Stand Like a Cedar

By Nicola I. Campbell
Illustrated by Carrielynn Victor
Categories: Children's Fiction, Indigenous, General, Environment, Camping & Outdoor Activities
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Spirituality and Ceremony, Worldviews, Teachings, and Protocols, Contemporary Setting, Diverse and Inclusive Representation, Identity, Land-Based or Place-Based Learning, Social Emotional Learning, Respect, STEM, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability, Seasonal Cycles
Cultures & Peoples: Salish, Nle?kepmx, Stó, Syílx
Indigenous Languages: Salish, Halq’emeylem, Nle?kepmxcín, Words or Phrases

When you go for a walk in nature, who do you see? What do you hear?

Award-winning storyteller Nicola I. Campbell shows what it means to “stand like a cedar” on this beautiful journey of discovery through ...

Siha Tooskin Knows the Best Medicine

By Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
Illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch
Categories: Children's Fiction, Indigenous, Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries, Boys & Men
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Smudging, Spirituality and Ceremony, Traditional Medicine, Contemporary Setting, Diverse and Inclusive Representation, Identity, Land-Based or Place-Based Learning, Social Emotional Learning, Respect, STEM, Plants
Cultures & Peoples: Nakota
Indigenous Languages: Nakota, Words or Phrases
Series: Siha Tooskin Knows

When Siha Tooskin—Paul Wahasaypa—finds himself not feeling at all well he learns that there are answers for him from the healing practices of his own people and from Western medicine. Pay a hospital ...

Siha Tooskin Knows the Nature of Life

By Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
Illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch
Categories: Children's Fiction, Indigenous, Environment, Values & Virtues, New Baby
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Spirituality and Ceremony, Worldviews, Teachings, and Protocols, Contemporary Setting, Diverse and Inclusive Representation, Identity, Social Emotional Learning, Character Education, Generosity, Kindness, Respect, Sharing, Social Justice, Impacts of Colonization and Colonialism, STEM, Plants, Rocks and Minerals
Cultures & Peoples: Nakota
Indigenous Languages: Nakota, Words or Phrases
Series: Siha Tooskin Knows

Paul Wahasaypa knows that Ena Makoochay (Mother Earth) gives us many things. On this compelling nature journey with Ena (his mom), we learn how strength, generosity, kindness, and humility are all shown ...

Siha Tooskin Knows the Strength of His Hair

By Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
Illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch
Categories: Children's Fiction, Indigenous, Values & Virtues, Diversity & Multicultural
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Spirituality and Ceremony, Contemporary Setting, Diverse and Inclusive Representation, Identity, Social Emotional Learning, Character Education, Kindness, Respect
Cultures & Peoples: Nakota
Indigenous Languages: Nakota, Words or Phrases
Series: Siha Tooskin Knows

Where can you find strength when someone disrespects you? And what does having strength really mean?

Paul Wahasaypa—Siha Tooskin—has learned from Ena (his mom) and Ade (his dad) to maintain a strong ...

This Place
150 Years Retold

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Jen Storm, Richard Van Camp, Katherena Vermette, Chelsea Vowel
Illustrated by Tara Audibert, Kyle Charles, GMB Chomichuk, Natasha Donovan, Scott B. Henderson, Andrew Lodwick, Scott A. Ford, Donovan Yaciuk, Ryan Howe, and Jen Storm
Foreword by Alicia Elliott
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Historical, Canada, Prejudice & Racism
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Potlatch, Spirituality and Ceremony, Storytelling and Oral Culture, Traditional Art, Traditional Foods, Traditional Medicine, Worldviews, Teachings, and Protocols, Authentic Indigenous History, Contemporary Setting, Diverse and Inclusive Representation, Depression and Suicide, Indigenous Veterans, Social Emotional Learning, Courage, Death, Grief, and Bereavement, Emotions and Feelings, Friendship, Kindness, Mental Health and Well-Being, Respect, Responsibility, Self-Esteem and Self-Reliance, Social Justice, Citizenship and Social Responsibility, Discrimination, Family Separation, Foster Care and the Child Welfare System, Genocide and Cultural Extinction, Impacts of Colonization and Colonialism, Indian Act, Prejudice and Racism, Residential Schools, STEM, Ecosystems, Strong Female Characters
Cultures & Peoples: Anishinaabeg, Cree, Inuit, Kanien’kehá, Kwakwaka’wakw, Ligwilda'xw (Southern Kwagul), Métis, Mi’kmaq (Mi’gmaq)
Indigenous Languages: Anishinaabemowin, Cree, Plains Cree (nêhiyawêwin), Dene, Inuktitut, Kanien'kéha (Mohawk), Kwak’wala, Pacifique Mi’gmaq (Mi'kmaw), Words or Phrases

Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through ...

Will I See?

By David A. Robertson
Illustrated by GMB Chomichuk
As told by iskwe & Erin Leslie
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Violence, Girls & Women, Aboriginal & Indigenous, General
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Spirituality and Ceremony, Authentic Indigenous History, Contemporary Setting, Social Emotional Learning, Courage, Death, Grief, and Bereavement, Empathy, Respect, Responsibility, Seven Sacred Teachings, Social Justice, Discrimination, MMIWG2S, Prejudice and Racism, Strong Female Characters
Cultures & Peoples: Cree
Indigenous Languages: Cree, Words or Phrases

May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger ...

April Raintree
Adapted, High School Edition

By Beatrice Mosionier
Foreword by Murray Sinclair
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Coming of Age, Siblings, Prejudice & Racism
Big Ideas: Authentic Indigenous History, Contemporary Setting, Diverse and Inclusive Representation, Depression and Suicide, Identity, Social Emotional Learning, Emotions and Feelings, Mental Health and Well-Being, Respect, Self-Esteem and Self-Reliance, Social Justice, Discrimination, Family Separation, Foster Care and the Child Welfare System, Poverty, Prejudice and Racism, Strong Female Characters
Cultures & Peoples: Métis

Memories. Some memories are elusive, fleeting, like a butterfly that touches down and is free until it is caught. Others are haunting. You'd rather forget them, but they won't be forgotten. And some are ...

What is Truth, Betsy?
A Story of Truth

By Katherena Vermette
Illustrated by Irene Kuziw
Categories: Children's Fiction, Values & Virtues, Indigenous, Girls & Women
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Medicine Wheel or Sacred Hoop, Spirituality and Ceremony, Sweat Lodge, Contemporary Setting, Diverse and Inclusive Representation, Identity, Social Emotional Learning, Character Education, Honesty, Respect, Seven Sacred Teachings
Cultures & Peoples: Anishinaabeg
Indigenous Languages: Anishinaabemowin, Words or Phrases
Series: The Seven Teachings Stories

Miskwaadesi is learning so much in school. She is learning about the world she lives in and what it means to be a part of it. However, when her class learns about the teaching Truth, Miskwaadesi doesn’t ...

Kode's Quest(ion)
A Story of Respect

By Katherena Vermette
Illustrated by Irene Kuziw
Categories: Children's Fiction, Values & Virtues, Indigenous, Manners & Etiquette, Environment
Big Ideas: Contemporary Setting, Diverse and Inclusive Representation, Identity, Social Emotional Learning, Character Education, Respect, Seven Sacred Teachings
Cultures & Peoples: Anishinaabeg
Indigenous Languages: Anishinaabemowin, Words or Phrases
Series: The Seven Teachings Stories

Kode’s class is learning about the Seven Teachings, but she’s still confused about Respect. Kode asks the wisest people she knows for help—her parents, her older siblings, and her grandparents. ...

7 Generations
A Plains Cree Saga
Compiled Edition

By David A. Robertson
Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Aboriginal & Indigenous, Historical, Mental Illness, Prejudice & Racism
Big Ideas: Aspects of Indigenous Cultures, Dream Catcher, Spirituality and Ceremony, Sweat Lodge, Traditional Foods, Authentic Indigenous History, Contemporary Setting, Diverse and Inclusive Representation, Depression and Suicide, Social Emotional Learning, Courage, Kindness, Mental Health and Well-Being, Respect, Responsibility, Self-Esteem and Self-Reliance, Social Justice, Family Separation, Impacts of Colonization and Colonialism, Genocide and Cultural Extinction, Enslaved People(s) and Human Exploitation, Poverty, Prejudice and Racism, Residential Schools, Strong Female Characters
Cultures & Peoples: Cree, Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot)
Indigenous Languages: Cree, Words or Phrases
Series: 7 Generations

Illustrated in vivid colour, 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga is an epic story that follows one Indigenous family over three centuries and seven generations. This compiled edition was originally published ...