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Discover the amazing story of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the end of the Ice Age to the arrival of the Europeans.

Great athletes from our First Nations profiles thirteen outstanding athletes in such diverse sports as figure skating, race car driving, skiing, and bowling.

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…

The story of Gabriel Dumont, a great Metis leader of the Northwest Resistance.

The story of Pauline Johnson, a Canadian poet in 19th century.

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…

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.…

On her way to school one day, Sarah is relieved to find the book she’d dropped the day before – shortly after an encounter with a bear. But when she opens it, the story within, about the Cree chief Mistahimaskwa, comes alive. It takes Sarah back to the Saskatchewan Plains of 1832, where the young…

Provocative essays explore the poetry and political economy of life in Canada’s rural West.

A handmade drum gifted to him by his mother helps Ren to discover his voice and a love of singing.