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Urban Tribes

Young, urban Natives share their diverse stories, shattering stereotypes and powerfully illustrating how Native culture and values can survive — and enrich — city life.

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Environmentalists from Our First Nations

Like the other books in the First Nations Series for Young Readers, this books offers ten short and engaging biographies of First Nations/Native activists who advocate not only for the environment but for Native rights. Their stories are full of highs and lows, triumphs and setbacks. Environmental trailblazers, these men and women are role models…

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Wisdom from our First Nations

In these fascinating biographical essays, twelve First Nation and Native American elders share stories from their lives and tell what it was like to live in a time before television, cell phones and video games. Their stories explain how their humble childhoods shaped the adults they became and the lessons they share as elders. All…

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Tales from Big Spirit: The Land of Os

When Richard’s class from Big Spirit School takes a canoe trip, he and his classmates chance upon an ederly woman. She tells them the story of her grandfather, John Ramsay, of the Sandy Bar community on Lake Winnipeg. Ramsay’s land was taken by the government and given to the new settlers from Iceland who arrived…

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The Scout: Tommy Prince

Selected by The Canadian Children’s Book Centre for inclusion in the Fall 2014 edition of Best Books for Kids & Teens and signified as a title of exceptional calibre. A search down a wooded path for a well-hit baseball turns into an encounter between Pamela and a veteran soldier standing in front of a monument.…

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