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1) Red Wolf
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Red Wolf is a young First Nations boy forced to move into a residential school and assume a new identity. Paralleling his story is that of Crooked Ear, an orphaned wolf pup he has befriended. Both must learn to survive in the white man's world.
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Indigenous History: Children and Families
November Is Picture Book Month!
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
November Is Picture Book Month!
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
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When Shi-shi-etko returns for her second year at a residential school, she is accompanied by her six-year-old brother Shin-chi, to whom she gives the gift of a tiny cedar canoe to help him get through the difficult months until summer.
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Indigenous History: Children and Families
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
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Violet Pesheens struggles to adjust to her new life at residential school. She fears forgetting the things she treasures most, such as her traditional customs and Anishnabe language.
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Indigenous History: Children and Families
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
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When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story...
8) White Raven
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Little Wolf (Teoni Spathelfer) volume 1
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Little Wolf's mother, White Raven, visits her daughter and grandaughters often, and shares her sad story of being one of 150,000 Indigenous children from across Canada who were forced to attend residential school. By sharing her story, White Raven begins to heal and brings the family closer together.
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Indigenous History: Children and Families
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
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When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened and homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. A picture book based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to....
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"After moving from an all-French Indigenous community to the English community of St. George's when he was a little boy, Poppa's life as a young man was very sad. He was treated badly by his schoolteachers and some other children in the town. Years later, when his grandson wants to bring him into school to play his drum for the class, Poppa is nervous but goes anyway. He is relieved to see he is welcomed and even encouraged to share his knowledge...
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2024 Silver Birch Express Award Nominees: Grades 3-4 Fiction/Non-Fiction
Indigenous History: Children and Families
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
Indigenous History: Children and Families
Orange Shirt Day/Truth & Reconciliation Day/Residential Schools - Children
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The true story of how Indigenous girls at a Canadian residential school sewed secret pockets into their dresses to hide food and survive. Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort for young Mary. Speaking Dakelh was forbidden and the nuns and priest were always watching, ready to punish. Mary and the other...
13) Abalone woman
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Little Wolf (Teoni Spathelfer) volume 3
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"A vivid dream teaches Little Wolf about courage and acceptance of those who are different, and inspires her to show her daughters their classmates how to be proud of their diverse cultural backgrounds. Throughout her life, Little Wolf has been troubled by the injustice she sees all around her. When she was young, she was bullied for her Indigenous heritage. Her mother, White Raven, spent ten years in a residential school, separated from her family...
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