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47000 Beads

When Peyton doesn’t want to wear a dress or dance at Pow Wow anymore, her Auntie finds regalia and an elder to help her navigate her Two-Spirit identity.

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Kamik’s First Sled

With some help from his grandmother, Jake learns how to train his dog Kamik to pull its first sled.

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Cottagers and Indians

An Anishnawbe man, Arthur Copper, decides to repopulate the lakes of his home Territory with manoomin, or wild rice – much to the disapproval of the local non-Indigenous cottagers, in particular the formidable Maureen Poole. Based on real-life events in Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes region, Cottagers and Indians infuses contemporary conflicts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous sensibilities…

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Dead White Writer on the Floor

A funny yet thought-provoking play about identity politics in which Pocahontas, Tonto, and other native characters rewrite their stereotyped roles.

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The First Blade of Sweetgrass

In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making.

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If I Ever Get Out Of Here

Seventh-grader Lewis “Shoe” Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites—and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.

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Awasis and the World-Famous Bannock

“As young Awâsis searches for the ingredients to make Kohkum’s world-famous bannock recipe, they run into a variety of other-than-human relatives that help them along in their journey. Includes a pronunciation guide and Kohkum’s world-famous bannock recipe at the back of the book.”–

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The Circle of Caring and Sharing

When two red foxes have an argument that breaks apart their community, a gentle buffalo takes a braid of sweetgrass to a local Elder and asks her to help with a sharing circle for all the animals.

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