Indigenous Resources > Parents and Educators
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Jesse Wente Unreconciled
Family, Truth, And Indigenous Resistance Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples. Jesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian--a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed Wente's understanding of what it means to be a modern Indigenous person in a society still overwhelmingly colonial in its attitudes and institutions. As the child of an American father and an Anishinaabe mother, Wente grew up in Toronto with frequent visits to the reserve where his maternal relations lived. By exploring his family's history, including his grandmother's experience in residential school, and citing his own frequent incidents of racial profiling by police who'd stop him on the streets, Wente unpacks the discrepancies between his personal identity and how non-Indigenous people view him.
$22.95
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Gathering
Alex is attending her first Mi'kmaw spiritual gathering, or mawiomi. Though she is timid at first, older cousin Matthew takes her under his wing. Meeting Elders along the way, they learn about traditional Mi'kmaw culture: the sacred fire, drumming, tanning and moccasin decorating, basket- and canoe-making, and enjoy a Mi'kmaw feast. Most importantly, Alex finds her voice in the talking circle.
$22.95
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First Mosquito: Indigenous Legend for Children
While practising his spear-throwing one day, young Yax loses his spear among the trees. Ignoring his mother's warnings about the dangers of the woods, he wanders into the forest, only to learn the hard way about the value of parental wisdom. Fortunately, the members of the village are able to enlist the help of friendly spirit creatures-Creek Woman, Thunderbird, and the Lightning Snakes, who set a trap for the boy's pursuers and help transform a fierce monster into the insect now known as the mosquito.
$12.95
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First Day: A Story 0f Courage
Makwa has to go to a new school... and he doesn't want to. How will he face his first day? The First Day is one book in The Seven Teachings Stories series. The Seven Teachings of the Anishinabe-love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth-are revealed in these seven stories for children. Set in an urban landscape with Indigenous children as the central characters, these stories about home and family will look familiar to all young readers. The heartfelt stories serve as cultural bridges to non-Indigenous people wishing to familiarize themselves and their children with contemporary Indigenous culture.
$9.95
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask
From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?" to "What's it like for natives who don't look native?" to "Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?", and beyond, Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition) does exactly what its title says for young readers, in a style consistently thoughtful, personal, and engaging.
$29.99
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Every Child Matters
Learn the meaning behind the phrase, -Every Child Matters.' Orange Shirt Day founder, Phyllis Webstad, offers insights into this heartfelt movement. Every Child Matters honours the history and resiliency of Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island and moves us all forward on a path toward Truth and Reconciliation. If you're a Residential School Survivor or an Inter-generational Survivor - you matter. For the children who didn't make it home - you matter. The child inside every one of us matters. Every Child Matters.
$24.99
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Embers Ojibway Meditations
One Ojibway's Meditations Honest, evocative and articulate, Wagamese explores the various manifestations of grief, joy, recovery, beauty, gratitude, physicality and spirituality--concepts many find hard to express. Within these pages, readers will find hard-won and concrete wisdom on how to feel the joy in the everyday things.
$21.95
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Eagle's Reflection: And Other Northwest Coast Stories
Robert James Challenger presents a collection of short stories based on traditional values. Challenger's illustrations and tales reveal a world of magical birds, fish and other wildlife as they tell readers about life and the world.
$9.95
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Double Eagle
Buffalo Mountain is set to host a gold coin exhibition with dealers coming from all over, and Thumps Dreadful Water winds up with the task of making sure the event goes off without a hitch. As if he didn't already have enough to do. For starters, he and Claire Merchant are trying to work out their relationship. Should they move in together or should they continue on as they have in the past? And there's Sheriff Duke Hockney, who wants Thumps to give up landscape photography and return to law enforcement. And last but not least, Cisco Cruz, the ninja assassin, shows up in town with a fiancé in tow. Can things get any more complicated for our hero? Yes, they can.
$24.99
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Dominoes: Indigenous Art
Micqaela Jones is a Te-Moak artist. Indigenous Art Dominoes features 7 images on 28 cardboard domino pieces, each piece is 3.5x1.75", comes in a 7.25x7.25" box. Suitable for 2 years and up.
$15.00
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Decolonizing Discipline
Children, Corporal Punishment, Christian Theologies, and Reconciliation In 2015, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission released 94 Calls to Action that urged reform of policies and programs to repair the harms caused by the Indian Residential Schools. Decolonizing Discipline is a response to Call to Action 6 - the call to repeal Section 43 of Canada's Criminal Code, which justifies the corporal punishment of children. This book considers the ways that colonial Western interpretations of Christian theologies have been used over centuries to normalize violence and rationalize the physical discipline of children. Theologians, clergy, social scientists, and First Nations, Inuit, and Métis leaders and community members explore the risks that corporal punishment poses to children and examine practical, non-violent approaches to discipline.
$31.95
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Day With Yayah
Set in the Okanagon, BC, a First Nations family goes on an outing to forage for herbs and mushrooms. Grandmother passes down her knowledge of plant life to her young grandchildren.
$21.95
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Dancing with the Wheel
The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the Wheel teaches you how to apply this philosophy to your daily life through many practical exercises and ceremonies. These exercises will help you gain energy from the spirits, which can heal both humans and the earth. Through Dancing with the Wheel, the second book specifically devoted to the Medicine Wheel, you will gain an increased understanding of the wheel and its developments over the last ten years.
$33.99
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Dancing with the Cranes
Dancing with the Cranes gives an understanding of birth, life and death. Chi's momma is soon to have a baby, but Chi is having a hard time being happy about it. Chi misses Temma (her grandma), who has passed away. Chi's momma and daddy help ease the pain of losing Temma and help Chi to understand life and death as a part of nature. Chi soon finds herself feeling comforted, knowing Temma will always be a part of her and looking forward to the new baby who will be a part of their lives.
$14.95
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Coyote Wisdom
The Power of Story in Healing Lewis Mehl-Madrona explores the healing use of stories passed down from generation to generation in Native American culture and describes how we can apply this wisdom to empower and transform our own lives. A storytelling approach to transformation starts with how we were created and how we can re-create ourselves through the stories we tell. As we explore the archetypal characters and situations that populate the inner world of our stories, we can experience breakthroughs of healing and even miracles of transformation. The author also draws upon the cultures of other indigenous peoples - the Maori, East Africans, Mongolians, Aborigines, and Laplanders - to illustrate the healing use of stories throughout the world.
$18.95
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Coyote Medicine: Lessons From Native American Healing
Inspired by his Cherokee grandmother's healing ceremonies, Lewis Mehl-Madrona enlightens readers to "alternative" paths to recovery and health. Coyote Medicine isn't about eschewing Western medicine when it's effective, but about finding other answers when medicine fails: for chronic sufferers, patients not responding to medication, or "terminal" cases that doctors have given up on. In the story of one doctor's initiation into alternative ways to spiritual and physical health, Coyote Medicine provides the key to untapped healing methods available today.
$25.99
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Counting Wild Bears Board Book
Gryn White is a Haida artist from Masset, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Haida Gwaii is a rainforest that stretches over 150 islands and is abundant with wildlife. As the traditional home of the Haida people, Haida Gwaii is rich with stories, legends, and a culture that honours and respects the land and its inhabitants.
$12.00
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Colouring Journal
Northwest Coast First Nations & Native Art Colouring Journal features 14 journal pages and 16 original art designs from different Northwest Coast First Nations and Native American artists that take the reader/drawer through a journey of self reflection and design. Inside Colouring Journal, you will find pages explaining the significance and symbolism of different animals and supernatural beings, followed by questions and space to journal. Facing the journaling pages are beautifully detailed colouring pages to complement the questions for reflection.
$9.00
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Colour & Draw
Northwest Coast Native Formline. First ever Northwest Coast Native Art adult coloring book! Colour & Draw Northwest Coast Native Formline features 44 Northwest Coast artists using a variety of traditional styles and designs to create authentic interpretations of animals through indigenous formline techniques. Printed on premium paper using soy-based ink and non-toxic coatings.
$11.00
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Circle of Caring and Sharing
When two foxes, who are best friends, have a fight it upsets the whole community of animals. Kokom the Owl knows just what to do and brings together all the animals and holds a Sharing Circle
$11.95
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Chuck in the City
Chuck loves a good adventure. He proved that in Just a Walk. Now Chuck and his mom are heading to the city to visit his grandmother in her new condo. He knows he shouldn't wander off, but the lure of the lively city streets proves too much for a curious little boy to resist. Ages 6-8 New Edition
$10.95
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Chief
Mistahimaskwa On her way to school one day, Sarah is relieved to find the book she'd dropped the day before – shortly after an encounter with a bear. But when she opens it, the story within, about the Cree chief Mistahimaskwa, comes alive. It takes Sarah back to the Saskatchewan Plains of 1832, where the young boy who would become the great chief first learns the ways of his people, to the final days of his life. (Tales from Big Spirit # 7 series)
$17.95
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Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things-from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen-provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us.
$27.50
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Drew Hayden Taylor Boy in the Treehouse / The Girl Who Loved Her Horses
In "The Boy in the Treehouse," Simon, the son of an Ojibway mother and a British father, climbs into his half-finished tree house on the vision-quest his books say is necessary for him to reclaim his mother's culture. "It's a Native thing," he informs his incredulous father. "Only boys do it. It's part of becoming a man." Of course, with the threats of the police, the temptation of the barbeque next door, and the distractions of a persistent neighbourhood girl, Simon probably wouldn't recognize a vision if he fell over it. "Girl Who Loved Her Horses" is the Native name for the strange and quiet Danielle from the non-status community across the tracks, imbued with the mysterious power to draw the horse "every human being on the planet wanted but could never have." These two plays are about the process of children becoming adults.
$18.95
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