Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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2018., Primary, Crocodile Books, USA Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In the Nicola Valley of British Columbia, a First Nations family sets out to gather edible plants and mushrooms. During the outing, the grandmother, Yayah, shows the children good plants to eat, like rhubarb and celery, and those to avoid, like poison ivy. They discuss how to prepare and eat the food, and the children learn new words in their native language.
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[2014], Juvenile, Annick Press Call No: NL 920 DRE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a collection of artistic works, including essays, short stories, poetry, photographs, paintings, and drawings, by Native Americans from the United States and Canada.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Annick Press Call No: Realistic FIC Jones Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After Shane's kid sister, Destiny, commits suicide, his only solace is to turn to his friend, David, both of whom must hide their deeper relationship from their community on the Indian reservation. Shane had hoped to go to university and escape, but with his mother grieving and David refusing to leave, that hope is dashed, and he will need a miracle to find his place in the world.
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[2020]., Juvenile, 7th Generation Call No: Adventure Fic Bruchac Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: PathFinders (Summertown, Tenn.)Summary Note: Trained survival skills expert, Nick St. Francis, inadvertently witnesses a murder while traveling on a train. Thanks to his backpack, he survives being tossed overboard into the Canadian Wilderness. He soon learns the murderers are tracking him, and he must use his survival teaching and the wisdom of his Abenaki elders to stay alive.
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2016., Juvenile, Second Story Press Call No: LS E Dupeis Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Forced to attend a residential school, Irene Couchie struggles to remember who she is and the ways of her people, despite the abuse she endures.
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[2021]., Primary, Tundra Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom. A trapline is where people hunt and live off the land, and it was where Moshom grew up. As they embark on their northern journey, the child repeatedly asks his grandfather, "Is this your trapline?" This is a heartfelt story about memory, imagination and intergenerational connection that perfectly captures the experience of a young child's wonder as he is introduced to places and stories that hold meaning for his family"--Provided by publisher.
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2013., Bloomsbury Call No: REALISTIC F HAR Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1830s Canada, a thirteen-year-old Cree girl journeys westward from York Factory to the Red River valley, lured by a Norfolk trotter horse and determined to find her Scottish fur trader father.
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c1998., Juvenile, Little, Brown Call No: FIC ECK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Running away from a vicious trapper, Ben MacDonald is separated from his family and ends up on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, where he is taken in by a tribe of Metis Indians.
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[2022]., Juvenile, Annick Press Call No: NL REALISTIC F LAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A young Indigenous girl searching for a sense of home finds strength and courage in her gifts, her deepening connection to the land, and her own cultural awakening in this moving coming-of-age story. The last thing that twelve-year-old Misko wants to do is to move away from the city to spend time on the rez with her grandmother. She feels strangely compelled to go to the place where her dreams have been tugging at her to come home. Maybe she can finally find out what happened to her mother, who mysteriously disappeared when she was four years old. Misko discovers her unique ability to connect to a spirited horse named Mishtadim who is being violently broken in by the rancher next door and his son, Thomas. Although Misko and Thomas challenge one another, their friendship is forged through the taming of the wild horse. In the process, she realizes the true meaning of belonging and that you can never truly leave home. She Holds Up the Stars is a powerful story of reconciliation and the interwoven threads that connect us to family, to the land, and to our own sense of self."--
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c2005., Juvenile, House of Anansi Press ; Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West Call No: E CAM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Young Shi-shi-etko is being sent to residential school soon and she spends her last days at home enjoying nature and the teachings of her family.
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[2005]., Juvenile, House of Anansi Press Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shi-shi-etko gathers together many of the things of nature and places them into her bag of memories so that she will never forget her people and land as she prepares to go many miles away to the required residential school.
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[2008],., Primary, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shi-shi-etko returns to the Native American residential school along with her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi; but until they reunite with their family again in the summer, the two endure hunger and loneliness as they go to school, do hard work, and suffer extreme punishments.
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c2008., Juvenile, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: E CAM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Shi-shi-etko and her brother Shin-chi are sent to an Indian residential school. Draws on interviews with survivors of Indian residential schools to describe daily life at the school where they were forced to use English names, study, work, and never speak to each other.
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[2017]., Juvenile, Second Story Press Call No: 371.8 FLO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families.
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[2020]., Primary, Second Story Press Call No: 371.8 CAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Ashley meets her great-uncle by the old train tracks near their community in Nova Scotia. Ashley sees his sadness, and Uncle tells her of the day years ago when he and the other children from their community were told to board the train before being taken to residential school where their lives were changed forever. They weren't allowed to speak Mi'gmaq and were punished if they did. There was no one to give them love and hugs and comfort. Uncle also tells Ashley how happy she and her sister make him. They are what give him hope. Ashley promises to wait with her uncle by the train tracks, in remembrance of what was lost.
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[2015], Juvenile, Annick Press Call No: NL 920 URB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Explores the lives of Native American youths living in urban environments, discussing how they connect with other Natives and stay in touch with their own cultures in spite of city environments. Includes stories from the young men and women interviewed, as well as poems and artwork.
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c2002., Pre-adolescent, Dial Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in Canada, embarks on a dangerous rescue mission when his mother and two younger sisters are taken hostage during an attack by the British on their unprotected village in 1759.
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c2002., Juvenile, Dial Books Call No: NL HISTORICAL F BRU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourtee-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.
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c2010., Pre-adolescent, Tundra Books of North ern New York Tundra Books of North ern New York Call No: HISTORICAL F BUF Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Cass's father has remarried after her mother's death and she doesn't like her stepmother and stepsister. She discovers a Cree Indian named Beatrice's brooch and her visions lead her to Beatrice's diary, which inspires Cass to find the strength to face her own situation.
