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Selected Books and Reflections
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Awâsis and the world-famous bannock
by Dallas Hunt (author) and Amanda Strong (illustrator)
After losing the bannock bread on the way to deliver it for her grandmother, Awa sis searches for the ingredients to make more with help from some other-than-human relatives. This whimsical story celebrates the revitalization of Cree dialects and traditional methods of storytelling.
The Creators: Dallas Hunt is a teacher, writer, and member of Wapisewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada. As a proponent of language revitalization, his debut book for children, Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock, includes words in Cree. Dallas lives in Winnipeg and enjoys reading great books to his nieces and nephews.
Amanda Strong is a Michif, Indigenous filmmaker, media artist, and stop motion director currently based out of the unceded Coast Salish territory also known as Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited work and screened films worldwide, including at the Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, and the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
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Blackflies
by Robert Munsch (author) and Jay Odjick (illustrator)
One day Helen wakes up and it's spring! The snow has melted and the sun is shining. But Helen knows that the blackflies will be coming out soon. So she does what any smart kid would do: she sends her little sister outdoors to check! When the blackflies and mosquitoes carry her away, Helen tells her dad, who rushes outside and is carried away himself. Now Helen needs to rescue BOTH of them, along with a wolf and a very clever bear.
The Creators: Robert Munsch is a Canadian bestselling author of more than fifty picture books for young readers. His heartwarming and hilarious stories are beloved by children, parents, teachers and booksellers alike. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Jay Odkick is a writer, artist and television producer from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg community in Québec, Canada. He is best known for his creation Kagagi, part of a growing number of Indigenous superheroes created by Indigenous writers and artists
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A Matter of Conscience
by James Bartleman
In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog Indian reserve. Their mission is to seize the twin babies of an Indigenous couple as part of an illegal scheme cooked up by the federal government to adopt out tens of thousands of Native children to white families. The baby girl, Brenda, is adopted and raised by a white family in Orillia. Meanwhile, that same summer, a baby boy named Greg is born to a white middle-class family. The destinies of Brenda and Greg intersect in this novel of passion confronting the murder and disappearance of Indigenous women and the Sixties Scoop.
The Creator: James Bartleman is the former lieutenant governor of Ontario and the bestselling author of the novels As Long as the River Flows and The Redemption of Oscar Wolfe. A member of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, he is also a retired ambassador and a member of the Order of Canada. He lives in Perth, Ontario.
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