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Tacheté et Mouchetée célèbrent l'Action de grâce

Friedman, Laurie B., 1964-


Traduction de : Spots and Stripes celebrate Thanksgiving. C'est l'action de Grâce! Tacheté et Mouchetée sont à la maison pour faire la cuisine, mais ils ont des idées diffÃ©rentes sur ce qu'il faut cuisiner. Est-ce que le chien et le chat vont découvrir une manière de montrer leur gratitude ensemble?
Date Published:2022

The truth about stories : a native narrative

King, Thomas, 1943-


Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling.
Date Published:2003

Inuit Spirit : a colouring book

Arnaktauyok, Germaine


This colouring book features dozens of line drawings by renowned Inuit artist Germaine Arnaktauyok, followed by information on Germaine's own artistic process and her unique drawing style inspired by pointillism. Perfect for art lovers and avid colouring fans alike.
Date Published:2016

Sacred smoke : the ancient art of smudging for modern times

McCampbell, Harvest, 1956-


Smudging is the burning of herbs as a spiritual practice. In this revised edition of her book on smudging, the author explains and illustrates this integral part of traditional Native American life. She also offers advice on how to reclaim traditions and find personal healing rituals.
Date Published:2002

Adventures of Rabbit and Bear Paws. 2, The voyageurs /

Solomon, Chad.


"Based on the Seven Grandfathers." Rabbit and Bear Paws is set in 18th century colonized North America. We follow the story of two mischievous Ojibwa brothers as they play pranks and have amazing adventures using a traditional Ojibwa medicine that transforms them into animals for a short time. Looking for excitement and adventure, Rabbit and Bear Paws decide to help the voyageurs to take their furs from Lake of the Woods to Montreal and experience all the trials and tribulations of what life is like as a voyageur. Our young heroes face the life of a voyageur with bravery, as they are confronted by thieves and dangers around every river bend.
Date Published:2008

"Based on the Seven Grandfathers." Rabbit and Bear Paws is set in 18th century colonized North America. We follow the story of two mischievous Ojibwa brothers as they play pranks and have amazing adventures using a traditional Ojibwa medicine that transforms them into animals for a short time. Looking for excitement and adventure, Rabbit and Bear Paws decide to help the voyageurs to take their furs from Lake of the Woods to Montreal and experience all the trials and tribulations of what life is like as a voyageur. Our young heroes face the life of a voyageur with bravery, as they are confronted by thieves and dangers around every river bend.

Date Published:2008

Residential schools : with the words and images of survivors

Loyie, Oskiniko Larry, 1933-


A National history--cover. Honours the survivors, the former students, who attended residential schools. Offers a first-person perspective of the residential school system in Canada, as it shares the memories of more than 70 survivors from across Canada as well as 125 archival and contemporary images (65 black & white photographs, 51 colour, some never before published). Expresses the truths about residential school experiences and honours the survivors. Along with the survivors voices, are the evocative, archival photographs provided by the Shingwauk Residential Schools Research Centre with the assistance of curator Krista McCracken. Begins with the moving introduction by Larry Loyie, and moves to seven chapters that explore the purpose of this school system; cultures and traditions; leaving home; life at school the half-day system; the dark side of the schools; friendship and laughter coping with a new life; changing world--the healing begins; and an afterword. A detailed, full colour map showing residential schools, timeline with key dates, glossary, and a helpful index (including names of survivors and schools).
Date Published:2014

A National history--cover. Honours the survivors, the former students, who attended residential schools. Offers a first-person perspective of the residential school system in Canada, as it shares the memories of more than 70 survivors from across Canada as well as 125 archival and contemporary images (65 black & white photographs, 51 colour, some never before published). Expresses the truths about residential school experiences and honours the survivors. Along with the survivors voices, are the evocative, archival photographs provided by the Shingwauk Residential Schools Research Centre with the assistance of curator Krista McCracken. Begins with the moving introduction by Larry Loyie, and moves to seven chapters that explore the purpose of this school system; cultures and traditions; leaving home; life at school the half-day system; the dark side of the schools; friendship and laughter coping with a new life; changing world--the healing begins; and an afterword. A detailed, full colour map showing residential schools, timeline with key dates, glossary, and a helpful index (including names of survivors and schools).

Date Published:2014

Kekwan etakwak mîkisîhk? = What's in a bead?

Borgford, Kelsey,


There are many stories in a bead. We must listen to the stories they tell us. Tessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says that's because Kohkom spends her days sewing beautiful beads onto smoked hides. Inspired, Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beading, but first she must listen and learn about the many stories held in a bead.
Date Published:2024

The seven sacred teachings of White Buffalo Calf Woman = Niizhwaaswi aanike'iniwendiwin : waabishiki mashkode bizhikiins ikwe

Bouchard, Dave, 1952-


May include multlingual DVD. The Seven Sacred Teachings is a message of traditional values and hope for the future. The Teachings are universal to most First Nation peoples. They are a link that ties First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities together. Rooted in humility and honesty, the creators have tried to respect the cultures and traditions of all peoples. It is our hope that this telling will unite and thus heal divisions. Prophecies tell that this is the time for One Heart, One Mind and One Drum. We, readers and authors alike, are the ones we have been waiting for. There is nobody else who can revitalize our culture and values except ourselves. It is our hope that this telling might move readers toward greater courage and wisdom and ultimately toward achieving and understanding what is true in life's journey.
Date Published:2009

May include multlingual DVD. The Seven Sacred Teachings is a message of traditional values and hope for the future. The Teachings are universal to most First Nation peoples. They are a link that ties First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities together. Rooted in humility and honesty, the creators have tried to respect the cultures and traditions of all peoples. It is our hope that this telling will unite and thus heal divisions. Prophecies tell that this is the time for One Heart, One Mind and One Drum. We, readers and authors alike, are the ones we have been waiting for. There is nobody else who can revitalize our culture and values except ourselves. It is our hope that this telling might move readers toward greater courage and wisdom and ultimately toward achieving and understanding what is true in life's journey.

Date Published:2009

Ojibway clans : animal totems and spirits

Jacobson, Mark Anthony


Describes the clan system of the Ojibway First Nations people of Canada and the animal totems, or spirits that represent them.
Date Published:2012

I am not a number

Dupuis, Jenny Kay,


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 parents disobey the law?
Date Published: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 parents disobey the law?

Date Published:2016

Jusqu'au sommet de l'arbre

Friedman, Laurie B., 1964-,


Traduction de : Up a tree. Dans ce livre de comptage de rimes, les jeunes lecteurs s'aventureront aux côtés d'un jeune garçon alors qu'il grimpe à un arbre. Lorsqu'il arrive au sommet, il est ravi d'admirer la vue. Mais une rencontre inattendue avec une ruche bourdonnante le fait redescendre plus vite qu'il n'est monté!
Date Published:2023

Des vaches dans la maison

Friedman, Laurie B., 1964-


Traduction de : Cows in the house. Maggie aime vivre à la ferme, mais elle n'est pas heureuse de voir les vaches s'installer dans sa petite maison. Elles font à manger dans sa cuisine, se déguisent dans son placard, prennent des bains moussants dans sa baignoire et ne semblent avoir aucune envie de partir! Maggie arrivera-t-elle à les faire déguerpir? Dans cet amusant album de comptines, Maggie montre aux jeunes lecteurs que tout est possible avec un peu d'imagination.
Date Published:2023

Traduction de : Cows in the house. Maggie aime vivre à la ferme, mais elle n'est pas heureuse de voir les vaches s'installer dans sa petite maison. Elles font à manger dans sa cuisine, se déguisent dans son placard, prennent des bains moussants dans sa baignoire et ne semblent avoir aucune envie de partir! Maggie arrivera-t-elle à les faire déguerpir? Dans cet amusant album de comptines, Maggie montre aux jeunes lecteurs que tout est possible avec un peu d'imagination.

Date Published:2023

A Coyote Columbus story

King, Thomas, 1943-


A retelling of the Christopher Columbus story from an Indigenous point of view.
Date Published:2007

Trauma, Addiction, and Recovery : Jessie Thistle discusses his book, "From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way"


From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Episode of the Agenda aired on July 21, 2020. Following a childhood and adolescence marked by absent parents, hard drug abuse, severe homelessness, and crime and jail time, Jesse Thistle did what he once believed was impossible - he turned his life around, and in the process discovered his family's Indigenous roots. In "From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way," he explores the truly dark moments and how he gained the strength to create a new kind of life for himself.
Date Published:2020

From the TVO streaming audio-visual collection. Episode of the Agenda aired on July 21, 2020. Following a childhood and adolescence marked by absent parents, hard drug abuse, severe homelessness, and crime and jail time, Jesse Thistle did what he once believed was impossible - he turned his life around, and in the process discovered his family's Indigenous roots. In "From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way," he explores the truly dark moments and how he gained the strength to create a new kind of life for himself.

Date Published:2020

Community ties : what makes Indigenous communities strong? : exploring First Nations, Inuit and Métis cultures


Students learn about First Peoples communities in Canada and the importance of family and community in keeping cultures strong.
Date Published:2018

Sir John A. Macdonald : A Legacy of Controversy. January 2019


From the Curio channel: News in Review. Sir John A. Macdonald has become a controversial figure in modern times. Of course, he was Canada's first prime minister, responsible for bringing about Confederation and building a rail line across the country. But in this era of truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, his image has become a symbol of oppression to some. It was his policies that saw the starvation of the Prairies' Indigenous tribes, to force them on to reservations and assimilate them. And it was his government that brought in the residential school system. But is removing his statues and name from schools and buildings removing his legacy or dishonoring an historical figure?
Date Published:2019

From the Curio channel: News in Review. Sir John A. Macdonald has become a controversial figure in modern times. Of course, he was Canada's first prime minister, responsible for bringing about Confederation and building a rail line across the country. But in this era of truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, his image has become a symbol of oppression to some. It was his policies that saw the starvation of the Prairies' Indigenous tribes, to force them on to reservations and assimilate them. And it was his government that brought in the residential school system. But is removing his statues and name from schools and buildings removing his legacy or dishonoring an historical figure?

Date Published:2019

Uncovering the history of slavery in Canada


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Uncovering some hard truths about Canada's history of slavery. George Tombs is the translator of Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of Bondage, originally written by Marcel Trudel in 1960. It was one of the first history books to map out who used slaves, and painted a picture of who those slaves were. Tombs joins host Saroja Coelho to explain how he came to translate the book into English decades after it was first published, and why the legacy of slavery in Canada is still relatively unknown.
Date Published:2018

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. Uncovering some hard truths about Canada's history of slavery. George Tombs is the translator of Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of Bondage, originally written by Marcel Trudel in 1960. It was one of the first history books to map out who used slaves, and painted a picture of who those slaves were. Tombs joins host Saroja Coelho to explain how he came to translate the book into English decades after it was first published, and why the legacy of slavery in Canada is still relatively unknown.

Date Published:2018

Lucky Sam : Holiday Special 2


This episode contains Audio Description. Sam’s ‘perfect’ Chinese New Year goes sideways when his cousin loses a lucky money envelope. But could this bad luck be the best thing that could’ve happened?
Date Published:2020

Red skin, white masks : rejecting the colonial politics of recognition

Coulthard, Glen Sean, 1974-


Introduction : Subjects of empire -- The politics of recognition in colonial contexts -- For the land : the Dene nation's struggle for self-determination -- Essentialism and the gendered politics of aboriginal self-government -- Seeing red : reconciliation and resentment -- The plunge into the chasm of the past : Fanon, self-recognition, and decolonization -- Conclusion : Lessons from Idle no more : the future of indigenous activism. Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment. Beyond this, Coulthard examines an alternative politics-one that seeks to revalue, reconstruct, and redeploy Indigenous cultural practices based on self-recognition rather than on seeking appreciation from the very agents of colonialism. In addressing the core tenets of Indigenous resistance movements, like Red Power and Idle No More, Coulthard offers fresh insights into the politics of active decolonization.
Date Published:2014

Introduction : Subjects of empire -- The politics of recognition in colonial contexts -- For the land : the Dene nation's struggle for self-determination -- Essentialism and the gendered politics of aboriginal self-government -- Seeing red : reconciliation and resentment -- The plunge into the chasm of the past : Fanon, self-recognition, and decolonization -- Conclusion : Lessons from Idle no more : the future of indigenous activism. Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. In a work of critically engaged political theory, Glen Sean Coulthard challenges recognition as a method of organizing difference and identity in liberal politics, questioning the assumption that contemporary difference and past histories of destructive colonialism between the state and Indigenous peoples can be reconciled through a process of acknowledgment. Beyond this, Coulthard examines an alternative politics-one that seeks to revalue, reconstruct, and redeploy Indigenous cultural practices based on self-recognition rather than on seeking appreciation from the very agents of colonialism. In addressing the core tenets of Indigenous resistance movements, like Red Power and Idle No More, Coulthard offers fresh insights into the politics of active decolonization.

Date Published:2014

Une carte postale du Canada

Friedman, Laurie B., 1964-,


Traduction de : A postcard from Canada. "Un livre de la collection Les fleurs pour lecteurs débutants." --Page titre. Les jumeaux Camila et Carlos trouvent une carte postale dans leur boîte aux lettres d'un garçon au Canada, et ils se lancent dans une aventure magique pour voir son pays.
Date Published:2023