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By Howard A Norman. 1997
Ten stories from Inuit oral tradition include portrayals of tundra wildlife - puffins, a wolverine, a seagull, a narwhal, and…
geese. The Biblical Noah appears in "Noah Hunts a Woolly Mammoth." In the title piece, a young girl's ability to help maintain the village food supply by dreaming about geese is challenged by a shaman. Grades 4-7. 1997.By Karen Bass. 2016
Jared’s plane has crashed in the Alberta wilderness, and Kyle is first on the scene. When Jared insists on hiking…
up the highest hill in search of cell phone reception, Kyle hesitates; his Cree grandmother has always forbidden him to go near it. There’s no stopping Jared, though, so Kyle reluctantly follows. After a night spent on the hilltop - with no cell service - the teens discover something odd: the plane has disappeared. Nothing in the forest surrounding them seems right. In fact, things seem very wrong. And worst of all, something - a creature that should only exist in legend - is hunting them. For senior high readers. 2016.By Oskiniko Larry Loyie, Constance Brissenden. 2005
When Tyler's cousin Robert arrives for the annual First Nations gathering, wearing a cowboy hat and a big smile, eager…
for his daily run, it's hard for Tyler to believe his favourite cousin is ill. At 21, Robert has HIV, but by speaking out he hopes he can encourage an awareness of AIDS among the First Nations community. Grades 4-7. 2005.By Joseph Bruchac, Gayle Ross. 1994
16 Native stories about girls. "The Beauty Way" is a recounting of an Apache rite of passage; "Stonecoat" describes the…
defeat of an evil and powerful medicine man by women who use the power of their "moontime"; and in the title story, a girl not only marries the moon but shares his job with him. Grades 4-7. Some descriptions of violence. 2006, c1994.By Joseph Bruchac. 1995
By Joan Clark. 1995
While on an expedition with his father to get lumber to take back to Greenland, Thrand is captured by the…
native Osweet, who have taken him to replace one of their own who was killed by a Greenlander. For junior and senior high readers. 1995.By Maureen Jennings. 2010
1873, Nova Scotia. A storm has wrecked a ship on the shores of a fishing village, and people work bravely…
to rescue the crew - but many die. When young Will Murdoch and the local priest examine the bodies, they discover gold and diamonds. They suspect that the shipwreck was not responsible for all the deaths. Some descriptions of violence. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. 2010.By Doris Andersen. 1974
Kim-Ta, son of a Salish chief, is captured by the Haidas. Afraid that he may become a sacrificial victim at…
one of their feasts, Kim-Ta plans his escape. Grades 4-7. 1974.By Anne Cameron, Ruth Holmes Whitehead. 1989
These stories provide a glimpse of the physical and spiritual world of the Micmac people. Grades 5-8 and older readers.…
Taped with: How Raven freed the moon by Anne Cameron. This Northwest Coast myth tells how Raven, the trickster, freed the moon from the old fisherwoman's cedar chest. Grades 3-6. Taped with: Orca's song by Anne Cameron. This Indian myth tells how Orca, the killer whale, got its black-and-white colouring and its beautiful song. Grades 3-6. c1989.By Jacqueline Guest. 2000
Leigh Aberdeen is determined to win the hockey championship with her new all-girl team, the Chinooks. Then her dad, who's…
also the coach, adds a know-it-all boy to the team which makes Leigh furious, and her best friend Tina, the goalie, starts mysteriously dropping practices just as the Chinooks show they can win. Leigh realizes that the team will need to overcome their problems on and off the ice before they can get it together and win. Grades 4-7. 2000.By Melanie Florence. 2016
Raised on a reserve in northern Ontario, seventeen-year-old Joe Littlechief tries to be like the other guys. But Joe knows…
he's different -- he's more interested in guys than in any of the girls he knows. One night Joe makes a drunken pass at his best friend Benjy and, by the next morning, everyone on the rez is talking about Joe. His mother, a devout Christian, is horrified, and the kids who are supposed to be his friends make it clear there's no place for him in their circle, or even on the rez. Joe thinks about killing himself, but instead runs away to the city. Alone and penniless on the streets of Toronto, Joe comes to identify with the Aboriginal idea of having two spirits, or combining both feminine and masculine identities in one person. He also begins to understand more about how his parents have been affected by their own experiences as children in residential schools -- something never discussed on the rez. And he realizes he has to come to terms with his two-spiritedness and find people who accept him for who he is. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.By Jennifer Dance. 2014
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s,…
both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. But with winter closing in, will Red Wolf and Crooked Ear survive? And if they do, what will they find? For junior high readers. 2014.By Isabelle Larouche. 2015
Dylan vient d'arriver à Montréal, où il entreprend sa première année dans une grande école secondaire. Il lui est difficilede…
s'adapter à tant de changements, d'autant plus qu'il vient d'un petit village iroquois, Kanehsatake. Le jeune Amérindien rencontre Thomas et Hugo. Ensemble, ils jouent aux échecs, font des balades dans les rues de la ville, et échangent surleurs origines mohawks, haïtiennes et québécoises. Ils seront même initiés à l'escalade ! Mais, un soir, les trois adolescents plongent vers leur destin. Ils vivent une aventure initiatique qui consolide leur amitié et change même le cours de l'histoire. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2015.By Michel Noël. 2014
" Moi, Pien, je suis un Métis dont l'histoire est vieille comme ce continent. J'ai trouvé, grâce à Wawaté, à…
Kokum, aux Arbres, et à bien d'autres à qui je suis redevable, ma place dans l'univers, dans le monde contemporain. Je porte en moi la mémoire de mes ancêtres, comme s'ils mavaient choisi pour les prolonger dans le monde d'aujourdhui et de demain. Je suis un passeur d'histoires. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire et plus.By Jocelyne Mallet-Parent. 2014
Les bernaches avec les oies blanches, ça finit toujours par porter malheur." Le jour où il se met à fréquenter…
lécole des Blancs, Simon Vicaire prend vite conscience de sa différence. Adolescent, il se voit interdire de fréquenter Isabelle Bouchard, une jeune Blanche qui lattire beaucoup au grand dam de Meaghan, son amie denfance, une Amérindienne comme lui. Simon se met en tête de découvrir ce qui a bien pu se passer du temps de son grand-père, le vieux Billy, célèbre guide de la pêche au saumon, pour que les familles Vicaire et Blanchard éprouvent une telle haine lune pour lautre. Mais son destin bascule quand le corps de Meaghan est découvert se balançant au bout dune corde. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2014.By Jean Lemieux. 2007
Pour la classe de FX Bellavance et de son amie Marianne, c'est aujourd'hui le grand jour: l'équipe qui fera le…
meilleur exposé oral sur un objet original accompagnera le professeur au Grand Cirque des Étoiles! Les deux enfants sont certains de remporter le prix avec leur présentation sur le phénomène des éclipses jusqu'à ce qu'Arnaud Savappa-Dubonnet, le nouvel élève de la classe, présente sa petite boîte carrée dans laquelle est soi-disant enfermé un pistou. François-Xavier serait-il jaloux de ce nouvel arrivant qui a fait le tour de la planète, qui s'exprime avec aisance et qui déborde d'imagination? Années 1-3. 2007.By Will Hobbs. 2013
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in far northern…
Canada, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine. Grades 5-8. 2013.By Connie Brummel Crook, Marie-Andrée Clermont. 2001
Ce récit inspiré des légendes indiennes raconte la découverte du sirop d'érable. Dans la nation des Missisaugas, un jeune garçon…
aperçoit un écureuil gratter l'écorce d'une branche d'érable et y boire. Il goute à la sève à son tour et, la trouvant sucrée, il décide d'entailler l'arbre pour en récolter davantage. Années 1-3. 2001.By Nicolas Dickner, Raymond Brousseau. 2006
Ce matin, la petite Norah n'a pas du tout envie de quitter la chaleur de ses draps pour débuter une…
autre journée faite de repas avalés en quatrième vitesse, de dictées et de tests de mathématiques. C'est donc avec un bonheur immense qu'elle accueille le premier tapis blanc tissé par la saison hivernale ainsi que la demande de sa mère, qui lui demande d'aller acheter du lait au magasin du coin. Or, la neige a fait disparaître tous ses repères habituels et, dès qu'elle met le pied dehors, rêve et réalité se confondent: le quartier montréalais très animé auquel elle est habituée laisse place à une énorme banquise où s'affairent des ours polaires, un Inuit moitié-homme moitié-morse, un chasseur de phoque, etc. Années 2-4. 2006.By Kathy Kacer, Jenny Kay Dupuis. 2016
Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, a young First Nations girl who was sent to a…
residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Express Honour Book Award. Winner of the 2018 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. Winner of the 2018 Red Cedar Information Book Award. 2016.