FSL Resources

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GoodMinds is an Indigenous book seller, which offers many resources in French. You can find them on their website by sorting their books by Language. Below are a few highlighted texts, but there are hundreds more from which to choose.

Nous sommes les protecteurs de l'eau / We are Water Protectors (FR)Nous sommes les protecteurs de l'eau par Carole Lindstrom, Anishinabe/Metis de Turtle Mountain Band d'Ojibwe, illustré par Michaela Goade, Tlingit et Haida, traduit par Gérard Muguet et collaboration avec Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Innu. Avec l’aide des enseignements de sa grand-mère, une petite fille incite les siens à

Le chandail orange de Phyllis / Phyllis's Orange Shirt (FR)Le chandail orange de Phyllis (Phyllis’s Orange Shirt) is written by Phyllis Webstad who is Northern Secwépemc (Shuswap) from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation, translated by Marie-Christine Payette, and illustrated by Brock Nicol. This book is an adaptation of Phyllis’s The Orange Shirt Story. Phyllis’s Orange Shirt is suitable for 4 to 6 year-olds and while based on the original story, this version has been simplified, shortened, has a rhyming scheme and gentler images. This is Phyllis’s story of living on the Dog Creek Reserve picking berries, gardening and fishing. One day she goes to town and picks out an orange shirt, which becomes her favourite. She wears this to her first day at residential school and it has become a symbol, especially on September 30th, that every child matters, from all nations around the world, residential school survivors and children who didn’t come home.

La terre me parle: un livre sur les saisons / This Is How I Know: A Book about the Seasons) (OJ/FR)La Terre me parle : Un livre sur les saisons / This Is How I Know: A Book about the Seasons, is written by Brittany Luby, of Anishinaabe descent and raised on Treaty 3 Territory; and Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, Ojibwe Woodland artist and member of Wasauksing First Nation. In, La Terre me parle, an Anishinaabe chil