is part In this French language resource, about a profound love. Two Cree mother by getting involved in the biography of James Teit and part seven Aboriginal groups from var- children love each other so much excavation of Aboriginal remains catalogue of the Tahltan ious regions of Canada are that they communicate without found buried in her uncle’s back- Ethnographic collection at the discussed: the Aboriginals of the speaking. Grown up, Ikciv departs yard. With the help of an elderly Canadian Museum of Civilization. east coast, forests (Great Lakes) to fight in a war. Witonia, missing archaeologist, Peggy comes to The collections, and Teit’s notes, Arctic, sub-Arctic, plains, plateau him, falls gravely ill. That night understand the significance of the are of significant value to the and west coast. Each chapter Ikciv hears a voice coming to him find as she learns the history of the Tahltan community. Teit, an emi- begins with a legend from that cul- from across the lake. “Qui buried storyteller and of her new grant from the Shetland Islands, ture. Aboriginal people depended appelle?” he asks. “Who’s home, Crescent Beach, BC. learned several Aboriginal on plants and animals in their calling?” He returns to the camp to Increasing tension between Peggy languages and became active in environment to survive. The sub- find Witonia dead. Immediately and her aunt pushes Peggy to a representing BC Indians Arctic people were nomads, he embarks in his canoe to follow desperate act that she immedi - politically. Teit worked at a period following herds of caribou or deer. the voice of his beloved. He con- ately regrets. Peggy must find a of transition between amateur and The plains people hunted bison, tinues to this day to seek his way to make amends for this rash professional anthropology. Much while the Inuit depended on seal Witonia. So, if you are walking on impulse and in so doing comes to of the work of Teit and other local oil for heat and light. The informa- the prairie, listen carefully and you a better understanding of the collaborators appeared under the tion provided for each group is not might hear the voice of that young adults in her life. names of their mentors, but recent extensive, but includes interesting brave calling “Qu’appelle?” McMurchy-Barber won the 2004 changes in anthropology have facts: Did you know that the Inuit Detailed oil paintings depict tradi- Governor General’s Award for focussed credit on the semi-pro- crafted snow goggles? That tional Cree life on the plains of Excellence in Teaching Canadian fessional local collectors and Mohawk means “cannibal”? southern Saskatchewan. History. recorders of traditional Aboriginal Hands-on activities are included. This title is also available in Eng- languages and cultures. Les Premières nations is a trans- lish. Bouchard has written over SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-8 Thompson is a curator at the lation of Native Peoples in the thirty children’s books. Lonechild OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Canadian Museum of Civilization. series Discovering Canada. is a world-renowned Cree artist. LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & CAREER EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUD- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-12 IES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-9 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-8 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/Yes SOCIAL STUDIES STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 2008 152 pp. 5.25”x8.25” ISBN: 9781550027327 $11.99 PA Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/Yes 2007 224 pp. 9.5”x11” 2008 90 pp. 8.25”x8.25” 2005 32 pp. 9”x12” dundurn.com line drawings, maps colour illustrations archival photographs, colour ISBN: 9782896110407 $14.95 PA ISBN: 9782896110414 $21.95 HC reproductions, line drawings, maps ISBN: 9781553652328 $55.00 HC plaines.mb.ca plaines.mb.ca douglas-mcintyre.com

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Silent Words Stolen Away Tom Longboat Totem Poles Ruby Slipperjack Christopher Dinsdale Terry Barber Pat Kramer Fifth House Publishers Napoleon Publishing Grass Roots Press Heritage House Publishing

Danny Lynx is a young Cree boy The reader learns of Viking and Tom Longboat was one of the best Totem Poles is a tribute to the cul- living in Western Ontario in the Beothuk culture through the runners in the world. In 1907 he tures of the Aboriginal peoples of 1960s. This novel tells of his adventures of Kiera in this young won the world’s most famous the Northwest Coast. The first attempt to free himself from a adult novel. Kiera is stolen away race, the Boston Marathon, beat- chapter explains the origins and painful and violent home situation from Ireland by Vikings around ing the record by five minutes. history of the poles. Kramer then by running away. He follows the 1000 A.D. Kiera and her masters Tom was born in 1887 on a farm on describes the different types of CN train tracks in search of his settle in Newfoundland. They are the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. poles, carving techniques, the mother. Throughout his travels he under constant threat of attack by From an early age he loved symbols and figures, and the meets many people, some that the Thule people. Kiera sets sail running. He once outran his often-confusing relationships harm and those who teach him with the Vikings to seek a new set- brother’s horse and carriage on a between kinship groups. A map valuable life lessons through kind- tlement. She is washed overboard, forty–mile trip to Hamilton. He pinpoints all major locations ness and giving. Ol’ Jim is the most then saved by a Beothuk brother gave the horse a thirty-minute where totem poles can be found significant adult he encounters, an and sister. Kiera lives with the head start. Running in Longboat’s and brief descriptions of the poles elder who cares for Danny and Beothuk and learns their ways. day was a popular spectator sport are provided. This beautifully educates him about nature and Eventually, Kiera and her Beothuk that drew large crowds. Tom illustrated book uses photographs, the world around him. Most boyfriend cross the sea to Cape Longboat trained hard and paintings and sketches to give importantly, Ol’ Jim takes the time Breton, his ancestral territory, to a became famous worldwide. Care- readers a greater appreciation and to love Danny and show him that village that resembles Kiera’s Irish fully selected photographs are understanding of the complexity the world is not as cruel or “home”. presented on facing pages. A glos- of totem poles. Kramer explains unpleasant as Danny thought it Dinsdale also wrote Broken Cir- sary is included. that they are “more than stories, was. Danny is eventually reunited cle. Stolen Away suggests Irish This is part of high interest, low hidden among figures are layers of with his father, but it comes to a monks brought Christianity to the vocabulary series of biographies, intertwined meaning”. sad end when Danny learns of his New World 200 years before the Grass Roots Biographies, about Kramer is a writer, photo - mother’s death and accidentally Vikings. This is highly speculative. athletes. Other books in the Sports grapher, naturalist and speaker, shoots his father. Caution: One character believes Series include Wayne Gretzky, and acknowledged expert on the Slipperjack’s other novels Christianity is superior to Althea Gibson, Muhammad Ali Aboriginal cultures of the North- include Honour the Sun and Aboriginal beliefs. and Nancy Greene. west Coast. Weesquachak and the Lost Ones. Caution: Some domestic vio- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 5-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 2-9 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 4-12 lence and the death of loved ones. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-10 Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 2006 240 pp. 5”x7.5” 2007 48 pp. 7”x8.5” 2008 112 pp. 5.75”x8.75” LANGUAGE ARTS map b/w photographs, maps colour & archival photographs, line Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 97818949417209 $10.95 PA ISBN: 9781894593618 $12.95 PA drawings, maps 1992 250 pp. 5.5”x8.5” ISBN: 9781894974448 $19.95 PA napoleonandcompany.com literacyservices.com ISBN: 9780920079935 $16.95 PA heritagehouse.ca fifthhousepublishers.ca

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The Way Lies North The Whale People Will’s Garden Jean Rae Baxter Roderick Haig-Brown Lee Maracle Ronsdale Press Harbour Publishing Theytus Books

This book is part survival guide The Whale People is a reprint of a This is a revised edition of the and part love story. It tells the tale classic “coming-of-age” story set book first published in 2002. As of Charlotte and her Loyalist fam- in a West Coast Aboriginal whal- Will prepares for his Becoming ily who must leave their home and ing village before the European Man Ceremony, relatives fill the run for their lives when they are arrival. Fourteen-year-old Atlin house, bringing with them memo- forced off their land during the must prematurely succeed his ries, tradition and customs. As American Revolution. Charlotte father, a great whaling chief who they work together beading, carv- also leaves behind her beloved died in the hunt. Slowly learning ing and cooking, Will reflects on Nick who unfortunately both the craft and the magic of their stories of working on railroad sympathizes with the Revolution- whaling, Atlin uses his whaling construction or surviving Residen- aries. The people of the Mohawk skills and his political shrewdness tial Schools. The Ceremony takes Nation are friends of the fleeing to marry the daughter of the hos- on new importance for Will. After Loyalists and help them travel tile chief of a neighbouring tribe. the Ceremony Will is inspired to north to Canada to get to safety. Atlin’s acceptance of the spiritual take action to make changes in his Nick, on his own journey of explanation for everything is mod- own life. An outcast at his high discovery, becomes a courier for ified by his family’s experience school, where racism is common- the Loyalists and he and Charlotte that spiritual help means nothing place, he befriends the “nerds”, are reunited. The time Charlotte without hunting skill. Historical comes to terms with his new spends with the Aboriginal guides whaling techniques and hunting friend’s homosexuality and com- on this dangerous trip and during scenes are described in detail. The mits himself to a future of change. additional ones she must take, Whale People convincingly relates He is transformed into the man gives her much insight into the the transformation of Atlin that he promised to become in his ways of the Mohawk people. She through suffering, hard work and Becoming Man Ceremony. becomes well versed in their tradi- faith from a boy into a brave man. Maracle, of Salish and Cree tions and customs and eventually The Whale People won the Cana- ancestry, is an award-winning lives up to her new Aboriginal dian Library Association Book of author. name, ‘Woman of Two Worlds’. the Year for Children award in Baxter has written several short 1964. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 7-10 stories. The Way Lies North is her OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH first novel. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-12 LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH CAREER, SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 6-10 LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 224 pp. 5”x7.5” LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES 2003 206 pp. 5.25”x8” ISBN: 9781894778596 $16.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781550172775 $14.95 PA theytusbooks.ca 2007 342 pp. 5.25”x7.5” harbourpublishing.com ISBN: 9781553800484 $10.95 PA

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1885 and After Aboriginal All Gone Widdun alterNatives Native Society in Transition Well-Being Annamarie Beckel Drew Hayden Taylor Breakwater Books Talonbooks F. Laurie Barron & Canada’s Continuing Challenge James B. Waldram, eds. This novel is based on the story of This play centres on a dinner party Canadian Plains Jerry White, Dan Beavon & Nicholas Spence, eds. Shawnawdithit, the last Beothuk of hosted by Colleen and Angel. Research Centre Newfoundland, and her relation- Colleen is a non-practicing Jewish Thompson Educational ship with William Epps Cormack, a professor of Aboriginal studies and This anthology of nineteen Publishing St. John’s merchant. Cormack, a her companion Angel, an Ojibwa, is academic papers about post-1885 member of the Aborigines Protec- a writer of science fiction. Angel is Aboriginal history provides inter- This scholarly work presents tion Society, makes it his mission no longer interested in his Aborigi- pretations through multiple empirical studies on the well- to locate members of the Beothuk nal background. Colleen, however, voices. It includes the understand- being of Aboriginal communities tribe, which had been decimated is so absorbed in her studies that ing of the Northwest Rebellion, across Canada from the Aborigi- by British settlers. The intent is to she is only interested in showing off nal Policy Research Conference protect them from extinction and her Ojibwan boyfriend. Colleen under the leadership of Louis Riel, held on March 23, 2006 and the and explains the prairie Assembly of First Nations call for to bring them to civilization. Cor- invites her friends Michelle and anarchism that shaped the think- action against poverty. The book is mack learns of Shawnawdithit, Dale who are environmentalists ing of Aboriginals, plus the divided into three sections: meas- who works as a domestic servant in and vegetarians and two of Angel’s ensuing practices and policies of uring well-being, the Human an outport home. He brings her to old friends to the gathering— Canada. The first section of the Development Index (HDI) and the St. John’s where he hopes to intro- Yvonne and Bobby who are the book deals with events leading up Community Well-being (CWB) duce her to British society and alterNatives, radical Aboriginal to and including the reasons for Index. The papers address the learn about her culture. The novel, activists. As the six begin to inter- the hostility. The second focuses topics of poverty, lack of education which is told from both characters’ act, it becomes clear that the attainment, poor health and other points of view, reveals stark differ- company is not compatible, just on the transition of Aboriginal social problems that affect many society following 1885. Although Aboriginal people. These studies ences between the two cultures. It like Colleen’s dinner of moose roast published in 1985, the papers carry make a case for the need to create is through the complex and vegetable lasagna—and the a message that is still relevant. an awareness of Aboriginal issues, Shawnawdithit that the reader sparks fly. Taylor, a keen observer Many political policies, plus social and also provide academics and learns of the Beothuk’s deep spiri- of the human condition, has practices and attitudes, remain government with a better idea of tuality and humanity. written an entertaining and the same. The book contains where they should be concentrat- Beckel has published scientific thought-provoking social satire. extensive chapter notes. ing on policy and resources. articles and a non-fiction book Taylor has won many awards, Caution: The term “Indian” is Statistical data comparing Aborig- Breaking New Waters. All Gone including the Chalmers Canadian inal and non-Aboriginal Widdun is her first novel. Play Award for Best Play for a used throughout the book. communities are also included. Caution: Some sexual content. Young Audience. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 Caution: Some coarse language. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 TEACHER RESOURCE STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS 1986 306 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/Yes colour illustrations 1999 392 pp. 5”x8” Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 246 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9780889770425 $21.00 PA ISBN: 9781550811476 $19.95 PA 2000 144 pp. 5.5”x8.5” charts, graphs, maps, tables ISBN: 9780889224285 $17.95 PA cprc.ca ISBN: 9781550771770 $36.95 PA breakwaterbooks.com talonbooks.com thompsonbooks.com

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Annie Mae’s The Assiniboine Au temps The Baby Blues Movement Edwin Thompson Denig de la Prairie Drew Hayden Taylor J. N. B. Hewitt, ed. Talonbooks Yvette Nolan Canadian Plains Research L’histoire des Métis de l’Ouest Playwrights Canada Press Center canadien racontée par Auguste In the foreward to this play, Taylor Vermette, neveu de Louis Riel says, “I wrote what some have Based on Anna Mae Aquash‘s life, The Assiniboine was written called a Native version of a British this play is not an historical around 1854 by Edwin Denig, a fur Marcien Ferland, ed. sex farce, as a celebration of the account. Anna was a Mi’kmaq trader who lived for twenty-five Éditions du Blé Aboriginal sense of humour.” Tay- woman struggling with life, love years among the Plains Indians on lor uses a pow-wow setting and and Aboriginal rights in the 1970s. focuses on three males and three the Upper Missouri. This insightful In 1981, ethnologist Marcien She moved to the US and became females, ranging in age from six- encyclopedic work remained Ferland was collecting folksongs in involved in the Aboriginal move- teen through sixty to deliver the unpublished until 1930, when it francophone Manitoba and met ment AIM. This play concentrates humour of The Baby Blues. was edited for publication in the Auguste Vermette. He realized that on her attempts to find love in a Taylor’s script is fast-paces, has an Smithsonian Bureau of American Mr. Vermette, age 90, was a living time of much upheaval as she tries interesting plot, and an Ethnology. This new edition pro- wealth of information about Métis to help initiate change in US gov- exceptional ending. vides a complete ethnology of the culture and history. Over the ernment policies. The play Caution: Some coarse language Assiniboine Indians, including course of five years, Ferland chronicles her involvement with is included. information on their history, tribal recorded his many conversations Dennis Banks, her efforts at being a organization and government, with Vermette. The result is this positive female leader in a male religion, medicine, manners and French-language book. In SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 driven movement, and her subse- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH, customs, warfare and language. Vermette’s own words we learn quent interrogation not only by the PERSONAL PLANNING Denig also looked at the similari- about the everyday life of the Métis. FBI but by AIM members ties and differences of other In short chapters we learn about Index/Bibliography: No/No themselves. Throughout this Aboriginal tribes. Denig’swork dental hygiene, soap, sex, pemmi- 1999 93 pp. 5.5”x8.5” process, she is haunted by a provides students with an authen- can, mid-wives, castration of colour illustrations Rugaru, a werewolf, who is not only tic record of how Europeans animals, the life of a voyageur and ISBN: 9780889224063 $16.95 PA a figment of her imagination but viewed the “Indians” during the the Métis diet. Vermette also pro- also represents her belief that she talonbooks.com fur trade days, and how the North- vides an insiders’ view of pivotal will be the victim of her own ern Plains people lived before the events and people in Canadian his- choices. imposition of reservations. tory. According to Vermette, Louis Nolan’s other plays include The use of the word “Indian” is Riel was eloquent, educated, reli- BLADE, Job’s Wife and Video. used in historical context. gious and a gentle leader whose Caution: Contains some coarse goal was reconciliation. language and mentions rape. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2000 290 pp. 6.75”x9.75” Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w photographs, line drawings 2006 220 pp. 4”x6.75” 1998 64 pp. 5.25”x8.25” ISBN: 9780889771321 $24.00 PA b/w photograph, maps ISBN: 9780887549045 $16.95 PA ISBN: 9782921347921 $14.95 PA cprc.ca playwrightscanada.com ble.recf.ca

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Bear Child Bella Bella Bella Coola Man The Berlin Blues The Life and Times of A Season of Heiltsuk Art The Life of a First Nations Elder Drew Hayden Taylor Talonbooks Jerry Potts Martha Black Harvey Thommasen Douglas & McIntyre Alistair Anderson Rodger D. Touchie In this comic play, the Ojibwe Heritage House Publishing Harbour Publishing community of the Otter Lake This is a thoroughly researched Reserve is faced with making a Although Bear Child is a and academically referenced doc- Through taped discussions at decision that will affect their biography, it is equally a history of ument. Geographically, the Bella Coola Hospital, Clayton future. A consortium of German the nineteenth century develop- Heiltsuk Nation lies at the centre of Mack is able to tell about his life developers offers to improve the ment of Western Canada, the British Columbia Northwest lived on the BC coast during the local economy by creating a particularly the southwest prairie Coast. Although the primary focus twentieth century. His story of Native theme park, region. The author weaves the nar- of the book is the Heiltsuk art astonishments and achievements “OjibwayWorld”, designed to rative of Jerry Potts’s life as a forms, the author uses the history, is told with honesty and humour. attract tourists from around the trader, hunter, scout and culture and language of the Heilt- Mack begins by describing how he world. This could bring prosperity interpreter. The book includes the suk Nation to interpret the art. The learned “about the old Indian and improve life for many of the history of the trading empires, the carvings, sculptures, canoes and ways” of fishing, hunting and trad- residents, however, it could also negotiations between the Aborigi- other artifacts of that specific ing by listening to the elders. With create a world that is not truly nal people and their European region represent this culturally sig- photographs, pictures, detailed their own and divide the commu- contacts, the Aboriginal devasta- nificant art form. Traditionally maps and precise descriptions, nity. In his characteristic humour, tion by European diseases, the Heiltsuk ceremonialists, canoe Mack weaves a tale of his life, the author deals with issues of establishment of the North West makers, carvers and artists were learning and appreciating all that unemployment, poverty, a chang- Mounted Police, the effects of influential but mysterious. Martha nature and the people around him ing world, and the misconceptions American policies on Western Black helps explain this have to offer. An important and of Aboriginal people. This play will Canada, the coming of the railway, dichotomy. The book can be used influential Nuxalk Indian elder, he entertain and delight while also and the Northwest Rebellion. in many ways: a manual guide remained forlorn over the deple- offering topics for students to dis- Sidebars provide additional biog- modeling specific art forms, art his- tion of the wildlife, fish and forests cuss and debate. tory and regional Aboriginal raphical information, timelines that were so abundant during the Hayden Taylor is an awarding- and events. cultural education. It contains earlier years of his life. winning Aboriginal playwright extensive chapter notes, glossaries, Touchie has also written Vancou- Thommasen also wrote Grizzlies and humourist who has published ver Island: Portrait of a Past. appendices and timelines. & White Guys, and teaches at the several plays and short stories. The Caution: The word “Indian” is Black was curator of the Isaacs University of Northern BC. Berlin Blues has been produced in . used in its historical context. Gallery for twenty years Caution: Includes some coarse several Canadian and American language. cities. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 12,TEACHER RESOURCE OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/Yes STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 1997 208 pp. 9.5”x9.5” 2005 336 pp. 5.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w and colour photographs, b/w b/w photographs & reproductions, 2007 240 pp. 6”x9” 2007 96 pp. 5.5”x8.5” reproductions, maps, tables maps, schematics b/w photographs, line drawings, maps ISBN: 9780889225817 $15.95 PA ISBN: 9781550545562 $19.99 PA ISBN: 9781894384636 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9781550172867 $24.95 PA talonbooks.com douglas-mcintyre.com heritagehouse.ca harbourpublishing.com

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The Bootlegger Breathing Stone Cape Dorset Charlie Muskrat Blues Contemporary Haida Argillite Sculpture Harold Johnson Sculpture Thistledown Press Drew Hayden Taylor Derek Norton & Fifth House Publishers Carol Sheehan Nigel Reading In this novel, we follow Charlie Jack Litrell & John W. Kenji Nagai Muskrat, an Aboriginal man from This dramatic comedy is about Heintz Douglas & McIntyre Saskatchewan, as he goes out love, lust, family and illegal alco- Frontenac House hunting for moose one day and hol. Set on a reserve, it follows ends up on an extended journey in Martha, a pillar of the community, his truck, Thunder. The journey is The book profiles—part biographi- The community of Cape Dorset, who has been unable to sell 143 both through Canada and through cally, but related to their Nunavut has gained international cases of beer for a church his memories. Along the way he art—fifteen exceptional artists who recognition for its graphics and fundraiser. She decides to bootleg meets up with Wesakicak, who is maintain the traditional Northwest sculptures. This book showcases the beer, to the dismay of her son trying to figure out what to do with Coast art form. With 200 colour seventy-one works of art from four Andrew, nicknamed Blue, the this half-Cree, half-Greek man photographs taken in artists’ work- generations of Inuit artists. The reserve’s special constable. Mean- once he dies. This engaging, shops, galleries, collectors’ homes collection was put together by the while, Andrew has fallen for a funny, somewhat surreal story and on-site in Haida Gwaii, Breath- Spirit Wrestler Gallery in collabo- young woman he thinks is his moves in and out of the ‘real’ ing Stone is informative, original ration with the West Baffin Eskimo cousin. His sister, Marianne, is world and the world of myth, with and systematically organized. Co-operative to honour the mas- bored with her “Indian Yuppie” various mythical and historical Inspirited by Haida master Bill ter artists of the early days of husband and finds herself people (from various cultures) Reid, the last twenty years have art-making in Cape Dorset. The attracted to a handsome powwow making appearances. The author seen the emergence of prolific new reproductions of the prints and dancer. The pace is rapid, even comes into the story to sculptors on Haida Gwaii. Through- sculptures are accompanied by energetic and vigorous in this explain some things to Charlie. out Breathing Stone, the Haida personal stories and insights on romantic situation comedy filled Johnson is a past winner of the artists display the commitment of the artist’s work. Themes of Arctic with raw humour, puns and irony. Saskatchewan Book Award. His their work and passion. For them, wildlife; life in the igloo, commu- Taylor, an Ojibway from previous books have been short- argillite sculpture is a source of nity and on the land; and the Ontario, has a successful career as listed for Aboriginal Book of the intense pride, a means of showing spiritual life of the Inuit are repre- a writer for stage and screen, has Year and Fiction Book of the Year, the world their rich culture. sented in these sculptures. The directed documentary films, and Anskohk Book Awards. Sheehan, the author of several introduction discusses the evolu- has written several books, many Caution: Contains swearing and books, is a recognized authority tion of the different art forms and plays and numerous articles. sexual content. on argillite sculpture. the artistic community of Cape Caution: Includes some swear- Dorset. Includes biographical ing, strong vulgarity and refer- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, notes on the artists. ences to sexual liaisons. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH TEACHER RESOURCE LANGUAGE ARTS OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2008 147 pp. 5.5”x8.5” ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 2008 191 pp. 9”x12” Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781897235447 $18.95 PA colour photographs, maps 2005 144 pp. 8.25”x10.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781897181218 $ 50.00 HC / b/w & colour photographs, thistledownpress.com 1991 98 pp. 5”x8” 9781897181225 $35.00 PA reproductions ISBN: 9780920079799 $11.95 PA ISBN: 9781553650881 $35.00 PA frontenachouse.com fifthhousepublishers.ca douglas-mcintyre.com

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Chief Smallboy The Chilliwacks and Cibou city treaty In Pursuit of Freedom Their Neighbors A Novel a long poem Gary Botting Oliver N. Wells Susan Young de Biagi Marvin Francis Fifth House Publishers Talonbooks Cape Breton University Turnstone Press Press This is a fascinating account of As a trusted neighbour, naturalist Technically a book-length poem, Chief Smallboy, a maverick Abo- and farmer, the author recorded This novel is the story of an outcast city treaty contains many pieces riginal leader at a time when conversations with Chilliwack named Mouse. Mouse is a that can stand on their own, passivity was common. The book friends in a cooperative effort to fictional young Mi’kmaw woman whether for analysis or as inspira- details Smallboy’s antecedents, preserve the Chilliwack culture who becomes friends with a Jesuit tion for writing projects. The poet his early life and how he grew up. and traditions. He is credited, for missionary, Anthony Daniel (a employs many elements that will In 1968 he led a small group of example, with reviving the Salish known historical figure who is be of special interest to students of Ermineskin Band natives near weaving techniques of the martyred and becomes a saint) Aboriginal heritage, especially his Hobema, Alberta to live in the community, which are now and his brother, Captain Charles focus on language that hearkens foothills of the Rockies away from famous throughout the world. Daniel who is trying to establish a back to oral tradition—for exam- technology, drugs, alcohol and the Together with articles, legends, French fishing a trading post in ple, the punning in “Lee Eegle destructive ways the young people photographs and interviews offer the Mi’kma’ki Territory in the sev- Eze” or in “BNA Actor”, a takeoff were finding. He dealt with many an intimate, thoughtful and enteenth century. Mouse earns on Hamlet’s speech to the skull of layers of government in order to informed introduction to the acceptance and status in her tribe Yorick. Wordplay is a key element help his people. As a result of his Chilliwacks and their neighbours. because of her ability to commu- in this book, as is the undercurrent dedication and resolve he was nicate with the French who are of wry humour. Spread through- awarded the Order of Canada. out like notes from Trickster, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 encroaching on the tribe’s Chief Smallboy worked with Bot- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL territory. Mouse eventually usually in headers or footers, ting on the biography and gave STUDIES becomes the wife of a widowed there’s an ongoing dialogue him personal photographs and young warrior. Both convert to between ‘clown’ and ‘me’. Some- scrapbooks that were destroyed in Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Daniel’s religion and go on to help times just an unanswered a fire before the memoir was pub- 1987 226 pp. 8”x10” their tribe coordinate the peace question, these lines lend b/w & archival photographs, maps lished; therefore this book treaty between many tribes and cohesion to this diverse grouping ISBN: 9780889222557 $24.95 PA includes copies of copies of photo- against the English. of work. The creative Drama graphs. talonbooks.com Biagi has written many books teacher may find a way to mount a Botting also works as a poet, and articles. Cibou is her first stage version of city treaty. legal scholar, journalist and play- novel. Caution: Includes references to wright. Caution: Includes some sexual Video Lottery Terminals and alco- content. hol; occasional coarse language is SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 included. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS 2005 236 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w photographs 2008 260 pp. 5.25”x8” Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781894856782 $24.95 PA ISBN: 978189700929 $19.95 PA 2002 69 pp. 5.5”x8.5” ISBN: 9780888012683 $12.95 PA fifthhousepublishers.ca cbupress.ca turnstonepress.com

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Coast Salish Essays Cree The Crooked Good The Dakota of the Wayne Suttles Language of the Plains Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Canadian Northwest Talonbooks Jean L. Okimasis Halfe Lessons for Survival Canadian Plains Research Coteau Books This volume is a substantial collec- Center Peter Douglas Elias tion of sixteen anthropological, Louise Halfe’s Cree name is Sky Canadian Plains Research archaeological and linguistic Dancer. In this book she has Centre papers on the Northwest Coast This textbook is a grammatical created a poetic narrative that com- Aboriginal cultures. The four sec- guide examining the intricacies of bines legend and history with tions cover a large variety of topics the Cree language as it relates to current reality. This blend makes a This book was first published as on the historic social systems, reli- the Plains dialect of Canada. The powerful mix. Halfe does not shy volume 5 in the Manitoba Studies gious beliefs, art, survival through thirty-three chapters include away from speaking bluntly about in Native History series. The book the European invasion and activities and exercises ranging such topics as abuse. She also uses describes the reasons why the prehistoric inferences. The book from the common noun, both ani- many Cree words as she weaves her Dakota left the United States in the dispels many inaccurate general- mate and inanimate, to the complex tale, and includes a three- 1860s and settled on the Canadian izations of the culture by transitive verb, both animate and page glossary of these at the back of prairies. It describes the economic developing a sophisticated under- inanimate. Practical examples of the book. Individual pieces could strategies each band used to sur- standing of Coast Salish economy, everyday words and phrases are serve as powerful read-alouds or be vive in their new homes. Some ecology, social structure, language expanded and defined; however, performed as interpretive pieces for decided to farm, others kept to and beliefs, and placing these cat- the author recommends a visit one or more voices. their traditional activities of hunt- egories within the wider with the Cree-speaking commu- Halfe served as Saskatchewan’s ing, fishing and gathering, while framework of comparison with nity to get a better appreciation for Poet Laureate in 2006 and 2007. others became cattle farmers or other Northwest Coast cultures. the colloquial and idiomatic She has won many awards includ- wage labourers. Included are This is a comprehensive introduc- nature of the language. The text- ing the Canadian People’s Poet excerpts of primary sources such tion for a study of the Northwest book includes Verb Charts, Award. She has been a finalist for as government documents and Coast Aboriginal understanding. Vocabulary (Cree to English/Eng- the Governor General’s Literary personal journals. Includes exten- Includes appendices. lish to Cree), and Verbs (Cree to Award and the Pat Lowther Award. sive endnotes. Suttles, a former teacher at the English/English to Cree). Caution: Reference is made to Caution: Throughout this book, University of British Columbia, Okimasis teaches Cree at the drinking and sexual abuse, as well the Dakota First Nations are presently works as a full time writer University of Regina and writes for as self-abusive and suicidal situa- referred to as Dakota Indians. and editor. a Cree newsletter. tions. Some negative references to Caution: The author frequently religion and the clergy appear in SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 uses “Indians”. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 the context of residential school OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LANGUAGE experience. STUDIES ARTS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 Index/Bibliography: Yes/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL Index/Bibliography: No/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 2002 262 pp. 6”x9” STUDIES 2004 208 pp. 6.75”x9.75” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH b/w photographs, reproductions, Index/Bibliography: No/Yes ISBN: 9780889771550 $24.95 PA LANGUAGE ARTS maps 1987 320 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 978889771352 $29.95 PA cprc.ca Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w photographs, graphs, maps, 2007 160 pp. 5.5”x8.5” cprc.ca tables ISBN: 9781550503722 $14.95 PA ISBN: 9780889222120 $19.95 PA coteaubooks.com talonbooks.com

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Darrell Dennis Daughters of Deadly Loyalties The Diary of Two Plays: Tales of an Urban Copper Woman Jennifer Storm Abraham Ulrikab Indian & The Trickster of Theytus Books Anne Cameron Text and Context Third Avenue East Harbour Publishing A remarkable achievement for its Hartmut Lutz, ed. Darrell Dennis fourteen-year-old author, Deadly Hans-Ludwig Blohm Playwrights Canada Press Anne Cameron was taught the Loyalties tells the story of fourteen- nineteen Northwest coast Aborigi- year-old Blaise, who sees her University of Ottawa Press nal myths published in this book childhood friend Sheldon Dennis is a young Shuswap. The by the elder women of the Nuu- murdered by gang members. Based on the translated diary of semi-autobiographical play Tales chah-nulth Nation. They range Scared they know she is a witness, Abraham Ulrikab, this book tells of of an Urban Indian investigates from stories of First Woman who she joins Sheldon’s gang for protec- the 1880 exhibition of Inuit people the factors that lead a young Abo- was made from the earth and tion. Blaise has a desperate need to in Europe. Ulrikab and seven other riginal man down a path of called Copper Woman, to stories belong, so fighting, having sex, get- Inuit men, women and children self-destruction. With gut- of girl children taken to schools by ting high, shoplifting and “jacking” from Labrador agreed to travel to wrenchingly honest humour, priests, to stories of the Spanish (stealing money from other kids) Germany with Adrian Jakobsen, a Dennis portrays Simon Douglas as Keestadores who were here before gives her a “confused sense of guilt Norwegian ethnographer, who put he stumbles through childhood Captain Cook. The first edition of and pride”. When she unknowingly them on display at Germany’s and adolescence, learning life les- this book was published in 1981 dates a rival gang member, and her Hagenbeck Zoo. The Inuit “acted sons the hard way. The play’s and sold over 200,000 copies in gang seeks revenge, Blaise finds out” their way of life for “civilized” message is to make the best possi- many languages. This new edition herself living with Sheldon’s mur- Europeans who viewed them as ble choices, not to be a victim and includes both fresh material and derer. This book will appeal to primitive and hedonistic beings. to learn from mistakes. The Trick- material that was cut from the reluctant readers. Five months after arrival, all eight ster of Third Avenue continues the original. Storm, an Ojibway from the Inuit had died from smallpox. theme of choice. Here the Trick- Anne Cameron won seven Couchiching First Nation in Translated European newspaper ster spirit visits Roger and Mary, a Canadian Film Awards for her Northwestern Ontario, is currently clippings, letters written by the young Aboriginal couple living in 1979 film Dreamspeaker as well as enrolled in the First Nations Stud- missionaries who had known the big city. They are struggling to the Gibson Award for Literature ies Program at the University of Ulrikab and his family, and the make ends meet and make their for the novel Dreamspeaker. Manitoba in Winnipeg. She won diary entries of Jakobsen corrobo- relationship work. Caution: The myths contain sto- the Manitoba Aboriginal Youth rate the events recounted. Tales of an Urban Indian was ries of rape and murder and are Achievement Award. Lutz is chair of the American and nominated for a Dora Mavor for mature readers Caution: Includes violence, Canadian Studies at the University Moore award. swearing, and references to drugs, of Greifswald in Germany. Caution: Coarse language and alcohol and sex. mature subject matter. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-11 LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No LANGUAGE ARTS LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS, 2002 200 pp. 5.25”x7.5” Index/Bibliography: No/Yes HEALTH & CAREER EDUCATION ISBN: 9781550172454 $19.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No 2005 132 pp. 8”x8” 2007 160 pp. 5”x8” b/w photographs, line drawings, Index/Bibliography: No/No harbourpublishing.com ISBN: 9781894778398 $16.95 PA sketches, maps & reproductions of 2005 136 pp. 5.5”x8.5” original documents ISBN: 9780887547720 $17.95 PA theytusbooks.ca ISBN: 9780776606026 $29.95 PA

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Dreary and Izzy Dry Lips Oughta Earth Elder Stories Edmonton Tara Beagan Move to The Pinayzitt Path In Our Own Words Playwrights Canada Press Kapuskasing Alexander Wolfe Linda Goyette & Carolina Fifth House Publishers Jakeway Roemmich This play takes place just after the funeral of the parents of the title Tomson Highway University of Alberta Press characters. Deirdre (Dreary) and Fifth House Publishers Alexander Wolfe, a Saulteaux/ Isabelle (Izzy) are adult sisters, Ojibwa storyteller, felt it was Published to celebrate Edmonton, one of whom (Izzy) is an adopted This powerful and complex play important to put the stories of the Alberta’s centennial in 2004, this Aboriginal person with severe focuses on the lives of seven Pinayzitt family history, normally is an ambitious and sprawling his- FASD. Dreary was about to start “Wasy” men living on the Wasay- told in the oral tradition, into writ- tory that explores Alberta’s social, university but must now stay chiga Hill Indian Reserve on ing as a way to keep the stories political and economic develop- home to take care of Izzy. Freddie Manitoulin Island, and the game alive. The stories, passed down ment over a period of 11,000 years. Seven Horses, a vacuum cleaner of hockey.We watch these men through generations, are of the Sections explore various tribal salesman, shows up at the door cope with their reality in a domi- descendants of Pinayzitt, leader of groups, such as the Blackfoot and and Dreary ends up getting nant white society. The playwright the Saulteaux tribe, whose people Cree, who regularly traveled involved with him. His arrival candidly presents some of the continue to live in the regions of through Edmonton’s river valley brings up issues for Dreary that serious social issues facing Abo- Manitoba, Saskatchewan and hunting, gathering and trading. she has never really thought about riginal communities: alcoholism, North Dakota. Prefaced by expla- Ooil and gas extraction from before, such as adoption of Abo- fetal alcohol syndrome and a nations of their historical Leduc helped transform Edmon- riginal children by non-Aboriginal sense of identity. Life often seems importance, each story tells of a ton into the vibrant city it is today. families and how that can affect futile for them but through their significant event that affected the Each section of the book begins them. Freddie’s presence also trig- bond of friendship and their abil- tribe, starting from a time pre-dat- with a commentary of the time gers some sexual acting-out by ity to find humour in their daily ing encounters with white settlers period, but Edmonton’s story is Izzy, which is misconstrued as lives, they prove resilient even in up to and including stories that tell told largely through first-person Freddie sexually abusing her. The the face of tragedy. Cree and of treaty signing and the establish- accounts in diaries, letters and play deals with the issues in an Ojibwy are used throughout. ment of Reserves. A preface memoirs from people of various interesting, realistic way and This play won the Dora Mavor explains the importance of keep- backgrounds who shared a special shows a sister compassionately Moore Award for Best New Play ing the oral tradition of connection with the city. dealing with a disabled sibling. and was nominated for the Gover- storytelling alive for future genera- This title won the Alberta Book Beagan is a past recipient of the nor General’s Literary Award. tions. Awards, Author’s Award and the Dora Mavor Moore Award. Caution: Contains coarse lan- Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Caution: Includes some coarse guage and accounts of violence SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 Year in 2005. language. against women. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 1988 105 pp. 5.5”x8.5” STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS, b/w line drawings, a hand-drawn Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes HEALTH & CAREER EDUCATION map, and a Pinayzitt family tree Index/Bibliography: No/No 2004 504 pp. 7”x10” ISBN: 978920079355 $14.95 PA 2006 104 pp. 5.25”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w photographs, maps ISBN: 9780887546129 $17.95 PA 1989 136 pp. 5.5”x8.5” fifthhousepublishers.ca ISBN: 9780888644497 $39.95 PA ISBN: 9780920079553 $12.95 PA playwrightscanada.com uap.ualberta.ca fifthhousepublishers.ca

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Ernestine Shuswap Explorations in the Finding My Talk Firekeepers of the Gets Her Trout Interior of the How Fourteen Native Women Twenty-First Century A “String Quartet” for Four Reclaimed Their Lives after First Nations Women Chiefs Labrador Peninsula Residential School Female Actors Cora J. Voyageur Henry Youle Hind Agnes Grant Tomson Highway McGill-Queen’s University Boulder Publications Fifth House Publishers Talonbooks Press This two-volume, comprehensive This book contains the stories of book describes the topography, The 1951 revisions to the Indian Act This play takes place on the eve of a twelve Aboriginal women who are natural resources and inhabitants paved the way for women to offi- visit to BC’s Thompson River area residential school survivors as well of the Labrador Peninsula in 1861. cially become involved in reserve by Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910. It is as two women who didn’t go to Beautifully illustrated with hand- politics. The purpose of this book the story of how the local Aborigi- residential school, but who were drawn pictures and colour is to give female chiefs the oppor- nals lost their hunting, fishing, land still affected by it. It tells of their pictures, the author explains the tunity to tell their own stories. and language rights as told from residential school experiences as terrain and offers opinions on Voyageur, a Dene woman who the point of view of four local well as their lives afterward. The everything from the state of the teaches at the University of women. The play is both comic and author has deliberately chosen to Atlantic fisheries, to the Calgary, presents portraits of sixty- tragic which is conveyed using the tell the stories of successful profes- government’s handling of mineral four women who have been English equivalent of the ‘Trickster’ sional women who, despite their deposits. The reader is able to gain elected chiefs. Voyageur analyses aspects of the Shuswap language. negative residential school experi- an understanding of the living what inspired them, how they The play includes much of the text ences (or perhaps partly because conditions, hardships and ill treat- determined their priorities, and of a document authored by the of them) have gone on to have ment endured by the Aboriginal the costs and rewards involved in fourteen chiefs of the Shuswap, successful careers. Many of them people during this period. their positions. This book provides Okanagan and Couteau tribes, now work helping other Aborigi- Hind was the first editor of an historical perspective of the which outlines their concerns nal people. As the introduction Canadian Journal: a Repertory of Indian Act and the issues that about what is happening to their states: “The stories in this book Industry, Science and Art and Aboriginals struggle with, statisti- people. attest to the fact that there is life wrote numerous articles about cal tables and a glossary of terms. Highway has won the Dora after residential school, and that Canada in the mid-1850s. This book is McGill-Queen’s Mavor Moore Award as well as the life can be good”. This emphasizes Caution: Includes many refer- Native and Northern Series: 51. Chalmers Award. He is a member the women’s strength and . ences to Aboriginal peoples as of the Order of Canada resilience. Caution: “Indians”. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 Includes some coarse Caution: Abuse is discussed. language and sexual innuendo/ OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH double entendres. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH CAREER EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUD- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL LANGUAGE ARTS IES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS Index/Bibliography: No/No 2007 600 pp. 5.5”x8.5” 2008 192 pp. 6”x9” 2004 212 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9780773532168 $70.00 HC / Index/Bibliography: No/No colour illustrations ISBN: 9781894856577 $19.95 PA 9780773532175 $24.95 PA 2005 93 pp. 5.5”x8.5” ISBN: 9780978338107 $29.95 PA ISBN: 9780889225251 $15.95 PA fifthhousepublishers.ca boulderpublications.ca mqup.mcgill.ca talonbooks.com

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Flight of the For Future Funny Little Stories Gabriel Dumont Hummingbird Generations Memoir 1 Mémoires/Memoirs A Parable for the Environment Reconciling Gitxsan and Arok Wolvengrey, ed. Denis Combet, ed. Canadian Law Canadian Plains Research Lise Gaboury-Diallo, trans. Michael Nicoll Center Éditions du Blé Yahgulanaas P. Dawn Mills Greystone Books Purich Publishing This book is the first in the series Gabriel Dumont commanded the First Nations Language Readers. Métis in the North West Rebellion The hummingbird parable, with This work, based on court This reader of nature studies rep- of 1885. After trying peaceful origins in the Quechuan people of transcripts, personal research and resents a number of stories in a means for many years to pressure South America and the Haida of materials from the Gitxsan Heredi- wide variety of Cree dialects. the Canadian authorities to pay the North Pacific, has become a tary Chiefs’ office, argues that Divided into two sections, the first attention to the troubles of the mascot for environmentalists and Gitxsan and Canadian law can be part offers a collection of stories Métis, in 1884 Dumont helped ecologists. The determined hum- brought together in conciliatory from a number of Cree sources, entice Louis Riel to return from mingbird does everything she can actions. The book presents a the second part offers the English the US. They led a military upris- to put out a raging fire that threat- model for collaborative land use translation plus information on ing against the Canadian ens her forest home. The between the Crown and Aboriginal the origin of the story. The nine government. After winning several hummingbird—a symbol of wis- peoples. The relationship of the stories include three based on battles, the Métis lost a definitive dom and courage—demonstrates Gitxsan to their land and commu- wordplay jokes, the next three are battle at Batoche. This is the per- that doing something, no matter nity is described, as are court cases humorous accounts of life experi- sonal story of Gabriel Dumont, as how small, is better than doing and decisions related to their fight ences, and the last three are dictated in 1902–3 by Dumont to nothing at all. Wangari Maathai, to prove and secure Aboriginal stories of the trickster hero. Also an unknown scribe. Dumont dis- the Nobel Peace Prize winner from land rights and self-government. included are a table of contents, a cusses his personal life and shares Kenya who launched the Green Mills argues for using oral Cree-English glossary, syllabaries first-hand accounts of important Belt Movement, and His Holiness traditions as evidence. A chrono- and bibliographical references. events in Canadian history. The the Dalai Lama embrace the para- logical account from 1795 recorder adds his personal point ble. highlights legal tensions, land SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 of view and refers to military Yahgulanaas developed a new questions, reserves and court chal- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LANGUAGE reports from General Frederick art genre, Haida Manga. He is an lenges. A glossary of terms is ARTS Middleton of the Canadian forces. activist for social justice issues on French and English versions are included. Index/Bibliography: No/No his home islands of Haida Gwaii. contained in this one book. Mills holds a PhD in Native Law, 2007 110 pp. 5.5”x8.5” History and Anthropology from Copyrights. line drawings SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 UBC Faculty of Law. ISBN: 9780889771857 $12.95 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: BC FIRST OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL NATIONS STUDIES 12, ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 cprc.ca STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, GEOGRAPHY 12, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LAW 12, SCIENCES Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SOCIAL STUDIES 2006 240 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes b/w photographs, maps 2008 64 pp. 5.25”x8.25” 2008 192 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9782921347914 $24.95 PA colour illustrations ISBN: 9781895830347 $32.00 PA ISBN: 9781553653721 $16.00 HC ble.recf.ca purichpublishing.com greystonebooks.com

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Gabriel Dumont The Geography of The Government Grizzlies & in Paris Memory and Politics of White Guys A Novel History Recovering Stories of a the Alberta Métis The Stories of Clayton Mack Landscape’s First People Jordan Zinovich Settlements Harvey Thommasen, ed. University of Alberta Press Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Alistair Anderson Sono Nis Press, dist. T. C. Pocklington Harbour Publishing Through letters, songs, poetry, Canadian Plains Research prayers and pictures, this book is The Sinixt are the original inhabi- Center Here are the reminiscences of a an historical fictionalized account tants of BC’s Arrow Lakes region. Clayton Mack, Nuxalk (Bella of Gabriel Dumont’s life leading Devastated by disease, dislodged In northern Alberta, eight Métis Coola) Nation Chief, who made up to and including the Battle of by Europeans, and relocated by settlements, with a combined area his living as a guide for grizzly bear Batoche during the North-West dams that flooded their villages of 1,250,000 acres, constitute the hunters. The stories are taken ver- Rebellion. Autobiographical in and burial sites, they received an only shared Métis land base in batim from tape recorded sessions nature, it explores his life as the ultimate insult when declared Canada. This is the first study with Dr. Harvey Thommasen, his author envisioned he would have “extinct” by the Canadian govern- examining the contemporary poli- family physician, while Mack was lived. The book describes Gabriel ment in 1956. Yet they have tics of a Canadian Aboriginal in hospital. The book is intended Dumont’s inner thoughts and maintained close spiritual and collectivity. It makes extensive use to preserve the oral history of a feelings as he led the Métis people cultural connections to their of records derived from interviews Canadian Aboriginal man. These on the central plains of Canada native soil. Pearkes traces the with Métis politicians, their con- unromanticized accounts of hunt- during the last half of the 19th cen- complicated geography of the stituents and government officials ing, the Northern forests and tury and recounts how he was West Kootenay and the story of the and presents an alternative Aboriginal life tell of a wilderness instrumental in bringing Louis Sinixt. With the help of contempo- approach to the issue of Aborigi- that was disappearing then, and is Riel back to Canada in his quest to rary Sinixt people, Pearkes nal self-government. Although the now largely gone, as are many of have the Canadian government researched their history and cul- content is primarily Albertan, the the attitudes portrayed. Indeed recognize the Métis land claims. ture. implications apply to all of the ambitions of the trophy hunter Zinovich also wrote Battling the Pearkes has published numer- Canada. Numerous tables clarify of that era to kill the largest Bay and Prospector North, histori- ous essays exploring the the data. The book contains exten- animal, or the taking satisfaction cal biographies set in the western connection between nature and sive chapter notes. in the painful death of animals North. the human imagination. Pocklington is a political scien- would be considered offensive by Caution: Includes some coarse tist and author of numerous many today. One chapter offers language. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 books. insights into the Sasquatch from OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: GEOGRA- an Aboriginal perspective. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 PHY 12, SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes STUDIES, TEACHER RESOURCE OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SCIENCES, 2002 96 pp. 6”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: No/No SOCIAL STUDIES b/w reproductions, charts, colour Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 1999 200 pp. 5.25”x9” photographs, line drawings, maps, 1991 162 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: Yes/No ISBN: 9780888643216 $16.95 PA timelines tables 1993 240 pp. 6”x9” uap.ualberta.ca ISBN: 9780973122206 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9780889770607 $26.00 PA b/w photographs, line drawings, maps ISBN: 9781550171402 $24.95 PA sononis.com cprc.ca harbourpublishing.com

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Head-Smashed-In Honoré Jaxon Imagining Head- In a World Created Buffalo Jump Prairie Visionary Smashed-In by a Drunken God Gordon Reid Donald B. Smith Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on Drew Hayden Taylor Fifth House Publishers Coteau Books the Northern Plains Talonbooks

Located in Alberta, Head- W. H. Jackson, aka Honoré Jaxon, Jack W. Brink In this play, Jason Pierce packs up Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a was the secretary of Louis Riel Athabasca University Press his belongings in Toronto to move World Heritage Site steeped in during the 1885 Resistance. Here is back to the reserve where he grew Aboriginal history and tradition. an intriguing account of his fasci- Brink uses his background in up. He is interrupted by an Ameri- There is archaeological evidence nating and tragic life. His archaeology and his intimate can man, Harry Dieter, claiming to that the buffalo jump was part of upbringing in Ontario as an knowledge of Blackfoot cultural be his half-brother. Harry’s father Aboriginal life for over 10,000 Anglo-Saxon Methodist, history, and adds in well- is in need of a kidney transplant years and that Head-Smashed-In education at the University of researched information on bison and Harry has come to convince was used until 150 years ago. In Toronto and subsequent move to and historical accounts of the Jason to be tested. Harry is this copiously illustrated book, the the Northwest form the ironic great buffalo hunts, to create a pic- wrestling with the knowledge that author addresses the interaction/ background of an historic life and ture of how and why Head- his father had an affair that connection between the buffalo career, with name change and Smashed -In Buffalo Jump became produced a child thirty-two years and Aboriginal people, myths and pretense of Métis origins. His so important. Beautifully ago, while Jason is trying to re- ritual associated with the buffalo defense of and belief in the Métis illustrated, the book explains in imagine a father who is not the and the hunt, the strategy of the cause from 1885 through to the lat- detail the various ways Aboriginal uncaring man he has always hunt, discoveries at the ter part of his life as well as his people relied on the buffalo and thought, but a loving family fan. excavations, and the jump site attraction to and support of leftist how the great buffalo jumps were Taylor has won numerous today as an interpretive centre and and anarchist endeavours are used. The attractive format makes awards including the British museum. Photographs and draw- chronicled in a captivating the information in this book very Columbia Millennium Award ings complement the text. account of his journey. accessible. 2000 for Furious Adventures of a Includes a glossary. With this book, Smith, a profes- In 1981, Head-Smashed-In Buf- Blue-eyed Ojibway and Outstand- sor of Canadian History, com pletes Reid also wrote Dinosaur falo Jump was listed as a UNESCO ing Achievement in Literary Works Provincial Park. his trilogy of three persons who World Heritage site. Brink is Cura- 2008 First Americans in the Arts, claimed a heritage that they did not tor of Archaeology at the Royal for Me Funny. In a World Created have—Grey Owl, Long Lance and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-10 Alberta Museum. by a Drunken God was nominated OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL Honoré Jaxon. for a Governor General’s Literary STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, Award in 2006. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 TEACHER REFERENCE Caution: Use of profanity. Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL 2002 48 pp. 8”x8” STUDIES STUDIES b/w & colour photographs & SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH illustrations, reproductions, line Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS drawings, map 2007 272 pp. 6”x9” 2008 360 pp. 6.5”x9.25” b/w photographs, line drawings ISBN: 9781894004831 $12.95 PA b/w & colour photographs, colour Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781550503678 $21.95 PA reproductions, line drawings fifthhousepublishers.ca 2006 128 pp. 5.5”x8.5” coteaubooks.com ISBN: 9781897425008 $85.00 HC / ISBN: 9780889225374 $16.95 PA 9781897425046 $35.95 PA talonbooks.com aupress.ca

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In Order to Live Indian Myths & Indigenous Initiations Untroubled Legends from the Storywork A Selection of Young Native Inuit of the Central Arctic, North Pacific Coast Educating the Heart, Mind, Writings 1550–1940 Body, and Spirit Marilyn Dumont, ed. of America Theytus Books Renée Fossett Jo-ann Archibald Franz Boaz University of Manitoba UBC Press In many Aboriginal cultures, the Press Randy Douchard & Dorothy elders teach the young the ancient Kennedy, eds. & annots. This book explores the idea and traditions and skills. An initiation Composing a history of an Arctic Dietrich Bertz, trans. function of storytelling in Aborigi- ceremony formalized the new people from the 16th century to Talonbooks nal culture. It specifically looks at positions gained or earned, so that the early 20th century poses a the stories and storytelling culture the youth may take their place of the Coast Salish of British within the circle of wisdom and unique set of challenges. Using This book is a readable and Columbia. This resource is partic- tradition. Honouring this spirit, scarce written records, scientific informative translation of Boas’ ularly useful for teachers wanting Initiations is a collection of twenty- analysis and oral histories sources, major work on approximately 218 to know more about traditional one stories by young Aboriginal the author explores topics includ- Aboriginal myths and legends as Aboriginal storytelling and the writers who have earned a place in ing the rationale for warfare, recorded by him. Claude Levi- role of storytelling and storytellers the circle. These are young voices effects of resource scarcity/abun- Strauss introduces the work. in Aboriginal cultures. Included is telling their own stories as well as dance, migration and effects of Erudite research, annotations and a chapter on how the author took the stories of their grandparents. climate change. A major focus illustrations provide a window part in developing an elementary Their stories speak of survival and explains changes over time in the into the beliefs, values and world- curriculum that incorporated tra- life from their perspective. The Inuit past before they lost control view of many of BC’s Aboriginal ditional storytelling. The book was book offers a model for all students over their decision-making to set- people at the end of the last cen- written to describe the author’s of any cultural background to write tler communities and tury. A section is included on the research into storytelling as part of their own stories. government. Fossett discusses development of these myth - her work with the Native Indian Award-winning Dumont is a what history is and appendices ologies. A helpful appendix lists Teacher Education Program at Canadian poet of Cree/Métis examine how peoples are named the stories presented in each of the UBC but does contain a lot of use- descent. and the controversial concepts of sections. ful information for teachers Caution: Several stories contain infanticide/gerontocide. This translation is the work of the wishing to incorporate Aboriginal references to physical abuse, rape Fossett has a PhD in History BC Indian Language Project. from the University of Manitoba. storytelling into their teaching. and fighting. Includes mild swearing. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: TEACHER SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2002 702 pp. 7”x10” Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No 2001 356 pp. 6”x9” b/w photographs, line drawing, map 2008 192 pp. 6”x9” 2007 104 pp. 5.5”x8.5” b/w photographs & illustrations, maps ISBN: 9780889225534 $39.95 PA ISBN: 9780887551718 $55.00 HC / ISBN: 9780774814010 $85.00 HC / ISBN: 9781894778473 $16.95 PA 9780887556477 $24.95 PA talonbooks.com 9780774814027 $29.95 PA theytusbooks.ca umanitoba.ca/uofmpress ubcpress.ca

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Inside Out Inuit Women Artists Iskwewak It’s Like the Legend An Autobiography Voices from Cape Dorset Kah’ Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak/ Innu Women’s Voices of a Native Canadian Odette Leroux, Marion E. Neither Indian Princesses Nor Nympha Byrne & James Tyman Jackson & Minnie Aodla Easy Squaws Camille Fouillard, eds. Fifth House Publishers Freeman, eds. Janice Acoose/ Canadian Scholars’ Press Douglas & McIntyre Misko-Kìsikàwihkwè Twenty-eight women contributed Inside Out is a powerful personal (Red Sky Woman) Inuit Women stories to create this first book of reflection describing the First released in 1994, Canadian Scholars’ Press hardships of a young Aboriginal Artists examines the art of nine Innu stories by Innu women from Canadian’s life. At the age of four, female artists from Cape Dorset, Labrador. The compilation Tyman was adopted into a white NWT. The art of Pitseolak Ashoona, This scholarly book examines the includes memoirs, legends, jour- family, completely unfamiliar to Lucy Qinnuyuak, Kenojuak Ashe- stereotypes and misrepresent - nals, poetry, essays, speeches and him. With vague memories of his vak, Qaunak Mikkigak, Napachie ations of Aboriginal women in testimonies. The tales tell of life biological family, he attempts to Pootoogook, Pitaloosie Saila, Canadian literature. These images before and after Innu community adapt and adjust. He endures Oopik Pitsiulak, Mayoreak are often unrealistic and promote settlement, of education, civil dis- years of turmoil and becomes self- Ashoona and Ovilu Tunnillie is racism and prejudice. Acoose out- obedience, addiction treatment destructive while he searches for highlighted. Each woman’s lines the dangers that exist when services in the healing movement, acceptance. His life is turned artwork, which include graphics, non-Aboriginal writers write and of modern encroachments on inside out, and is filled with rage, sculpture and jewelry, is presented about Aboriginal characters. She Innu land such as nickel mining, anger and loss of identity. and described. A biography and exposes the works of literature clear-cutting of forests and hydro- Caution: Includes strong lan- artist’s discussion of their works that treat Aboriginal women in a electric development. The editors guage and graphic content. also accompany the reproductions. derogatory way and the effect it hope the book “will serve as a A glossary is included. may have on the reader. She offers bridge between the Innu and the SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 Leroux is the former curator of a powerful antidote to the outside world”. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Contemporary Inuit Art at the influence of negative literary Byrne is a Mushuau Innu from LANGUAGE ARTS Canadian Museum of Civilization. images in shaping collective Utshimassits and Fouillard is a Jackson’s previous books include thought. French-Canadian woman who Index/Bibliography: No/No Contemporary Inuit Drawings and Acoose is an Associate Professor lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. 1995 230 pp. 4.25”x7” Qamanittuaq: Drawings by Baker with the Saskatchewan Indian ISBN: 9781895618587 $7.95 PA Lake Artists. Freeman was an Federated College. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 fifthhousepublishers.ca assistant editor of Inuit Today Caution: Some of the personal OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL Magazine and is the author of Life accounts are sexually violent. STUDIES among the Qallunaat. Index/Bibliography: No/No SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12, 2000 296 pp. 5.5”x8.5” TEACHER RESOURCE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 ISBN: 9780921881568 $24.95 PA OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES cspi.org Index/Bibliography: No/Yes 1994 256 pp. 9.5”x10.5” Index/Bibliography: No/Yes b/w & colour reproductions, map 1995 136 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9781550544701 $45.00 PA ISBN: 9780889612099 $24.95 PA

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Landing Native Legends of the The Lesser Blessed Let Right Be Done Fisheries Omushkigowak Richard Van Camp Aboriginal Title, the Calder Indian Reserves and Fishing An Omushkigo First Nations Douglas & McIntyre Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights Rights in British Columbia, Elder Tells Stories of the People In this novel, a sixteen-year-old 1849–1925 of the Muskeg Dogrib boy develops a friendship Hamar Foster, Heather with a tough Métis boy, connects Raven & Jeremy Webber, Douglas C. Harris Louis Bird Pennishish with the girl of his dreams, and eds. UBC Press Goose Lane Editions navigates past the threats of bullies and drugs. By creating characters UBC Press from three segments that are per- This jargon-free book explores the This is a set of three audio CDs of petually on the margins of This collection of essays historical connection between Pennishish (Louis Bird), an Elder Canadian society: Aboriginal, far commemorates the thirtieth reserve locations and fisheries in of the Omushkigo First Nation, north and non-conforming teens, anniversary of Calder v. Attorney BC from 1850, and its effect on telling stories of his people. Pen- the reader enters into their world of General of British Columbia, a colonial land policy and on the nishish includes an explanation of intolerances, violence, loss and risk landmark Supreme Court of law governing the fisheries. The the various types of stories told by taking. There are many links with Canada decision (1973) concern- contradictions between an Indian the Omushkigowak, the roles of inner city culture such as rock and ing Aboriginal land title. The case land policy based on access to fish these stories and ways in which roll, recreational drug and alcohol was launched on behalf of the Nis- and a government program of some of the meanings have com- abuse, family disintegration, inner ga’a and established that fisheries management opening monly been misinterpreted in city hardship and the inability of Aboriginal title was a right that can the resource to newcomers, are English. It includes information educational institutions to have a and should be protected by Cana- revealed. The historical basis of about their uses and cultural positive impact. dian law. These scholarly essays the Indian food fishery is consid- importance and explanations of Van Camp is the author of the examine the history of Native land ered in this context. Maps, some elements of Omushkihowak many children’s books and a col- claims in BC along with the Calder photographs, and tables assist the culture. The CDs are valuable for lection of short stories, Angel Wing case’s legal and political ramifica- reader in assessing the geographi- allowing students to hear stories Splash Pattern. tions, and review what has cal and historical basis for the and associated information in the Caution: Explicit descriptions of happened to Aboriginal title since. various claims and entitlements. voice of one of the people who sexual and physical abuse, rape, The authors are all professors of Harris is a member of the would traditionally tell the stories. drug and alcohol abuse, violence, Law at the University of Victoria. Faculty of Law at the University of This CD set is part of the and sex. Coarse language used British Columbia. StorySave: Voices of Canada’s Sto- throughout. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 rytellers series. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LAW, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, Caution: Includes a discussion SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SOCIAL STUDIES POST SECONDARY of a type of traditional story OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LAW, involving sexual jokes. Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & SOCIAL STUDIES 2007 352 pp. 6”x9” CAREER EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUD- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 b/w photographs Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes IES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH ISBN: 9780774814034 $90.00 HC / 2008 256 pp. 6”x9” LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: No/No 9780774814041 $32.95 PA b/w photographs, maps 1996 128 pp. 5.5”x8.5” ISBN: 9780774814195 $85.00 HC / ubcpress.ubc.ca Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9781550545258 $18.00 PA 9780774814201 $32.95 PA 2005 24 pp. 5.5”x5” ISBN: 9780973739703 $30.00 CD douglas-mcintyre.com ubcpress.ca gooselane.com

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Litigating Aboriginal A Long and The Lord’s Distant Makúk Culture Terrible Shadow Vineyard A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations Joseph Eliot Magnet White Values, Native Rights A History of the Oblates and Juriliber Limited in the Americas since 1492 the Catholic Community in John Sutton Lutz British Columbia UBC Press This book documents legal issues Thomas R. Berger related to various “claims for Douglas & McIntyre Vincent J. McNally In this book, the author puts injury to Aboriginal culture” University of Alberta Press forward the argument that many of between Aboriginal peoples of This book chronicles the struggles the current problems between Canada and the Crown. In that Aboriginal societies of the While The Lord’s Distant Vineyard Canada’s Aboriginal people and detailed, but clear, presentations Americas have had since the intro- provides a comprehensive history the non-Aboriginal government of more than 100 cases from 1703 duction of the “white man” in of the Catholic Church in BC and can be traced back to differences to 2005 in Canadian law, Magnet 1492. Beginning with a description more particularly the role of the in the understanding of the provides an account of the wrongs of the annihilation of the Aztecs by Oblates in this history, the most languages used throughout con- perpetrated on Aboriginal peoples the conquistadors, the author pertinent parts of the book deal tact times and differences in the and matters of redress and com- travels to North and South Amer- with aspects of residential schools. meaning of exchanges between pensation. Among the cases ica in a chronological fashion to The original intention, as well as settlers and Aboriginal peoples. He presented are the Exxon Valdes, discuss how various countries the distortion and deviation from looks at Aboriginal involvement in Degalmuukw vs BC, cases against have mistreated their indigenous this, is described. McNally’s the economy and the different val- Departments of Education, and people with respect to their land account, as well as being a uations put on work by Aboriginal minority language educational and sovereignty. He argues that it reasoned and researched critique, and non-Aboriginal peoples rights. The role of treaties in estab- is not that the governments of the provides a timely “insiders” throughout Canada’s history. He lishing cultural damage claims, “New World” did not believe that assessment of this topic. contends that the widespread breaches of contractual and statu- Natural Law should prevail and Caution: References to First unemployment of Canadian Abo- tory rights and obligations, and that every man has inherent Nations and Aboriginal peoples riginal people arose during the redress for historical wrongs rights, it is that they did not have as “noble savages” occur in his- 1950s because of government pol- under the Constitution, is the desire or fortitude to enforce torical context. icy decisions. Includes graphs, presented. A major topic is that of what is essentially not theirs. charts and maps. residential schools and the intent Berger is a lawyer in BC. He is Lutz is a professor of History at SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 to assimilate Aboriginal persons also the author of several books. the University of Victoria and OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL into non-Aboriginal culture. Caution: Aboriginal people are author of Myth and Memory. STUDIES Magnet is a Professor of Law at referred to as “Indians”. the University of Ottawa. Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 2000 472 pp. 6”x9” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: COMPARA- b/w photographs, maps STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LAW 12, TIVE CIVILIZATIONS, SOCIAL STUD- ISBN: 9780888643469 $34.95 PA Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SOCIAL STUDIES IES uap.ualberta.ca 2008 448 pp. 8”x10” Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/No b/w & archival photographs, line 2005 216 pp. 6.25”x9.25” 1999 185 pp. 6”x9” drawings, maps ISBN: 9780919311534 $95.00 HC ISBN: 9780295978079 $22.95 PA ISBN: 9780774811392 $85.00 HC / 9780774811408 $34.95 PA juriliber.com douglas-mcintyre.com ubcpress.ca

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Morningstar Myth & Memory A National Crime Natives & Settlers, A Warrior’s Spirit Stories of Indigenous-European The Canadian Government and Now & Then Morningstar Mercredi Contact the Residential School System, Historical Issues and Current Coteau Books John Sutton Lutz, ed. 1879 to 1986 Perspectives on Treaties and UBC Press John S. Milloy Morningstar Land Claims in Canada is a no-holds barred University of Manitoba autobiography of Morningstar Nine essays make up this collec- Press Paul W. DePasquale, ed. Mercredi, a Métis born in tion of writings on Indigenous- University of Alberta Press Uranium City, Saskatchewan. European contact. In these stories Mercredi pulls no punches as she the authors speak of the “contact This book details the neglect and describes the abject poverty and abuse that children suffered within This book presents five essays that zone”, commonly called First reinterpret and assess the treaty neglect she suffered as a child, as Contact. Indigenous cultures from Indian Residential Schools. It well as the sexual abuse by her argues that the Canadian Govern- making and land claims of Aborigi- around the world are considered, nal peoples. Past claims, as well as stepfather that began at the age of from New Zealand, North America ment was fully informed and so five. As she grew older, her poor legally responsible. As a researcher present negotiations, are examined and Africa. The majority of the sto- and evaluated. Among the topics self-worth led to alcohol and drug ries deal with the Aboriginal with the Royal Commission on abuse. However, out of these Aboriginal Peoples, investigating presented are the meeting of peoples of Canada. This book is a diverse Aboriginal groups with set- tragic beginnings, a strong young re-analysis of both European and the mistreatment of Aboriginals, woman in touch with her Aborigi- the author had access to the files of tlers, indigenous points of view indigenous contact narratives, all around treaty making, the myths nal roots emerges. containing well-chosen primary Indian and Northern Affairs Mercredi is a poet, author, story- Canada not available to others. related to treaties and reserves, source information. The power treaty rights, the 1994 land claim of teller, social activist and actress. structures, not only of today, but This book makes evident that the Fort the Métis of northwest Her non-fiction work, those that influenced the past, are residential school system was “at Chipewayan Homecoming, Saskatchewan against Canada and was a considered. Lutz believes best a tragic failure and at worst a finalist in the Silver Birch Awards. national crime”. The author deals Saskatchewan, and the model of “rethinking contact narratives the land scrip system. Also Her poetry was published in the means rethinking the relationship extensively with “sexual abuse” Gatherings anthology. and “abusers”. This is a key critiqued is the colonizing experi- between history and myth”. ence and the need for Caution: Contains profanity and Situating Race resource for collections focussing Lutz co-edited decolonization with the graphic descriptions of sexual and Racism in Time, Space and on First Nations issues. requirement of the deconstruction abuse and drug abuse. Theory. Milloy teaches history and Native studies at Trent University. of racist colonial paradigms. This SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 diverse collection presents possi- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH bilities for new thinking about OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 LANGUAGE ARTS Aboriginal peoples and settlers. STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, LAW, SOCIAL Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 2006 200 pp. 5.5”x8.5” 2007 248 pp. 6”x9” OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LAW 12, ISBN: 9781550503463 $19.95 PA ISBN: 9780774812627 $85.00 HC / Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SOCIAL STUDIES 1999 424 pp. 6”x9” coteaubooks.com 9780774812634 $32.95 PA b/w photographs Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes ubcpress.ca ISBN: 9780887556463 $26.95 PA 2007 160 pp. 6”x9” b/w reproductions umanitoba.ca/uofmpress ISBN: 9780888644626 $39.95 PA

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The New Buffalo Night Spirits No Feather, No Ink On Thin Ice The Struggle for Aboriginal The Story of the Relocation of After Riel Jamie Bastedo Red Deer Press Post-Secondary Education in the Sayisi Dene George Amabile & Kim Canada Dales, eds. Ila Bussidor & Set in a fictional Arctic village, this Blair Stonechild Üstün Bilgen-Reinart Thistledown Press novel cleverly weaves several sto- University of Manitoba University of Manitoba ries together. On a factual level, this Press Press This anthology, inspired by Louis is the story of the effects of global Riel, Gabriel Dumont and the warming on the Arctic. Based on Northwest Rebellion of the Métis actual events, it features severe Night Spirits is a stark, moving, As the buffalo provided almost at Batoche, is a varied collection of storms, melting permafrost, threat- personal account of the displaced everything for Aboriginal people of prose, poetry and song. The prose ening movements of massive ice Sayisi Dene. The Sayisi Dene were the Plains so, states Blair includes eye-witness accounts sheets and a catastrophic flood. On a northern nomadic tribe, who Stonechild, the New Buffalo is edu- from Dumont and others present another level, it tells the story of the had little contact with white soci- cation. Stonechild provides an at Batoche. Riel’s address to the culture and history of the Inuit, the ety, and whose life followed the historical overview of the Canadian court that convicted him of trea- power of the Spirit Bear, Nanurluk, migration of the caribou. In 1956, government’s discriminatory prac- son, his last words before being and the human connection to the blamed for the sharp decline in tices and of social Darwinism that executed and some songs he wrote spiritual world through visions of the caribou population, the Sayisi have led to many of the current are a prelude to a generous selec- the shaman. On a third level, it tells Dene were relocated to a problems facing Aboriginal tion of poetry from a wide array of the story of Ashley, born of a French settlement near Churchill, Mani- students. Stonechild believes that poets including Al Purdy, E.J. mother and Inuit father, as she tries toba. Poor housing, few jobs, controlling their own higher edu- Pratt, George Woodcock, Dorothy to find her place in the Inuit com- unfamiliarity with the language cation is the key to Aboriginal Livesay, bp Nichol and others. munity. The book includes a and culture, and loss of their inde- students’ success. Though govern- Given that Riel and his rebellion glossary of Inuktitut words and a pendent lifestyle jolted the ment initiatives have resulted in evoked strong emotional views foreword by Inuit Cultural Activist displaced Dene into a cycle of greater numbers of Aboriginal stu- either for or against them, the and former Nunavut poverty and death. Over one third dents attaining higher education, anthology includes both views. Commissioner, Peter Irniq. of the Sayisi Dene died. In the Stonechild reveals that many road- The book effectively conveys the Bastedo won the Michael Smith 1970s the band set up a new com- blocks still exist. ambivalence Riel, Dumont and Award for Science Promotion. On munity at Tadoule Lake, 250 miles Stonechild is a Cree-Saulteaux the rebellion leave as a legacy. Thin Ice won the 2007 Alberta west of Churchill. They continue from Saskatchewan. He is now a Included in the collection are Children’s/Young Adult Book of to struggle to heal the scars caused professor at the First Nations Uni- colour reproductions of thirteen the Year. A Teacher’s Guide is by relocation. versity of Canada. This book was a paintings by Henry Letendre. available online at onthinice.ca. finalist for the Governor General’s Caution: Some coarse language. Literary Award (1997). SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SCIENCES, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL Index/Bibliography: No/Yes LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES STUDIES 2006 192 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No b/w photographs, maps Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 1985 192 pp. 6”x9” 2006 352 pp. 5.25”x7.5” ISBN: 9780887556432 $18.95 PA 2006 182 pp. 6”x9” b/w photographs, reproductions ISBN: 9780889953376 $14.95 PA ISBN: 9780887556937 $24.95 PA umanitoba.ca/uofmpress ISBN: 978092063303X $12.00 PA reddeerpress.com umanitoba.ca/uofmpress thistledownpress.com

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One Native Life Only Drunks and papîyâhtak Payepot and His Richard Wagamese Children Tell the Rita Bouvier People Douglas & McIntyre Thistledown Press Truth Abel Watetch This is a collection of Bouvier’s poems, which take the Canadian Plains Research autobiographical short stories and Drew Hayden Taylor form of dramatic monologues and Center vignettes from the life of the Talonbooks are influenced by Aboriginal spo- author, Richard Wagamese. He ken traditions, are very much First published in 1957, this is a tells stories of events large and This is a sequel to Taylor’s play connected to the past. When Bou- reissue, with a new introduction, small in his life that have Someday, also listed in this cata- vier is “soaring empty” and feeling marking the fiftieth anniversary of contributed to who he is today. logue. As the play opens, we learn like she is the “grey sky with no its original publication. Payepot These include stories about his Anne has died, just months after sun in sight”, she seeks solace in (Piapot), a notable nineteenth foster families and adoptive fam- reuniting with her daughter the comfort of family, friends and century Plains Cree leader, war ily, his experiences as the only Grace, now called Janice. Barb, nature. She fondly reminisces chief, and medicine man fought Aboriginal student in his schools, Rodney and Rodney’s brother about her childhood and about for the preservation of prairie Abo- his reconnection with his Ojibway Tonto travel to Toronto to inform her grandfather who speaks of her riginal traditions and rights. This birth family, and stories of his time Janice of Anne’s death. Janice is “as an angel who guides him when book is a testament to Payepot in homeless and living in poverty. still hesitant about accepting any he loses his way”. She is his role as a religious-political Most of the stories are only a few role in the family. Eventually, both transported into the spirit world leader of his band. His personal pages long, and there is a current sisters realize that despite having when the scent of the earth fills resistance to the Department of of humour running throughout completely different upbringings, her nostrils and where her “feet Indian Affairs’ prohibitions the book, even though there are they share many similarities and [are] pounding on the soft grass”. against traditional practice sym- stories of hard times and bad their blood ties run deep. Again, She reflects on her Métis bolized his religious pragmatism things happening. humour is an important counter- background, and pays tribute to and the defense of his right to per- Most of the stories in this book point to the deep emotions. Janice Gabriel Dumont and Louis Riel. form the Rain Dance. Written from have previously been published in and Tonto’s verbal sparring She speaks mournfully about the the Aboriginal point of view, often newspapers and magazines or breaks down stereotypes, which “politics of polarity” where today in narrative format, Payepot’s life broadcast on the radio. helps Janice to overcome her fears “white rejects red and red rejects and immense struggles come alive and embrace her new family. white”, yet when listening to the to the reader. Payepot’s was SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 Taylor is an award-winning “Celtic toe-tapping fiddle” she revered by his people for his wis- OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH playwright. says, “it feels good to be alive”. dom and guidance. LANGUAGE ARTS Caution: Includes references to Bouvier’s Blueberry Clouds was Watetch was a nephew of Chief sex and alcohol. nominated for the First Peoples Index/Bibliography: No/No Payepot and a veteran of World Publishing Saskatchewan Book 2008 272pp. 5.75”x8.75” War I. Award. ISBN: 9781553653646 $29.95 HC SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, douglas-mcintyre.com LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 TEACHER RESOURCE OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL LANGUAGE ARTS 1998 112 pp. 5.5”x8.5” STUDIES ISBN: 9780889223844 $16.95 PA Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/No 2004 79 pp. 5.5”x8.5” talonbooks.com 2007 64 pp. 5”x7.5” ISBN: 9781894345699 $12.95 PA ISBN: 9780889772014 $14.95 PA

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People of the Blood The Plains Cree The Porcupine Prison of Grass A Decade-Long Photographic An Ethnographic, Historical, Hunter and Other Canada from a Native Point of Journey on a Canadian Reserve and Comparative Study Stories View George Webber David G. Mandelbaum Howard Adams Fifth House Publishers Canadian Plains Research The Original Tsimshian Texts of Fifth House Publishers Center Henry Tate Award-winning photographer, Originally published in 1975, this George Webber, spent over a Ralph Maud, ed. revised edition is the first scholarly First published in 1940, Mandel- Talonbooks decade photographing the people baum’s study remains a definitive attempt, from an Aboriginal per- of the Blood Reserve, a member of account of the Canadian Plains spective, to provide an accurate the Blackfoot Confederacy, which Cree. In this revised edition, Part This book is a compilation of sto- historical record of the injustices occupies the largest reserve in One contains material dealing ries that Henry W. Tate, a and oppression suffered by Abo- Canada. Webber documents, with with Plains Cree history and eth- Tsimshian, sent to Franz Boas riginal peoples in Canada. Adams stark black and white photographs nology. Part Two compares the during the decade 1903–1913. exposes some of the ways the gov- and bare written accounts, many Plains Cree to other groups east of Through Maud’s selection of the ernment fabricated the truth, aspects of the people’s lives: the the prairies, and the Plains Cree best of Tate’s original stories, we perpetuated racism and practised sweat lodge, the sun dance, culture to other Plains tribes. can hear the animated writer discrimination. He examines the rodeos, funerals, conversations Mandelbaum’s book is a detailed behind Boas’ revised texts – texts total failure of government and worsening problems on the anthropological approach that now presented in the authentic policies to give Aboriginal peoples reserve. This photo-documentary focuses on the historical voice of Tate’s original tellings. basic rights or means for survival, recounts the tragedies as well as structures of Cree society. The text Stories fall into the following cate- and the negative effects resulting hopes of the people of the Reserve is methodically ordered, making gories: Animals and Humans, from colonization. Includes with both dignity and respect. As specific references to all aspects of Fables, Cosmology, Moral Tales, appendices and endnotes. Webber states in his foreword “I Cree life from food and hunting, Mythic History, and The Raven Adams was the first Métis to am continually seeking to touch kinship and social structures, reli- Cycle. Each of the stories, and the receive his PhD. During the 1960s, and understand the traditions and gion and ceremonialism, to extensive Raven Cycle, are he was instrumental in forcing the spirituality of this place”. warfare easy to access. The book provided with introductions and Saskatchewan government to Webber has received five Cana- contains extensive chapter notes, notes by the editor. place Métis concerns on the politi- dian magazine awards; the Award tables, charts and appendices. cal agenda. In 1999, Dr. Adams of Excellence, The Society of News SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 received the National Aboriginal Design – USA; and International SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Achievement Award. Documentary Photography Award TEACHER RESOURCE LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES – Korea. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL Index/Bibliography: No/Yes OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LAW, STUDIES 1993 176 pp. 6”x9” SOCIAL STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 ISBN: 9780889223332 $15.95 PA OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes SOCIAL STUDIES 1979 400 pp. 6”x9” talonbooks.com b/w & colour reproductions, line 1989 208 pp. 6”x9” Index/Bibliography: No/No drawings, maps ISBN: 9780920079515 $22.95 PA 2006 108 pp. 8.75”x8.75” ISBN: 9780889770131 $24.95 PA fifthhousepublishers.ca b/w photographs ISBN: 9781894856980 $24.95 HC cprc.ca

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Quiet Revolution Raven Travelling Red Crow The Reluctant Land West Two Centuries of Haida Art Warrior Chief Society, Space, and The Rebirth of Métis Peter McNair, Marianne Hugh A. Dempsey Environment in Canada Nationalism Jones, Nika Collison & Fifth House Publishers before Confederation Daina Augaitis Cole Harris John Weinstein This 1995 reprint of the popular Douglas & McIntyre Eric Leinberger Fifth House Publishers biography first published in 1980 UBC Press This valuable publication helps to place Red Crow in his his- In 1869, the population of the Red coincided with an exhibition of torical context. The leader of the River Settlement consisted of 5,720 the same name celebrating the Blood tribe in the difficult times The book begins with a descrip - francophone Métis, 4,080 anglo- Vancouver Art Gallery’s 75th before and during the negoti - tion of the land and life in phone Métis and 1,600 whites. The anniversary. It celebrates Haida ations of Treaty 7, and in its pre-Canadian confederation in Manitoba Act of 1870 created the art and artists – their sculptures, aftermath, is presented in a the 1500s, proceeds through to tiny new province of Manitoba. masks and baskets – with high balanced, readable narrative. By the early 1870s, and ends by con- The Métis hoped to govern them- quality photographic recounting his early years as a sidering the relationship between selves and to own land in the reproductions. The stories by determined warrior, his increas- this pattern and our present newly created province. Despite Haida artists accompanying the ing wealth and influence, and country. The text follows the the efforts of Louis Riel and artwork make this book truly ultimately his ascension to the progressive geographic and Gabriel Dumont, the Métis were unique. Creation stories, the his- role of peacetime chief of the historical regional changes in our defeated at Batoche in 1885, and tory and function of Haida art and Bloods, Dempsey presents an society and environment. The Riel was hung for treason. With the the repatriation of Haida absorbing outline of the times in pattern of settle ment and the death of their leader, the Métis ancestors are discussed. Authors this eventful period of Canadian changing relationships of people people seemed to disappear. In include such well-known artists as and Aboriginal history. Red Crow to the land is the book’s theme. It fact, their culture persisted. Quiet Bill Reid and Robert Davidson. is a compelling character who shows how European terms Revolution West chronicles the skillfully guides the Bloods reconstituted an Aboriginal land through a dignified adaptation to with a harshly imposed superior- activities of Métis groups and lead- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 the limitations of reserve life and ity to a new worldview. The book ers from 1887 onward, especially OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, the inexorable encroachment of shows how a changing history political activity from the 1960s to SOCIAL STUDIES the present. The book includes European ways. Includes affects the physical and cultural Index/Bibliography: No/No detailed information about politi- extensive notes. geographical landscape. 2006 200 pp. 9”x12” Crow- cal manoeuvring, in-depth reviews Dempsey is the author of b/w & colour photographs, colour foot Big Bear. of legal cases and accounts of the and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, reproductions activities of modern Métis leaders. TEACHER RESOURCE ISBN: 9781553653141 $39.95 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 douglas-mcintyre.com LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes STUDIES Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 2008 512 pp. 6”x9” 1995 282 pp. 9”x12” line drawings, b/w reproductions, Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes b/w photographs & illustrations, maps, graphs 2007 245 pp. 6”x9” maps ISBN: 9780774814492 $95.00 HC / b/w photographs, maps ISBN: 9781895618617 $16.95 PA 9780774814508 $39.95 PA ISBN: 9781897252215 $24.95 PA fifthhousepublishers.ca ubcpress.ca fifthhousepublishers.ca

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Reservation X The Rez Sisters Sacred Stories of Saint-Laurent, Gerald McMaster, ed. A Play in Two Acts the Sweet Grass Manitoba Goose Lane Editions Tomson Highway Evolving Métis Identities, Fifth House Publishers Cree Combining in-depth essays and 1850–1914 representative photographs of Leonard Bloomfield installations from the Reservation In this play, seven sisters are on a Fifth House Publishers Nicole St-Onge X exhibition shown in New York quest to go to Toronto to play in Canadian Plains Research and Ottawa, this companion book the “Biggest Bingo in the World”. This reprint of the 1930 publication Center explores the nature of community The trouble they have is that they is a collection of Cree folklore must try to gather enough money, and place as it applies to Aborigi- passed down through many gen- What exactly is a Métis? This book nal identity and expression in and a ride, so they can all go. erations. The thirty-six legends Whether the prize money goes for is a meticulous study of the com- Aboriginal homelands. These written in Cree and English cover munity of Saint-Laurent on the artists represent the redefinition the purchase of a new stove, a number of subjects: the begin- paving the reservations roads, an south-eastern tip of Lake of Aboriginal art from the limita- ning of mankind, the animal Manitoba. Using census records, tions of mainstream work to island, or to simply buy Patsy kingdom and existence. The Cline’s records, the sisters are church documents and recorded challenging non-Aboriginal defi- author, who spent time on the interviews, St-Onge reveals the nitions of what is an Aboriginal in determined to make it to the Sweet Grass Reserve, provides event. Forever following the sisters complex social interrelationships Canada. The essays and art brief biographical sketches on the within the Métis community, acknowledge that for most Aborig- on their adventure is Nanabush, four major informants of the the trickster in North American which was stratified into degrees of inal peoples the reservation sacred stories. A lengthy “Métiness”. The more prosperous, (reserve) is home and that this Indian mythology. He teaches discussion on the distinctive about the meaning of existence, settled and religious a family negotiated space set aside by gov- sounds of the Cree language is became, the more their ernments to isolate Aboriginal the consciousness of man, and the also included. This book will be a Great Spirit. “whiteness” was emphasized. By communities turned out to be a useful addition to the comparative 1950, the term “Métis” had become useful container for maintaining Highway is a winner of the Dora mythology section of secondary Mavor Moore Award. He also a derogatory term denoting poor, and evolving a unique culture. school libraries. transient and unschooled people Through four exploratory and crit- wrote Dry Lips Oughta Move to Bloomfield was a linguistics pro- Kapuskasing, included in this cat- of mixed ancestry. In the 1950s half ical essays accompanying the fessor at Yale University. those of mixed Indian-European work of each of the seven artists, alogue, and Rose. Caution: Includes some coarse ancestry did not perceive the evolution of a relationship to SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 language. themselves at “Métis”. In the 1960s, the reservation is articulated. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH there was a resurgence of pride in LANGUAGE ARTS Métis ancestry. Includes charts and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 Index/Bibliography: No/No graphs. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH 1993 346 pp. 6.25”x9.25” LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS, LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS ISBN: 9781895618273 $19.95 PA SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL fifthhousepublishers.ca Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes 1988 122 pp. 5.5”x8.5” STUDIES 1998 164 pp. 8.25”x11” ISBN: 9780920079447 $12.95 PA Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes b/w & colour photographs fifthhousepublishers.ca 2005 137 pp. 6.75”x9.75” ISBN: 9780864922502 $39.95 PA b/w photographs, maps gooselane.com ISBN: 9780889771731 $14.95 PA cprc.ca

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The Salish People The Salish People she is reading her Simon Fraser Volume III Volume IV: The Sechelt and the blanket with her In Search of Modern Charles Hill-Tout South-Eastern Tribes of British Columbia Talonbooks Vancouver Island hands the dedication poems Stephen Hume Ralph Maud, ed. Harbour Publishing This is the third volume of the col- Talonbooks lected anthropological work of the Sharron Proulx-Turner Frontenac House The author provides a chronologi- settler turned self-educated cal journey of Simon Fraser’s life, anthropologist Charles Hill-Tout. In this, the final volume of the local contributions of Charles Hill- especially Fraser’s exploration His field studies of the Aboriginal The first section of this book serves and the establishment of trade peoples of the Lower Fraser River Tout on the Salish People, editor as exemplary work for those who Ralph Maud has combined the relations with the Aboriginals. were carried out in the late 19th are studying the prose poem as a Beginning in the early 1800s, and early 20th centuries. His inter- field-work and writings on the form. Proulx-Turner, a Métis, uses Sechelt and South Eastern Hume takes readers through est was initially piqued by the a combination of prose poetry and Simon Fraser’s experiences as he discovery of a huge midden at the Vancouver Island tribes with free verse in a way that is fresh and important articles and correspon- opened up a territory that is now foot of the present location of Oak exciting. She employs images the province of BC. His accounts St. in Vancouver. From here he dence. As well as the detailed based in family, nature and the ethnographic studies on these two of the early Aboriginal nations and read extensively and spent land. Although many of these cultures comprise a high percent- extended periods living with the tribes, there is an article on pieces focus on everyday life expe- totemism, which extended the age of this book. He writes of how Halkomelem people, learning riences, they are never banal. With both European and Aboriginal their language, engaging in various contemporary thinking on this its many historical and literary ref- subject. Correspondence with cultures changed as they learned archaeological investigations, and erences (including to other from each other. The author collecting myths and myriad other noted anthropologists Franz Boas Aboriginal writers), the book and James Teit (among others) includes a useful description of ethnographic details. Despite could serve as the basis for term methods for gathering evidence to being outside the academic main- helps to place Hill-Tout in the papers or other scholarly work. scholarly world. It also helps to maintain both historical reliability stream, he was widely accepted as The author’s memoir, written and credibility. Social Studies an important source for studies of see the eccentric side of Hill-Tout. under a pseudonym, was a finalist The scientific and scholarly teachers may wish to discuss these the Salish peoples. This volume for the Edna Staebler Award for academic procedures with their approach of his thinking and writ- what the also contains his essay on later creative non-fiction. students. ing and the rigorous sensitivity of aunty says prehistoric man in BC. Ralph was a finalist for the Hume is a senior writer and his work come through in all these . Maud introduced these volumes to Gerald Lampert Prize columnist for the Vancouver Sun. help put them in their historical writings. Includes extensive notes Caution: Contains sexual refer- context. and the index for all four volumes. ences and strong language. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12, TEACHER RESOURCE SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH STUDIES STUDIES STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: Yes/No Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/No 2008 400 pp. 7.25”x10.25” 1978 181 pp. 5.5”x8.5” 1978 165 pp. 7”x9.75” 2008 97 pp. 5.5”x8.5” b/w & colour reproductions, colour b/w photographs, illustrations, maps b/w photographs, illustrations, maps ISBN: 9781897181188 $15.95 PA photographs, line drawings, maps ISBN: 9780889221505 $18.95 PA ISBN: 9780889221512 $18.95 PA frontenachouse.com ISBN: 9781550174342 $36.95 HC talonbooks.com talonbooks.com harbourpublishing.com

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Someday Spirit of the Alberta Stanley Park’s Taking the Names Drew Hayden Taylor Indian Treaties Secret Down from the Hill Fifth House Publishers Third Edition The Forgotten Families of Whoi Philip Kevin Paul Nightwood Editions This tragic story, written as a play, Richard T. Price, ed. Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and tells how one family was shattered University of Alberta Press Brockton Point by the 1960s “scoop up” of Aborig- This first book of poetry deals inal children from the reserves by Jean Barman unapologetically and the Children’s Aid Society. Ann, a This collection of articles about Harbour Publishing unsentimentally with the loss of middle-aged woman living on a the pre-treaty mindsets, treaty loved ones and the clarity one reserve, has just won the lottery. negotiation processes and post- achieves in dealing with the loss. This book is about the inhabitants She decides to hire a private treaty impact of Treaties 6-9 is Using accessible but artful of Stanley Park who were detective to find her long lost academically rigorous but accessi- language, the poet honours the displaced so that the City of Van- daughter. Coincidentally, her ble. This edition includes an wisdom his people passed to him couver could create an urban daughter had just begun to search article by Dr. Jean Price that elabo- through his family and then con- oasis. Barman describes the life of for her, and when she sees Anne’s rates on the complexities of the veys it as a legacy to his readers. Aboriginal peoples living at Whoi name announced in the newspa- Aboriginal understandings in the He also shows how traditions Whoi, now Lumberman’s Arch; per, she pays a visit to the reserve. negotiation process. The original evolve out of experiences into immigrant Hawaiians who settled Grace/Janice represents all the edition was used as a reference in always contemporary expressions in Kanaka Ranch; and the mixed- goals and aspirations of white two Supreme Court decisions. An of the ancient. Paul celebrates race villagers who resided in society, while the younger daugh- intriguing section explains the Aboriginal extended family and Brockton Point. Oral histories, ter, Barb, lives, loves and works process and use of oral history relationships that the dominant archival documents, Parks Board within her Aboriginal community through interviews with elders. It culture has lost, and that is also at records, court proceedings, and its values. Tensions run high shows how this research tool risk in native culture. He also hints records from the Department of and emotions are intense in this assists federal and provincial gov- at what the dominant culture is Indians Affairs and interviews drama, but are offset with humour ernments and courts to develop missing in its devotion to progress conducted by the city archivist in the character of Barb’s an understanding of Aboriginal and the future. during the 1930s form the research boyfriend, Rodney. understanding of treaty Paul has been anthologized in basis to this examination of the Taylor is the multi award-win- intentions. It also explains how Breathing Fire: Canada’s New history of the park’s creation. ning playwright and Ojibway from this can supplement archival doc- Poets, An Anthology of Canadian Barman is the author of many the Curve Lake Reserve in Ontario. uments and treaty text to Native Literature in English and in books including The West Beyond elaborate on treaty BC Studies. interpretations. the West. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS, SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LAW, LANGUAGE ARTS SOCIAL STUDIES STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/No 1993 92 pp. 5.5”x8.5” Index/Bibliography: No/Yes 2003 80 pp. 5.25”x7.5” 2005 288 pp. 6.25”x9.25” ISBN: 9781895618105 $12.95 PA 1999 236 pp. 6”x9” ISBN: 9780889711822 $16.95 PA b/w photographs, maps b/w photographs, tables, map fifthhousepublishers.ca ISBN: 9780888643278 $26.95 PA ISBN: 9781550174205 $24.95 PA nightwoodeditions.com

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Their Example These Mountains They Write Their Tom Three Persons Showed Me the Way Are Our Sacred Dreams on the Rock A Multimedia Poetry Sequence A Cree Woman’s Life Shaped by Yvonne Trainer Places Forever Frontenac House Two Cultures The Story of the Stoney People Rock Writings in the Stein River Emma Minde Poet Yvonne Trainer has created a Chief John Snow Valley of British Columbia Freda Ahenakew & H. C. book that combines history and Fifth House Publishers Wolfart, eds. & trans. Annie York, Richard Daly & lore into a poetic biography of University of Alberta Press Chris Arnett Tom Three Persons, a Blood from Partly biography, partly historical Talonbooks the Standoff Reserve in Alberta narrative and partly a vision of the and champion bronco rider at the Minde was born in 1907 at Saddle future for Aboriginal culture in first Calgary Stampede in 1912. As Lake, Alberta. At twenty her father Canada, this book tells the story of Focusing on sixteen rock images, she points out in her introduction, chose her husband, and she was the Stoney-Nakoda people of elder Annie York of the ’Nlaka’pa- the poems can be read as a taken from her home to join him southwestern Alberta, pre- and mux Nation explains their sequence or on their own. These and his family. Emma recalls the post-contact. It reveals how a significance to the spirituality and pieces are straightforward in their hardships and joys of living off the resourceful people are travelling history of her people and their descriptions; yet contain a strong land, and reiterates the importance the path to recovering the best of relationship to the Stein River Val- sense of the poetic—but one that of family integrity and of planning their culture and technology and ley and surrounding area. The isn’t flowery or pretentious. Some ahead for the future. Emma’s working towards a bi-cultural co- book is divided into chapters deal- poems could be used to spark cre- amusing stories provide a look at existence with the best of ing with the subject of rock ative writing or other interpretive one of Alberta’s most significant immigrant European culture and writing, the interpreter’s life and exercises, such as drawings or reserve communities and offers technology. The failures of the background, the individual rock paintings or collages. The rough- insight into a life guided by two Canadian government to live up to writings and the use of writing and-ready elements of rodeo in powerful forces: the traditional way Treaty 7 as well as the hardships across varying cultures. Although these poems will likely appeal to of life of the Plains Cree and the endured are outlined. This reissue most appropriate for the second- boys. The text is interspersed with influence of the Catholic missions. of the 1977 edition includes an ary level, this book could be also several black and white archival The stories are presented in Cree extensive epilogue that outlines used in elementary classrooms. photographs and prints, including with a translation into English. A the major developments in the Daly is an ethnographer, Arnett pictures of the actual Tom Three Cree-English glossary and English interim. is an art historian. Persons. Index make this work is an impor- The late Chief John Snow held Caution: Prejudice, drinking, tant Cree language resource. honourary Doctorates of Law and SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12, gambling and fighting are depict- Divinity from two universities. TEACHER RESOURCE ed, though none are glorified. SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENLGISH LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 LANGUAGE ARTS, HEALTH & OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH CAREER EDUCATION, SOCIAL STUD- LANGUAGE ARTS, LAW, SOCIAL 1993 299 pp. 8”x10” LANGUAGE ARTS IES STUDIES b/w & colour photographs Index/Bibliography: No/No ISBN: 9780889223318 $60.00 HC Index/Bibliography: No/No Index/Bibliography: No/Yes 2002 70 pp. 5.5”x8.5” 1997 320 pp. 6”x9” 2005 264 pp. 5.5”x8.5” talonbooks.com b/w photographs, map ISBN: 9780888642912 $24.95 PA b/w photographs, maps ISBN: 9780968490389 $14.95 PA ISBN: 9781894856799 $18.95 PA uap.ualberta.ca frontenachouse.com fifthhousepublishers.ca

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Toronto at Tracking Doctor Traditional Tsimshian Treasures Dreamer’s Rock & Lonecloud Narratives of the The Remarkable Journey of the Education is Our Showman to Legend Keeper Rock Cree Indians Dundas Collection Donald Ellis, ed. Ruth Holmes Whitehead Robert A. Brightman Steven Clay Brown, Bill Right Goose Lane Editions Two One-Act Plays Canadian Plains Research Holm, et al. Center Douglas & McIntyre Jerry Lonecloud was born in Drew Hayden Taylor Belfast, Maine in 1852, but returned This book contains the traditional Fifth House Publishers to Nova Scotia in 1869. From his In October 1863 Reverend Robert stories of the Rock Cree as told by Mi’kmaw parents, Lonecloud J. Dundas of Scotland purchased the Cree people in the late 1970s Drew Hayden Taylor, one of learned much about his Aboriginal eighty “ceremonial objects” from and mid 1980s. These stories, Canada’s foremost playwrights, heritage, particularly about medic- missionary William Duncan at Old which had been passed on orally, writes plays that are both funny inal herbal plants and remedies. In Metlakatla (near Prince Rupert). are written as the speakers narrate and profound. This is a collection the 1880s Lonecloud joined the For 140 years the Tsimshian to the author. Written in spoken of two one-act plays. Both pieces Healy and Bigelow’s Wild West objects remained in the Dundas word form, there is a different flow employ the device of having char- Show and then founded his own family before going up for auction to each tale and much dialect is acters that visit from the past, Kiowa Medicine Show where he in New York in 2006. Tsimshian used. Each story is discussed by present and future. The first sold his Aboriginal medicines Treasures tells the story of the the author in terms of reference to focuses on alcohol abuse, while under the name of Doctor Dundas Collection and how other stories that are similar but the second, which is patterned Lonecloud. Included as well is thirty-six of the artifacts, including told by different speakers. The dis- after Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Lonecloud’s own memoir, written clubs, masks, rattles, headdresses, cussion also considers differences is historical. Some elements may in his own words. This well- and bowls and dishes, made their created by various speakers and seem dated (e.g., Bay City Rollers, researched book presents a way back to Canada. This analyzes the make up of the story. a character’s Walkman), the char- colourful portrait of Lonecloud and stunningly beautiful book The author goes into depth about acters and their concerns are contains extensive information includes seventy-two full-colour the difference in types of stories, timeless. Taylor explores impor- about Mi’kmaw culture. plates and detailed descriptions, and about the trickster character. tant themes, such as taking pride Whitehead is an ethnologist and and essays explaining the impor- Brightman is also the author of in one’s identity, language and assistant curator at the Nova Sco- tance of the collection in Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human- traditions. tia Museum. She has written many preserving the history of the Animal Relationships. Caution: Whites are portrayed books on the Micmac. Tsimshian. in a negative light. Ellis is a dealer in North Ameri- SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 can Aboriginal art. OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 9-12 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: DRAMA, STUDIES SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-12 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS Index/Bibliography: No/Yes OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: FINE ARTS, Index/Bibliography: No/Yes 2007 185 pp. 6”x9” SOCIAL STUDIES Index/Bibliography: No/No 2002 184 pp. 6”x8.5” charts 1990 139 pp. 5.5”x8.5” b/w photographs Index/Bibliography: No/Yes ISBN: 97810889771956 $29.95 PA ISBN: 9780920079645 $12.95 PA ISBN: 9780864923561 $19.95 PA 2007 144 pp. 10.25”x12” cprc.ca b/w & colour photographs, fifthhousepublishers.ca gooselane.com reproductions, archival photographs ISBN: 9781553653325 $55.00 HC

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Two Houses Half- Voices of the Plains Wawatay The Western Métis Buried in Sand Cree Penny Gummerson Profile of a People Playwrights Canada Press Oral Traditions of the Edward Ahenakew Patrick C. Douaud, ed. Canadian Plains Research Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish of Ruth M. Buck, ed. In this play, Lois, the mother of a Center Kuper Island and Vancouver Canadian Plains Research dysfunctional family, ends up in Center hospital. The rest of the family Island gathers, including Jaz, her The Métis people are an often mis- understood Aboriginal group in Part One of this title tells the sto- wayward daughter who has Beryl Mildred Cryer Canada. This collection of ries of Chief Thunderchild who embraced her Aboriginal heritage, Chris Arnett, ed. fourteen articles provides grew up in the old way: hunting a heritage that the others in her Talonbooks information about who are the buffalo, stealing horses, warring family have tried desperately to Métis as well it answers questions with other tribes, listening to the deny. Through her mother’s stay about their culture and history. Beryl Cryer, a journalist and ama- stories of the elders, and learning in the hospital, Jaz encourages her The works come from the journal teur anthropologist, recorded and about visions and dreams. Part family to accept their heritage, and Prairie Forum, which publishes published the Hul’q’umi’num ori- Two is in the voice of Old Keyam, a through this grow as a family. articles about the connections gin and history narratives by fictional character who represents Gummerson has written for tele- between culture and land in the Aboriginal elders in the early 1930s Ahenakew’s feelings and experi- vision, movies and the stage. She prairie areas. The subject matter of for the Daily Colonist. This collec- ences of growing up a gifted was head writer for the television these articles is specific about cer- tion of sixty stories preserves student on the Reserve in the early show “Moccasin Flats”. Other Crossing Boundaries tain families, events or accounts of nineteenth and early 1900s, in a world ruled by the plays include Is There Bingo in Heaven? government decisions. The theme twentieth century Central Coast white man. Edward Ahenakew and awatay of identity and what it means to be Salish history and culture. Stories (1885-1961) was an Anglican cler- W received the 2002 Van- Métis runs through these writings. about women are presented in gyman whose ancestors include couver Jessie Richardson Theatre Many articles are an excellent detail particularly in regards to Chiefs Poundmaker and Big Bear. Award for Outstanding Original source of information about the their spiritual training, naming He became a missionary to help Play and the People’s Choice Red River Resistance. The ceremonies, work and daily lives his people, and attended medical Favourite New Play Award at the Vancouver New Play Festival. language is at fairly high level, in the period 1860-1930. Articles college for three years before Caution: some of it college level. cover topics such as marriages, falling ill. During his convales - Profanity throughout Douaud is the editor-in-chief for fights, deaths, rock art and the ori- cence, he began to collect and and racial slurs within context. Prairie Forum. He also edited gin of the Qhwimux Tribe. record Aboriginal stories and leg- Strongly advised to use as a read Plain Speaking: Essays on Aborigi- Caution: The narratives reflect ends from those he called the Old piece of literature rather than a nal Peoples & the Prairie. the vernacular of the time. Men. play presented in a classroom or school-wide SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 12 SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 8-10 OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: SOCIAL OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 11-12 STUDIES STUDIES LANGUAGE ARTS, SOCIAL STUDIES OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, FINE ARTS Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/Yes Index/Bibliography: No/Yes 2007 326 pp. 6”x9” 2007 351 pp. 6”x9” 1995 130 pp. 6.75”x9.75” Index/Bibliography: No/No maps, charts b/w photographs b/w photographs, line drawings 2002 120 pp. 5.25”x8.25” ISBN: 9780889771994 $29.95 PA ISBN: 9780889225558 $24.95 PA ISBN: 9780889770832 $18.00 PA ISBN: 9780887547805 $16.95 PA cprc.ca talonbooks.com cprc.ca playwrightscanada.com

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Acoose, Janice/Misko-Kìsikàwihkwè Caduto, Michael J. & Joseph Bruchac . . . .3, 4, 7 (Red Sky Woman) ...... 34 Cameron, Anne ...... 13, 17, 27 Adams, Howard ...... 40 Campbell, Nicola I...... 8 Ahenakew, Edward ...... 47 Charko, Kasia (ill.) ...... 9 Ahenakew, Freda & H. C. Wolfart, Christmas, Dozay (ill.) ...... 5 eds. & trans...... 45 Clark, Karin ...... 17 Amabile, George & Kim Dales, eds...... 38 Clay Brown, Steven, Bill Holm, et al...... 46 Anderson, Alistair (ill.) ...... 23, 31 Colosimo, Cynthia (ill.) ...... 3 André, Julie-Ann & Mindy Willett ...... 9 Combet, Denis, ed...... 30 Archibald, Jo-ann ...... 33 Craigan, Charlie (ill.) ...... 8 Arnett, Chris, ed...... 47 Cryer, Beryl Mildred ...... 47 Barber-Starkey, Joe ...... 3, 14 Cuthand, Doug ...... 11 Barber, Terry ...... 6, 19 Deines, Brian (ill.) ...... 8 Barman, Jean ...... 44 Delehanty Pearkes, Eileen ...... 31 Barron, F. Laurie & James B. Waldram, eds . .21 Dempsey, Hugh A...... 41 Bastedo, Jamie ...... 38 Dennis, Darrell ...... 27 Baxter, Jean Rae ...... 20 DePasquale, Paul W., ed...... 37 Beagan, Tara ...... 28 Dinsdale, Christopher ...... 19 Beaulieu, Archie (ill.) ...... 10 Douaud, Patrick C., ed...... 47 Beaver, Moses (ill.) ...... 1 Douchard, Randy & Dorothy Kennedy, eds.. .33 The World Is Our Beaverho, Archie (ill.) ...... 17 Dow, Amanda, Dennis Fast & Francis Lépine Beckel, Annamarie ...... 21 (ill.) ...... 1 Witness Berger, Thomas R...... 36 Dumont, Marilyn, ed...... 33 Berry, Susan and Jack Brink ...... 11 Einarson, Earl ...... 6 The Historic Journey of the Bertz, Dietrich, trans...... 33 Elias, Peter Douglas ...... 26 Nisga’a into Canada Billington, Keith ...... 13 Ellis, Donald, ed...... 46 Black, Martha ...... 23 Fadden, Kahionhes John & David Tom Molloy & Donald Blohm, Hans-Ludwig (ill.) ...... 27 Kanietakeron Fadden (ill.) ...... 4, 7 Ward Blondin, John (as told by George Blondin) .4, 17 Fadden & Lightfeather, (ill.) ...... 3 Bloomfield, Leonard ...... 42 Fadden & Wood, (ill.) ...... 4 Fifth House Publishers Boaz, Franz ...... 33 Feagan, Robert ...... 6, 7 Book, Rick ...... 1 Ferland, Marcien, ed...... 22 The Final Agreement of Canada’s Botting, Gary ...... 25 Flett, Julie (ill.) ...... 6 Nisga’a Treaty in 1998 is a Bouchard, David ...... 1, 16, 18 Fossett, Renée ...... 33 milestone in the history of Aborig- Bouchard, Jocelyn (ill.) ...... 14 Foster, Hamar, Heather Raven & inal and government negotiations. Bourdeau Waboose, Jan ...... 6, 8 Jeremy Webber, eds...... 35 The agreement recognizes the Bouvier, Rita ...... 39 Fournel, Kelly ...... 12 right of the Nisga’a people to live Brightman, Robert A...... 46 Francis, Marvin ...... 25 on and control the land where Brink, Jack W...... 32 Gaboury-Diallo, Lise , trans...... 30 they have always lived. The Buck, Ruth M., ed...... 47 Gerber, Mary Jane (ill.) ...... 8 author, who served as Chief Nego- Bussidor, Ila & Üstün Bilgen-Reinart ...... 38 Goyette, Linda & tiator for the Government of Byrne, Nympha & Camille Fouillard, eds. . . .34 Carolina Jakeway Roemmich ...... 28 Canada, describes the elaborate process of making this treaty. He traces the history of the Nisga’a people and their claim, discusses the elements of the treaty, and provides an analysis of the politi- PUBLISHERS’ WEBSITES cal intrigue and opposition to this agreement. This book provides a Annick Press ...... annickpress.com foundation for understanding Athabasca University Press ...... aupress.ca future land claims, and exempli- Boulder Publications ...... boulderpublications.ca fies how negotiating can offer a successful approach to conflict Breakwater Books ...... breakwaterbooks.com resolution. Notes and a synopsis Canadian Plains Research Center ...... cprc.ca of the Agreement are included. Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc...... cspi.org Cape Breton University Press ...... cbupress.ca SUGGESTED AUDIENCE: 10-12 Coteau Books ...... coteaubooks.com OTHER SUBJECT AREAS: LAW, Crabtree Publishing ...... crabtreebooks.com SOCIAL STUDIES Douglas & McIntyre ...... douglas-mcintyre.com Index/Bibliography: Yes/Yes The Dundurn Group ...... dundurn.com 2000 252 pp. 5.5”x8.75” Éditions des Plaines ...... plaines.mb.ca b/w photographs, maps Éditions du Blé ...... ble.recf.ca ISBN: 9781897252086 $18.95 PA Fifth House Publishers ...... fifthhousepublishers.ca fifthhousepublishers.ca Firefly Books ...... fireflybooks.com

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INDEX BY TITLE

1885 and After ...... 21 Honoré Jaxon ...... 32 The Old Man with the Otter Medicine ...... 17 Aboriginal Carol, An ...... 1 House Calls by Dogsled ...... 13 On Thin Ice ...... 38 Aboriginal Cultures in Alberta ...... 11 How Dog Became A Friend ...... 3 One Native Life ...... 39 Aboriginal Well-Being ...... 21 How Raven Freed the Moon ...... 13 Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth . . . .39 Achimoona ...... 11 How the Loon lost her Voice ...... 13 Orca’s Song ...... 17 All Gone Widdun ...... 21 Imagining Head-Smashed-In ...... 32 Orphan Ahwak ...... 17 alterNatives ...... 21 In a World Created by a Drunken God ...... 32 Pacific Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art ...... 17 Annie Mae’s Movement ...... 22 In Order to Live Untroubled ...... 33 papîyâhtak ...... 39 Askiwina ...... 11 Indian Myths & Legends from the Payepot and His People ...... 39 The Assiniboine ...... 22 North Pacific Coast of America ...... 33 People of the Blood ...... 40 Au temps de la Prairie ...... 22 Indigenous Storywork ...... 33 The Plains Cree ...... 40 The Baby Blues ...... 22 Initiations ...... 33 Pomiuk ...... 7 Bear Child ...... 23 Inside Out ...... 34 The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories . . . .40 Bella Bella ...... 23 Inuit Art ...... 13 Prison of Grass ...... 40 Bella Coola Man ...... 23 The Inuit Thought of It ...... 3 Qu’Appelle ...... 18 The Beothuk of Newfoundland ...... 11 Inuit Women Artists ...... 34 Quiet Revolution West ...... 41 The Berlin Blues ...... 23 Inuksuit ...... 14 Raven Travelling ...... 41 Blackships and Thanadelthur ...... 1 Iskwewak ...... 34 Reading the Bones ...... 18 The Bootlegger Blues ...... 24 It’s Like the Legend ...... 34 Recording Their Story ...... 18 Borrowed Black ...... 1 Jason and the Sea Otter ...... 3 Red Crow ...... 41 Breathing Stone ...... 24 Jason’s New Dugout Canoe ...... 14 The Reluctant Land ...... 41 Byron Through the Seasons ...... 1 Keepers of Life ...... 4 Reservation X ...... 42 Cape Dorset Sculpture ...... 24 Keepers of the Animals ...... 3 The Rez Sisters ...... 42 Ch’askin ...... 2 Keepers of the Earth ...... 4 Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree ...... 42 Charlie Muskrat ...... 24 The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples Saint-Laurent, Manitoba ...... 42 Chief Smallboy ...... 25 in Canada ...... 14 The Salish People ...... 43 The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors ...... 25 The Kids Book of the Far North ...... 14 Salmon Boy ...... 8 Christmas at Wapos Bay ...... 2 Landing Native Fisheries ...... 35 she is reading her blanket with her hands . . .43 Cibou ...... 25 The Legend of the Caribou Boy ...... 4 Shin-chi’s Canoe ...... 8 city treaty ...... 25 Legends of the Omushkigowak ...... 35 Silent Words ...... 19 Coast Salish Essays ...... 26 Les Premières nations ...... 18 Simon Fraser ...... 43 Cree ...... 26 The Lesser Blessed ...... 35 Sky Sisters ...... 8 Cree ...... 12 Let Right Be Done ...... 35 Someday ...... 44 The Crooked Good ...... 26 Life in a Longhouse Village ...... 4 Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties ...... 44 The Dakota of the Canadian Northwest . . . . .26 Life in a Plains Camp ...... 5 Stanley Park’s Secret ...... 44 Darrell Dennis ...... 27 Life in an Anishinabe Camp ...... 5 Stolen Away ...... 19 Daughters of Copper Woman ...... 27 Life in the Far North ...... 5 Taking the Names Down from the Hill ...... 44 Deadly Loyalties ...... 27 Litigating Aboriginal Culture ...... 36 Their Example Showed Me the Way ...... 45 The Delta Is My Home ...... 2 A Long and Terrible Shadow ...... 36 These Mountains Are Our Sacred Places . . . .45 The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab ...... 27 Loon Rock/Pkwimu Wkuntem ...... 5 They Write Their Dreams on the Dreary and Izzy ...... 28 The Lord’s Distant Vineyard ...... 36 Rock Forever ...... 45 Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing ...... 28 Louis Riel ...... 6 Tom Longboat ...... 19 Earth Elder Stories ...... 28 Makúk ...... 36 Tom Three Persons ...... 45 Edmonton ...... 28 Men of Courage from our First Nations ...... 15 Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock & Encyclopedia of Native Tribes Middle Row ...... 15 Education is Our Right ...... 46 of North America ...... 12 The Moccasins ...... 6 Totem Poles ...... 19 Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout ...... 29 Morning on the Lake ...... 6 Tracking Doctor Lonecloud ...... 46 Explorations in the Interior Morningstar ...... 37 Traditional Narratives of the of the Labrador Peninsula ...... 29 Mystery at Shildii Rock ...... 6 Rock Cree Indians ...... 46 Finders Keepers ...... 12 Myth & Memory ...... 37 Tsimshian Treasures ...... 46 Finding My Talk ...... 29 Napachee ...... 7 Tuk and the Whale ...... 8 Firekeepers of the Twenty-First Century . . . .29 A National Crime ...... 37 Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand ...... 47 Flight of the Hummingbird ...... 30 Nations of the Eastern Great Lakes ...... 15 A Visual Dictionary of Native Communities . .9 For Future Generations ...... 30 Nations of the Plains ...... 15 Voices of the Plains Cree ...... 47 Funny Little Stories ...... 30 Nations of the Western Great Lakes ...... 16 The Voyage of Wood Duck ...... 9 Gabriel Dumont ...... 30 Native Homes ...... 16 Wawatay ...... 47 Gabriel Dumont in Paris ...... 31 The Native Stories from Keepers of Life ...... 7 The Way Lies North ...... 20 The Geography of Memory ...... 31 Natives & Settlers, Now & Then ...... 37 We Feel Good Out Here ...... 9 The Government and Politics of the The New Buffalo ...... 38 The Western Métis ...... 47 Alberta Métis Settlements ...... 31 Night Spirits ...... 38 The Whale People ...... 20 Great Women from our First Nations ...... 12 Niwechihaw/I Help ...... 7 Which Way Should I Go? ...... 9 Grizzlies & White Guys ...... 31 No Feather, No Ink ...... 38 Will’s Garden ...... 20 Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump ...... 32 Nokum ...... 16 The World Is Our Witness ...... 48 Hidden Buffalo ...... 2 Nokum Is My Teacher ...... 16 Yamozha and His Beaver Wife ...... 10

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THE PEOPLE AND JOSH WILSON by John Reid osh Wilson’s grade nine history project Jleads him stumbling into a parallel world where Native American people have not been displaced by colonists. Instead, the People thrive in a powerful domain and co-exist with small colonies in Massachusetts and New York. Josh has only a few days to find his way back to his own world, but his quest is fraught with difficulty and danger. He and his guide Rencatha are captured by renegades but must put their personal safety aside to try and save Rencatha’s grandfather and her home settlement. Josh’s journey among leaders of the colonists and the Mahican people is an action-packed trip through an alternate history that inspires readers to question the past and rethink the present. ISBN 9781552662748 $12.95 young adult fiction appropriate for grades 5, 6 & 7 available October 2008 Roseway Publishing, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing www.fernwoodpublishing.ca

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