Métis Resources Elementary
To Borrow any of the Indigenous Education Resource Kits please email Sherry Burton sburton@saanichschools.ca and kits will be delivered and returned in district mail.
Métis Nation BC - Literacy Resource List Teacher’s Guide
The Métis People: Giving Voice to a Proud Heritage binder
Grade 4 Métis Cross-Curricular Unit
The Métis of British Columbia: Culture, History, and the Contemporary Community DVD
The Métis of British Columbia: Music and Dance DVD
Steps in Time II: Métis Dance & Instruction DVD
DVD Resource Guide: The Métis in British Columbia: Culture, History and the Contemporary Community
Blue Infinite Flag
Métis Sash
A Name for a Métis by Deborah L Delaronde
What’s in a name? A little boy might be known as Great Big Nose because he’s so nosy, or Big Ears because he listens so carefully. Yet there’s one name that might suit him even better!
Replacement Cost: $11.00
Better That Way by Rita Bouvier
A poem that captures the essence of growing up. Includes a narration CD in English and Michif.
Replacement Cost: $13.00
Dancing in My Bones by Wilfred Burton & Anne Patton
Dancing in My Bones, the sequel to the highly successful book Fiddle Dancer, returns us to the story of a young Métis boy named Nolin as he continues to discover his Métis heritage.
Replacement Cost: $15.00
Fiddler Dancer by Anne Patton & Wilfred Burton
Fiddle Dancer tells the tale of a young Métis boy and his growing awareness of his Métis heritage and identity while his “Moushoom” teaches him to dance.
Replacement Cost: $15.00
Flour Sack Flora by Deborah L. Delaronde
Flora wants more than anything to be able to go to town, but she doesn’t have a pretty dress to wear. With the help of her grandmother Flora finds that anything is possible.
Replacement Cost: $11.00
I’m Métis Colouring & Activity Book
Replacement Cost: No Longer in Print
Li Minoush (Thomas and his Cat) by Bonnie Murray
When Thomas feels left out because all his friends have pets, he asks his mother for a cat. She agrees, and when she calls it Minoush she introduces her son to the Michif language.
Replacement Cost: $11.00
Li saennchur fleshii de michif (Thomas and the Métis Sash) by Bonnie Murray
When Thomas works on an art project for school his mother tells him about the history of the Metis Sash and what it means to the Metis people today.
Replacement Cost: $11.00
Métis Cookbook
Replacement Cost: No Longer in Print
Métis Christmas Mittens by Leah Marie Dorion
Award-winning author and illustrator Leah Marie Dorion takes readers back to the Métis tradition of making mittens for loved ones. Métis Christmas Mittens is a touching ode to Métis family life accompanied by Leah’s distinctive and evocative art.
Replacement Cost: $15.00
Owls See Clearly at Night by Julie Flett
This picture book is a small glimpse, from A to Z, of some of the sights and sounds of the Michif language and its speakers.
Replacement Cost: $19.00
Pepere Played the Fiddle by Linda Ducharme
Pepere Played the Fiddle is a celebration of Metis culture including “joie de vivre”, music and dance, family and love of the fiddle. It is based on Metis family life in the late 1940s.
Replacement Cost: $11.00
Red Parka Mary by Peter Eyvinsdon
Why is the little boy so afraid when he walks past his neighbour’s house? In this heartwarming story, the boy learns that a wise and wonderful new friend may only be a smile away.
Replacement Cost: $11.00
Road Allowance Kitten by Wilfred Burton
Based on a true story, Road Allowance Kitten gives readers a glimpse into the history of the Road Allowance Métis and their forced removal from their humble, but beloved, homes on the road allowance.
Replacement Cost: $15.00
The Bannock Book by Linda Ducharme
A young Metis girl helps her mother bake bannock for grandfather, who has diabetes. This is a lovely and warm-hearted story that helps young readers understand diabetes and the importance of eating well.
Replacement Cost: $11.00
The Flower Beadwork People by Sherry Farrell Racette
A vibrantly-illustrated social history of the Metis, this book was originally produced as a special project to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the 1885 Resistance.
Replacement Cost: $15.00
The Giving Tree by Leah Dorion
Boyhood reminisces of Moushoom as he describes finding the great giving tree with his mother and father. Includes CD.
Replacement Cost: $15.00
The Story of the Rabbit Dance by Jeanne Pelletier
Metis trapper Jacques witnesses the creation of the Rabbit Dance.
Replacement Cost: $10.00
Tumaas ekwa li Michif Sharey (Thomas and the Métis Cart) by Bonnie Murray
Thomas needs to make a wheeled vehicle for science class. When his father helps him build a Red River Cart, Thomas learns another fascinating aspect of his Metis history.
Replacement Cost: $11.00
The Journey of the Métis Red River Cart by Ramona Carlson & Beverly Smith
Build your own cart kit
A Métis New Year by Leah Marie Dorion
Replacement Cost: $7.50
A Red River Cart by Leah Marie Dorion
Replacement Cost: $7.50
Giving Thanks by Leah Marie Dorion
Replacement Cost: $7.50
I Can Bead by Leah Marie Dorion
Replacement Cost: $7.50
Métis People Travel by Leah Marie Dorion
Replacement Cost: $7.50
My Métis Sash by Leah Marie Dorion
Replacement Cost: $7.50
Two Métis Vests by Leah Marie Dorion
Replacement Cost: $7.50
Ways to Carry a Métis Baby by Leah Marie Dorion
Replacement Cost: $7.50