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1.
Series:
The Mask That Sang
Paperback
Susan Currie
9781772600131
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 13
Sep 06, 2016
Cass and her mom have always stood on their own against the world. Then Cass learns she had a grandmother, one who was never part of her life, one who has just died and left her and her mother the first house they could call their own. But with it comes more questions than answers: Why is her Mom so determined not to live there? Why was this relative kept so secret? And what is the unusual mask, forgotten in a drawer, trying to tell her? Strange dreams, strange voices, and strange incidents all lead Cass closer to solving the mystery and making...
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2.
Series:
Niwechihaw / I Help
Bilingual edition
Hardcover
Caitlin Nicholson
9780888998125
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 2 - 5
Feb 01, 2008
This simple story in Cree and English explores a young child's relationship to his kuhkom, his grandmother, as they go for a walk in the bush to pick rosehips. The young boy follows his grandmother, walking, listening, picking, praying, eating, just as she does. In doing so, he absorbs the rich cultural traditions and values of his Cree heritage.
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3.
Series:
West Coast Wild
A Nature Alphabet
Hardcover
Deborah Hodge
9781554984404
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 01, 2015
This stunning nature alphabet book explores the fascinating ecosystem of the Pacific west coast — a magnificent area that combines an ancient rainforest, a rugged beach and a vast, open ocean, and where whales, bears, wolves, eagles and a rich variety of marine species thrive in an interconnected web of life.Author Deborah Hodge has spent more than forty years on the west coast, frequently visiting the Pacific Rim region, and she knows it intimately. From A to Z she describes in vivid language the rainforest, ocean and beach, and a great variet...
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Series:
Tecumseh
Hardcover
James Laxer
9781554981236
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Jun 01, 2012
Longlisted for the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award Two hundred years after his death, the Shawnee chief Tecumseh is still considered one of the greatest leaders of North America's First Peoples. This richly illustrated biography tells the story of his remarkable life, culminating in the War of 1812. Tecumseh, born in 1768, lived during turbulent times: the thirteen colonies revolted against British rule, becoming the United States in 1776, and settlers had begun to push westward, rapidly encroaching on the ...
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5.
Series:
Arctic Adventures
Hardcover
Raquel Rivera
9780888997142
$18.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Grade (US) to 3
Jun 01, 2007
The land, hunting, hunger, magic and extreme weather are themes that resonate for Inuit who live in the Far North. These stories, drawn from the lives of four Inuit artists, offer young readers a glimpse into this rich, remote culture, past and present. Accompanying each story are illustrations by Jirina Marton, who has spent time in the Arctic and whose deep appreciation for its subtle beauty shines through her art. In addition to the stories, there is a feature spread on each artist with a photograph, a brief biography and a reproduction of o...
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6.
Series:
P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony
Hardcover
Scot Ritchie
9781554987184
$18.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Sep 01, 2015
It’s the day of the first salmon ceremony, and P'ésk'a is excited to celebrate. His community, the Sts'ailes people, give thanks to the river and the salmon it brings by commemorating the first salmon of the season.Framed as an exploration of what life was like one thousand years ago, P'ésk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony describes the customs of the Sts'ailes people, an indigenous group who have lived on the Harrison River in British Columbia for the last 10,000 years. Includes an introductory letter from Chief William Charlie, an illustrated ...
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Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools
The Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Findings and Calls for Action
Hardcover
Melanie Florence
9781459408661
$34.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Dec 21, 2015
Canada's residential school system for aboriginal young people is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. This book documents this subject in a format that will give all young people access to this painful part of Canadian history. In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was passed by the Legislature of the Province of Canada with the aim of assimilating First Nations people. In 1879, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald commissioned the "Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and H...
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8.
Series:
I Am Not a Number
Hardcover
Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis
9781927583944
$18.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 11
Sep 06, 2016
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she goes home for summer holidays, Irene's parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But where will they hide? And what will happen when her pare...
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9.
Series: Kids' Power Book
Lacey and the African Grandmothers
Paperback
Sue Farrell Holler
9781897187616
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 13
Oct 01, 2009
Lacey Little Bird loves spending time with Kahasi, who is like a grandmother to her. When Lacey hears about a project to help grandmothers in Africa, she decides to raise money by selling beaded purses.
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10.
Series: Kids' Power Book
Shannen and the Dream for a School
Paperback
Janet Wilson
9781926920306
$14.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 13
Oct 01, 2011
The true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat First Nation, a Northern Cree community, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979 when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building. Shannen's fight took her all the way to Parliament Hill and was taken up by children around the world. Shannen’s dream continues today with the work of the Shannen's Dream organization and those everywhere who are fighting for the rights of Aboriginal children.
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11.
Series:
An Inuksuk Means Welcome
Hardcover
Mary Wallace
9781771471374
$18.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Sep 15, 2015
An inuksuk is a stone landmark that different peoples of the Arctic region build to leave a symbolic message. Inuksuit (the plural of inuksuk) can point the way, express joy, or simply say: welcome. A central image in Inuit culture, the inuksuk frames this picture book as an acrostic: readers will learn seven words from the Inuktitut language whose first letters together spell INUKSUK. Each word is presented in English and in Inuktitut characters, with phonetic pronunciation guides provided. The words and their definitions give a sense of th...
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12.
Series: Peoples of North America
Apache
Peoples of North America
Paperback
Valerie Bodden
9781628321517
$17.00
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Feb 02, 2016
A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian tribe known as the Apache, including warrior Geronimo and conflicts such as the Camp Grant Massacre.
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13.
Series: Peoples of North America
Cherokee
Peoples of North America
Paperback
Valerie Bodden
9781628321524
$17.00
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Feb 02, 2016
A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian tribe known as the Cherokee, including chief John Ross and conflicts surrounding the Trail of Tears.
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14.
Series: Peoples of North America
Iroquois
Peoples of North America
Paperback
Steve Potts
9781628321531
$17.00
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Feb 02, 2016
A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian confederacy known as the Iroquois, including chief Hiawatha and conflicts such as the American Revolution.
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15.
Series: Peoples of North America
Navajo
Peoples of North America
Paperback
Valerie Bodden
9781628321548
$17.00
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Feb 02, 2016
A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian tribe known as the Navajo, including headman Manuelito and conflicts such as the Second Battle of Fort Defiance.
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16.
Series: Peoples of North America
Nez Perce
Peoples of North America
Paperback
Valerie Bodden
9781628321555
$17.00
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Feb 02, 2016
A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian tribe known as the Nez Perce, including Chief Joseph and conflicts such as the Battle of the Big Hole.
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Series: Peoples of North America
Sioux
Peoples of North America
Paperback
Valerie Bodden
9781628321562
$17.00
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Feb 02, 2016
A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian tribe known as the Sioux or Dakota, including warrior Crazy Horse and conflicts such as the U.S.–Dakota War.
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18.
Series:
The Wolf-Birds
Hardcover
Willow Dawson
9781771470544
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 8
Sep 15, 2015
In a story set deep in the wild winter wood, two hungry ravens fly in search of their next meal. A pack of wolves is on the hunt, too. Food is scarce, but, if they team up, the ravens and wolves just might be able to help each other. The ravens follow a pack of starving wolves on the hunt. The wolves come up empty handed – and even lose one of their own in the chase – but the ravens have better luck. The wolves hear the ravens cawing and investigate only to find an injured deer, the perfect meal! The wolves make the kill; the opportunistic ra...
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Series:
A Salmon for Simon
New edition
Paperback
Betty Waterton
9780888992765
$7.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Apr 01, 1997
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award Simon discovers that catching a salmon is more difficult than it looks. A simple, touching and multi-award-winning story with evocative watercolor illustrations.
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20.
Series:
Ancient Thunder
Paperback
Leo Yerxa
9781554981274
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) to K
Feb 01, 2012
Winner of the Governor General's Award A beautiful and visionary book, Ancient Thunder celebrates wild horses and the natural world of the prairies. Using an extraordinary technique, Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, makes paper look like leather, so that his illustrations seem to be painted on leather shirts. The art is accompanied by a rich song of praise for the wild horses that came to play such an important role in the lives of the First Peoples. Years in the making, the book is truly a work of art — one that reflects Yerxa's sense...
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Series:
Finders Keepers
3rd edition
Paperback
Andrea Spalding
9781459737525
$11.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Jan 28, 2017
CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2017) Selection • 1996 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize — Shortlisted • 1996 Violet Downey IODE Book Award — Shortlisted • 1997 Silver Birch Award — Shortlisted It all started with an ancient arrowhead in an Alberta field. While walking through a field, Danny finds an 8,000-year-old arrowhead. After he shows his friend Joshua, who lives on the Peigan reserve at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, the two go on buffalo hunts, powwows, archaeological digs, and break in to the local museum. Grappling...
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Series: PathFinders
Abnormal
Paperback
Gary Robinson
9781939053077
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Aug 15, 2014
Book one of the Billy Buckhorn series introduces a Cherokee teen who uses his supernatural abilities to solve mysteries. In Abnormal, Billy is struck by lightning while fishing with his friend Chigger. He survives the lightning strike but begins to experience an enhanced level of ESP. Billy is labeled "abnormal" by one of his teachers after he uncovers an unsavory secret from the teacher's past. What no one suspects is the teacher is a shape-shifter who becomes a raven that gains strength from his victims' fear. When Billy confronts the teacher...
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Series: First Nations Book for Young Readers
Gray Wolf's Search
Hardcover
Bruce Swanson
9780977918317
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 10
Mar 01, 2007
Young Gray Wolf lives on the Pacific Northwest coast with the Wolf Clan. His uncle, the clan shaman, tells Gray Wolf that his future success depends on completing an important task—he must find a very important person and get to know him well.
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Series: PathFinders
No Name
Paperback
Tim Tingle
9781939053060
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Aug 15, 2014
Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story "No Name," this modern adaptation features a present-day Choctaw teenager surviving tough family times--his mother splits, leaving him with a mean-spirited, abusive father. The one place the teen can find peace is on the neighborhood basketball court. But after a violent confrontation with his father, the teen runs away, only to return home to find an unexpected hiding spot in his own backyard. His hiding spot becomes his home for weeks, until the help and encouragement of a basketball coach, a Cherokee...
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Series:
A Coyote Columbus Story
Paperback
Thomas King
9780888998309
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 8
Sep 01, 2007
A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from a Native point of view turns this tale on its ear! Coyote, the trickster, creates the world and all the creatures in it. She is able to control all events to her advantage until a funny-looking red-haired man named Columbus changes her plans. He is unimpressed by the wealth of moose, turtles and beavers in Coyote’s land. Instead he is interested in the human beings he can take to sell in Spain. Thomas King uses a bag of literary tricks to shatter the stereotypes surrounding Columbus’s voyages....
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Series: PathFinders
Thunder on the Plains
Paperback
Gary Robinson
9781939053008
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Apr 05, 2013
After two years, middle-school student Danny Wind is still not over his father?s death. When his mom marries a white man and they move to a new ?white bread? neighborhood, Danny?s life changes for the worse. After he acts out and gets suspended from school, Danny?s mom decides to send him to a summer survival camp for American Indian teens on the reservation where his father grew up. Discover what happens when Danny gets involved in a secret plan to rescue bison from Yellowstone National Park.
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Series:
Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner
Paperback
Tim Tingle
9781939053039
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Jun 01, 2013
Danny Blackgoat is a teenager in 1864 Navajo country when United States soldiers burn down his home, kill his sheep, capture his family, and force them all to walk at gun point to an Army fort far from their homeland. This forced exodus of the Navajo people was called the Long Walk of 1864, and during the journey, Danny is labeled a troublemaker and given the name Fire Eye. Refusing to accept captivity, he is sent to Fort Davis,Texas, a Civil War prisoner outpost. There he battles bullying fellow prisoners, rattlesnakes, and abusive soldiers, u...
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Series:
Little Brother of War
Paperback
Gary Robinson
9781939053022
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Jun 01, 2013
Sixteen year old Mississippi Choctaw Randy Cheska lived most of his young life in the shadow of his older football-hero brother, Jack. After Jack is tragically killed while serving in Iraq, Randy? father puts even more pressure on Randy to excel in football. Randy has absolutely no desire or skills to play high school sports but when he discovers that he? good at stickball and loves the game, Randy jumps at the chance to play when its offered. His father considers the sport a relic of the Choctaw past when it was known as the Little Brother of ...
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Series: PathFinders
Tribal Jouney
Paperback
Gary Robinson
9781939053015
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Apr 05, 2013
After a bad car accident, Jason is left with one paralyzed leg. He?s lucky to have survived, but he?s not sure he can handle life confined to a wheelchair. Even when he was protecting his mom and siblings from his drunken father, or escaping from home to be with his friends, he never imagined having to deal with anything like this. When he becomes part of the Raven Canoe Family and learns to ?pull? a canoe, his outlook on life begins to change.
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Series:
Lessons from Mother Earth
Paperback
Elaine McLeod
9780888998323
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 2 - 5
Apr 01, 2010
Tess has visited her grandmother many times without really being aware of the garden. But today they step outside the door and Tess learns that all of nature can be a garden. And if you take care of the plants that are growing, if you learn about them -- understanding when they flower, when they give fruit, and when to leave them alone -- you will always find something to nourish you. This gentle story demonstrates the First Nations' tradition of taking care of Mother Earth.
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Series: PathFinders
Son Who Returns
Paperback
Jeff Ball
9781939053046
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Jan 10, 2014
Fifteen-year-old Mark Centeno is of Chumash, Crow, Mexican, and Filipino ancestry - he calls himself "four kinds of brown." When Mark goes to live with his Chumash grandmother on the reservation in central California, he discovers a rich world of family history and culture that he knows very little about. He also finds a pathway to better understanding a part of his own identity: the world of powwow dancing. Riveted by the traditional dancers and feeling the magnetic pull of the drums, Mark begins the training and other preparations necessary f...
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Series: PathFinders
Danny Blackgoat, Rugged Road to Freedom
Paperback
Gary Robinson
9781939053053
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Jan 10, 2014
This second volume of a three-part series continues the dramatic story of Danny Blackgoat, a Navajo teenager who, after being labeled a troublemaker, is taken prisoner during the Long Walk of 1864. Danny escaped from Fort Davis in volume one (Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner), but he must still face many obstacles in order to rescue his family and find freedom. Whether it's soldiers and bandits chasing him or the dangers of the harsh desert climate, Danny ricochets from one bad situation to the next, but his bravery doesn't falter and he never ...
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Series: PathFinders
Walking Two Worlds
Paperback
Joseph Bruchac
9781939053107
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Mar 01, 2015
Hasanoanda was his Indian name. But in mission school he became "Ely Parker." He encountered racism and deceit but did not give up his quest to walk between two worlds. This inspiring story explores the early education of a famous Native American who gained greatness in the white man's world while staying true to his Seneca people.
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Series: PathFinders
Fire Fight
Paperback
Jacqueline Guest
9781939053114
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 01, 2015
After her ikusin (grandmother) dies, Kai Hunter, a part-Navajo, part-Stoney Nakoda 16-year-old, runs away to Banff, Alberta, to avoid being placed in a foster home. Kai lies her way into a new identity, a job, and a safe place to live. She makes new friends and volunteers with a rapid attack crew for the forestry service. She even meets a great guy named Rory, who's into motorcycles, just like her - and who seems to be into her, too. But Kai is scared of being found out, and she isn't sure that she can trust all of her new friends...or that she...
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Series:
The Red Sash
Hardcover
Jean E. Pendziwol
9780888995896
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 8
Aug 07, 2005
The Red Sash is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago. His father spends the long winter months as a guide, leading voyageurs into the northwest to trade with native people for furs. Now it is Rendezvous, when the voyageurs paddle back to Fort William with their packs of furs, and North West Company canoes come from Montreal bringing supplies for the next season. It is a time of feasting and dancing and of voyageurs trading stories around the campfire. With pr...
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Series:
Tuk and the Whale
Paperback
Raquel Rivera
9780888998910
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 10
Apr 01, 2008
This story is set on the eastern coast of Baffin Island in the early decades of the 1600s. Told from the point of view of a young Inuit boy, Tuk, it imagines what might have happened if the people of Tuk's Baffin Island winter camp had encountered European whalers, blown far north from their usual whaling route. Both the Inuit hunters and the whalers prize the bowhead whale, but for very different reasons. Together, they set out on a hunt, though they are all on new and uncertain ground. Scrupulously researched, this beautifully told story wil...
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Series:
Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
Paperback
Leo Yerxa
9781554981243
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 8
Sep 15, 2012
A beautifully illustrated, award-winning picture book from Leo Yerxa, an artist of Ojibway ancestry, now available in paperback.Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall takes us on a dreamlike voyage into nature at that secret moment when fall turns into winter. We find ourselves in a kind of paradise, which humans may be part of but which they have not despoiled. A father and son lead us through forests, down rivers, over lakes and ponds. Along the way we experience the primordial beauty of the physical world. This is nature as we all feel in our hea...
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Series:
Alego
Hardcover
Ningeokuluk Teevee
9780888999436
$17.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Aug 01, 2009
Written and illustrated by Ningeokuluk Teevee, one of the most interesting young artists in Cape Dorset, home to the great tradition of Inuit art, this is a beautifully simple story, written in Inuktitut and English, about a young Inuit girl who goes to the shore with her grandmother to collect clams for supper. Along the way she discovers tide pools brimming with life – a bright orange starfish, a creepy-crawly thing with many legs called an ugjunnaq, a hornshaped sea snail and a sculpin. This is an enchanting and utterly authentic introductio...
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Series:
Grandpa's Girls
Hardcover
Nicola Campbell
9781554980840
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) from P - 2
Sep 24, 2011
A finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize A young girl delights in a visit to her grandpa’s farm. She and her cousins run through the fields, explore the root cellar where the salmon and jars of fruit are stored, swing on a rope out the barn loft window, visit the Appaloosa in the corral and tease the neighbor’s pig. The visit is also an opportunity for this child to ask Grandpa what her grandmother,Yayah, was like, and explore the “secret room,”with its old wooden trunk of ribbons, medals and photos of Grandpa ...
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Series:
Idaa Trail
Hardcover
Wendy Stephenson
9780888995766
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 10
Jun 01, 2005
Etseh, Etsi and their three grandchildren have just embarked on a month long canoe trip in the Northwest Territories -- from the town of Rae to Hottah Lake. They are following the Idaa trail, a trade route that the Dogrib people have traveled for hundreds of years. Etseh and Etsi traveled the Idaa trail when they were children and as they paddle north with their grandchildren they pass along their knowledge of special sites along the way and explain how their people survived in the old days -- building birch bark canoes, fishing with willow li...
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Series:
Very Last First Time
Hardcover
Jan Andrews
9780888990433
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 9
Oct 01, 1987
Eva's journey is a very special one. Today, she will walk on the bottom of the sea alone. She will go into the cave that is under the ice when the tide is out. She will search for mussels as her people have done for centuries. She will find herself in darkness. She will find too she has brought what she needs with her. She will come again into the light.
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42.
Series:
Not My Girl
Hardcover
Christy Jordan-Fenton
9781554516254
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
Jan 09, 2014
Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected. Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders’ school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family—but her mother stands still as a stone. This strange, skinny child, with her hair cropped short, can’t be her daughter. “Not my girl!” she says angrily. Margaret’s years at school have changed her. Now ten years old, she has forgotten her language and the skills to hunt and fish. She can’t eve...
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43.
Series:
Not My Girl
Paperback
Christy Jordan-Fenton
9781554516247
$9.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
Jan 09, 2014
Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected. Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders’ school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family—but her mother stands still as a stone. This strange, skinny child, with her hair cropped short, can’t be her daughter. “Not my girl!” she says angrily. Margaret’s years at school have changed her. Now ten years old, she has forgotten her language and the skills to hunt and fish. She can’t eve...
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Series:
As Long as the Rivers Flow
Paperback
Larry Loyie
9780888996961
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (US) to 3
Sep 04, 2005
Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction In the 1800s, the education of First Nations children was taken on by various churches, in government-sponsored residential schools. Children were forcibly taken from their families in order to erase their traditional languages and cultures. As Long as the Rivers Flow is the story of Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school. It is a time of learning and adventure. He cares for an abandoned baby owl and watches his grandmother make winter moccasins. He helps ...
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45.
Series:
Shi-shi-etko
Hardcover
Nicola Campbell
9780888996596
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Jul 03, 2005
Winner of the Anskohk Aboriginal Children's Book of the Year Award. Finalist for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend residential school. She spends her last days at home treasuring the beauty of her world -- the dancing sunlight, the tall grass, each shiny rock, the tadpoles in the creek, her grandfather's paddle song. Her mother, father and grandmother, each in turn, sha...
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46.
Series:
Shin-chi's Canoe
Hardcover
Nicola Campbell
9780888998576
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2008
Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey in the back of a cattle truck, Shi-shi-etko tells her brother all the things he must remember: the trees, the mountains, the rivers and the salmon. Shin-chi k...
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Series:
The Huron Carol
Hardcover
Ian Wallace
9781554983940
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Grade (CAN) from K
Oct 01, 2013
Renowned children's book illustrator Ian Wallace brings his masterful ability to paint landscape and his cultural sensitivity to The Huron Carol, a beautiful and unusual song with a rich history. In the early 1600s Father Jean de Brébeuf came to Canada from his native France as a Jesuit missionary. He settled among the Huron, or Ouendat, people in what is now Midland, Ontario. Despite his missionary zeal, Brébeuf was sensitive to the people with whom he lived. He learned their language and he wrote, in Huron, the original version of this famous...
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48.
Series:
My Name is Seepeetza
Paperback
Shirley Sterling
9780888991652
$10.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Nov 01, 1992
At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable. An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.
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Series:
Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox
Hardcover
Danielle Daniel
9781554987504
$16.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2015
In this introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals, young children explain why they identify with different creatures such as a deer, beaver or moose. Delightful illustrations show the children wearing masks representing their chosen animal, while the few lines of text on each page work as a series of simple poems throughout the book.In a brief author’s note, Danielle Daniel explains the importance of totem animals in Anishinaabe culture and how they can also act as animal guides for young children seeking to understand themselv...
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Series: PathFinders
Long Run
Paperback
Joseph Bruchac
9781939053091
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Mar 15, 2016
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Series: PathFinders
Billy Buckhorn: Paranormal
Paperback
Gary Robinson
9781939053084
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Mar 01, 2015
In this second installment in the series, Billy and his friend Chigger continue their adventures in a hidden cave. After a horrifying accident at the cave, Billy is pronounced clinically dead on an operating table. After being revived, he discovers an ability to see and speak with the spirits of the dead including his deceased Cherokee grandmother. When Chigger becomes possessed by an alien creature, Billy knows he must return to the cave to save his friend. What he doesn't know is that the Horned Serpent known to the Cherokees as Uktena is lyi...
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Series: PathFinders
Billy Buckhorn: Supranormal
Paperback
Gary Robinson
9781939053121
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Sep 01, 2015
Billy Buckhorn's uncanny intuition became apparent at an early age. In the course of this exciting series, Billy's supernatural abilities grow and develop, and his reputation as a gifted "holy man" in the Old Way spreads throughout the Cherokee Nation. In book 3, Supranormal, Billy and his grandfather Wesley face a deadly, ancient beast that's poised to take control of the world. While Wesley and Billy summon aid from the spirit realms, Billy's father, a college professor, puts together an archaeological team to help out - and to document the u...
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Series: PathFinders
Danny Blackgoat: Dangerous Passage
Paperback
Tim Tingle
9781939053152
$12.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Mar 15, 2017
During the Civil War, the United States Army imprisoned thousands of Navajos in unsafe conditions at Fort Sumner. Through the eyes of teenager Danny Blackgoat, readers experience how the Diné people struggled to survive. In the concluding novel of the Danny Blackgoat trilogy, the major characters appear in a final scene of reckoning. Danny Blackgoat must face the charge of stealing a horse from Fort Davis––or reveal that his old friend, Jim Davis, stole the horse to help Danny escape. The penalty for horse theft in the 1860s? Death by hanging. ...
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Series:
Rez Rebel
Paperback
Melanie Florence
9781459411999
$12.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Apr 28, 2017
Floyd Twofeathers has always trusted his mom, a traditional healer, and his dad, hereditary chief of their band, to take care of the people on their reserve. But a lack of educational and career opportunities, medical support and counselling has left young people feeling that they have no future. As suicides pile up, Floyd finds that his friends and kids he knows are taking their own lives because they feel that they have no future — but his father refuses to listen to Floyd's attempts to find a realistic solution. When Floyd's father is overwh...
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Series: An Algonguin Quest Novel
Algonquin Sunset
An Algonquin Quest Novel
Paperback
Rick Revelle
9781459737020
$12.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12 - 15
Jun 17, 2017
Anokì and his sister Pangì Mahingan have grown up, and now face a decision that will change their lives forever. Twelve years after Mahingan was wounded battling for his life against the Haudenosaunee warrior known as Ö:nenhste Erhar (Corn Dog), we rejoin his family and learn what fate held for him. Now, his children, Anokì and Pangì Mahingan, along with their twin cousins Makwa and Wàbek, are grown and have adult responsibilities. Still living with their Algonquin family, they have become a formidable fighting unit with the addition of three...
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Series:
Turtle Island
The Story of North America's First People
Paperback
Eldon Yellowhorn
9781554519439
$16.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 11
Sep 12, 2017
Unlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like pre-contact. The title, Turtle Island, refers to a Native myth that explains how North and Central America were formed on the back of a turtle. Based on archeological finds and scientific research, we now have a clearer picture of how the Indigenous people lived. Using that knowledge, the authors take the reader back as far as 14,000 years ago to...
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Series:
Native American Thought of It
Amazing Inventions and Innovations
3rd edition
Paperback
Rocky Landon
9781554511549
$9.95
Feb 01, 2013
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Series:
Stolen Words
Hardcover
Melanie Florence
9781772600377
$17.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
Sep 05, 2017
The story of the beautiful relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks her grandfather how to say something in his language – Cree – he admits that his language was stolen from him when he was a boy. The little girl then sets out to help her grandfather find his language again. This sensitive and warmly illustrated picture book explores the intergenerational impact of the residential school system that separated young Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and lang...
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Series:
The Water Walker
Bilingual edition
Hardcover
Joanne Robertson
9781772600384
$16.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
Sep 05, 2017
The story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother (Nokomis) Josephine-ba Mandamin and her great love for Nibi (water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect Nibi for future generations, and for all life on the planet. She, along with other women, men, and youth, have walked around all the Great Lakes from the four salt waters, or oceans, to Lake Superior. The walks are full of challenges, and by her example Josephine-ba invites us all to take up our responsibility to protect our water, the giver of life, and to protect our planet f...
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Series:
Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown
Bilingual edition
Hardcover
Angnakuluk Friesen
9781554988839
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Sep 01, 2017
The northern lights shine, women gather to eat raw caribou meat and everyone could be family in this ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut.Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen collaborate on this story about what it’s like to grow up in an Inuit community in Nunavut. Every line about the hometown in this book will have readers thinking about what makes their own hometowns unique. With strong social studies curriculum connections, Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / ??? ????????? ???????? / Only in M...
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