Amik Loves School

Amik Loves School
Author: Katherena Vermette
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1553798112

Amik loves going to school, but when he shares this with his grandfather, he finds out Moshoom attended residential school. At Moshoom’s school, students were forbidden from speaking their language. It sounds very different from Amik's school, so Amik has an idea… In this heartwarming story, an Anishinaabe child shows his grandfather how his school celebrates the culture that residential schools tried to erase. A pronunciation guide for the Anishnaabemowin words can be found at the back of the book. Rich in culture and grounded in traditional knowledge, Katherena Vermette’s The Seven Teachings Stories series features themes of love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth. Contemporary Indigenous children explore the Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe through stories of home and family that will look familiar to all young readers in these books for ages 3–5.

The Just Right Gift

The Just Right Gift
Author: Katherena Vermette
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1553798252

Migizi loves Gookom so much. He wants to let her know by giving her the perfect gift to cheer her up while she is in the hospital. The gift should be as sweet as her kisses and as warm as her smiles. He asks his family and friends for help, but none of his ideas are quite right. Can he find her the perfect gift? In this touching story, a young boy tries to find the perfect gift to show his grandmother how much he cares about her. A pronunciation guide for the Anishnaabemowin words can be found at the back of the book. Rich in culture and grounded in traditional knowledge, Katherena Vermette’s The Seven Teachings Stories series features themes of love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth. Contemporary Indigenous children explore the Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe through stories of home and family that will look familiar to all young readers in these books for ages 3–5.

The First Day

The First Day
Author: Katherena Vermette
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2019-01-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1553798228

Makwa has to go to a new school ... and he doesn't want to go. How will he face his first day? The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in these seven stories for children. Set in an urban landscape with Indigenous children as the central characters, these stories about home and family will look familiar to all young readers.

The Memory Coat

The Memory Coat
Author: Elvira Woodruff
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0590677179

In the early 1900s, two cousins leave their Russian shtetl with the rest of their family to come to America, hopeful that they will all pass the dreaded inspection at Ellis Island.

Teacher’s Guide for The Seven Teachings Stories

Teacher’s Guide for The Seven Teachings Stories
Author: Katya Adamov Ferguson
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2014-10-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1553795709

Designed to help teachers in early years classrooms use The Seven Teachings Stories series, by Katherena Vermette, this guide provides the framework and key ideas educators need to become participants in a culturally responsive classroom community and to deepen their understanding of the Seven Teachings. With these stories, educators can create a space to discuss diverse perspectives, experiences, and traditions with young readers, and to foster a deeper understanding of ourselves as human beings and of our relationships with others. This guide is presented in three sections and includes: Key information about the Seven Teachings, Anishinaabe vocabulary, and the characters in each story. Ideas to guide student learning. Approaches and suggestions that teachers can apply to any of the seven stories. Strategies and activities to deepen readers’ understanding of the abstract concepts addressed in the stories. An appendix of reproducible classroom materials.

Resurgence

Resurgence
Author: KC Adams
Publisher: Portage & Main Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2022-05-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1774920026

Resurgence is an inspiring collection of contemporary Indigenous poetry, art, and narratives that guides teachers in bridging existing K–12 curricula with Indigenous voices and pedagogies. In this first book in the Footbridge Series, we invite you to walk with us as we seek to: connect peoples and places link truth and reconciliation as ongoing processes symbolize the risk and urgency of this work for both Indigenous and settler educators engage tensions highlight the importance of balance, both of ideas and within ourselves Through critical engagement with the texts, experienced educators Christine M’Lot and Katya Adamov Ferguson support readers in connecting with Indigenous narratives and perspectives, bringing Indigenous works in their classrooms, and creating more equitable and sustainable teaching practices. In this resource, you will find diverse Indigenous voices, perspectives, and art forms from a variety of nations and locations valuable concepts and methods that can be applied to the classroom and beyond practical action steps and resources for educators, parents, librarians, and administrators Use this book as a springboard for your own learning journey or as a lively prompt for dialogue within your professional learning community.

Speaking Our Truth

Speaking Our Truth
Author: Monique Gray Smith
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 145981584X

Holding each other up with respect, dignity and kindness.

Earthdivers

Earthdivers
Author: Gerald Robert Vizenor
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1981
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 1452902895

These narratives compare earthdivers in myths who brought dirt up from the watery earth to form land, with present-day earthdivers, mixed bloods, who dive into urban areas connecting dreams to the earth