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Each month we will be highlighting new authentic Indigenous resources. These are just suggested recommendations. Reviews of all the print resources have been completed using the FNESC review process. Descriptions are from the publisher websites.
Please find an archive of these resources at the bottom of the page.
Pacific Northwest Plant Cards
Publisher: Strong Nations
Grades: K-12
Cautions: n/a
This 72 card set highlights 65 edible and medicinal plants. The cards describe traditional Indigenous uses and ways of harvesting each plant and feature several Indigenous languages.
Bring the cards out on walks to help identify plants and their uses and keep the old ways strong. Use these cards as an inspiration to talk to an Elder or Knowledge Keeper!
Will I See
Author: Iskwe, Erin Leslie, & David Alexander Robertson
Graphic Novelist: GMB Chomichuk
Grades: 11/12
Cautions: some graphic details & language, students may find content emotionally triggering
May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger and fantasy. While May fights against a terrible reality, she learns that there is strength in the spirit of those that have passed. But will that strength be able to save her? A story of tragedy and beauty, Will I See illuminates the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers
Author: Aubrey Jean Hanson
Grades: Professional Learning, Grade 10-12
Cautions: n/a
This book presents conversations shared with nine Indigenous writers in what is now Canada: Tenille Campbell, Warren Cariou, Marilyn Dumont, Daniel Heath Justice, Lee Maracle, Sharron Proulx-Turner, David Alexander Robertson, Richard Van Camp, and Katherena Vermette. Influenced by generations of colonization, surrounded by discourses of Indigenization, reconciliation, appropriation, and representation, and swept up in the rapid growth of Indigenous publishing and Indigenous literary studies, these writers have thought a great deal about their work.
P'esk'a and the First Salmon Ceremony
Author: Scot Ritchie
Grades: K-3
Cautions: framed 1000 years ago - clothing optional in some images
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 afterword and a glossary.
À la peche avec grand-maman
Author: Susan Avingaq
Illustrator: Maren Vsetula
Grades: 2-5
Cautions: n/a
*available in English (Fishing with Grandma)
Adventure begins when Grandma takes her two grandchildren out for a trip to the lake. After showing the kids how to prepare for a fishing trip, Grandma and the kids enjoy a day of jigging in the ice for fish. Grandma shows them every step they need to know to complete a successful fishing trip, from what clothes to wear, to how to drill and clear holes in the ice, to how to make a traditional Inuit jigging rod. By the end of the day, the kids have a yummy meal of Arctic char, and they have also learned everything they need to know to go out on the lake on their own.
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