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  • The Land of Os

    John Ramsay

    by David A. Robertson ...
    Illustrated by Wai Tien ...
    Series series Tales from Big Spirit
    A great read and teaching tool for National Indigenous History Month!When Richard's class from Big Spirit School takes a canoe trip, he and his classmates chance upon an elderly 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 there in 1875. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Peacemaker

    Thanadelthur

    by David A. Robertson ...
    Illustrated by Wai Tien ...
    Series series Tales from Big Spirit
    When Cole's teacher catches him drawing rather than listening in class, he gives Cole a special assignment: an oral presentation on an important Aboriginal figure. Cole will do almost anything to avoid speaking in public -- even feigning illness. But when he hear the story of the remarkable woman known as Thanadelthur—peacemaker between the Cree and the Dene and interpreter for the governor of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Ballad of Nancy April

    Shawnadithit

    by David A. Robertson ...
    Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson ...
    Series series Tales from Big Spirit
    A great read and teaching tool for National Indigenous History Month!When a mishap delays Jessie at the end of a school day, she takes a shortcut home. But the shortcut turns into an adventure, as Jessie is transported through time and space, to early 19th-century Newfoundland. There she meets Shawnadithit who, as the last surviving member of the Beothuk, has witnessed the end of a once-great ... Read more

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  • The Rebel

    Gabriel Dumont

    by David A. Robertson ...
    Illustrated by Andrew Lodwick ...
    Series series Tales from Big Spirit
    A great read and teaching tool for National Indigenous History Month!For Tyrese, history class is the lowest point of his school day. This is, until his friend Levi reveals a secret -- a secret that brings history alive, in the form of one Gabriel Dumont. Through Dumont, a great Metis leader of the Northwest Resistance, the boys experience a bison hunt, a skirmish with the Blackfoot, and encounter ... Read more

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  • The Poet

    Pauline Johnson

    by David A. Robertson ...
    Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson ...
    Series series Tales from Big Spirit
    A great read and teaching tool for National Indigenous History Month!Although Kathy loves poetry, she is far too shy to recite it in front of her class. But the story of Pauline Johnson, renowned as the "Mohawk Princess," inspires Kathy to overcome her stage fright. Pauline, from the Grand River Reserve in Ontario, crisscrossed the country, reciting her poems to far-flung communities, making her ... Read more

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  • The Chief

    Mistahimaskwa

    by David A. Robertson ...
    Illustrated by Scott B. Henderson ...
    Series series Tales from Big Spirit
    A great read and teaching tool for National Indigenous History Month!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 boy who would become the great ... Read more

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