Indigenous Teacher Resources

Winner of the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards, Best Picture Book.

Two Ojibway sisters trek across the frozen north country to see the SkySpirits, the Northern Lights

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 accompanying text written in Inuit language.

Winner of the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and finalist for the Governor General's Award: Children's Illustration.

The Man with the Otter Medicine tells of medicine power, the struggle for survival and an important part of the history and culture of the Dene people as it has been passed down through stories and legends for generations.

Other Education Library books from "The Land is Our Storybook" series: Come and Learn With Me, The Delta is My Home

This moving novel of self-discovery and awareness takes place during the Oka crisis in the summer of 1990.

After her critically acclaimed books of interviews with Afghan, Iraqi, Israeli and Palestinian children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention closer to home. For two years she traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen.

Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous Storywork is the result of this research and it demonstrates how stories have the power to educate and heal the heart, mind, body, and spirit. It builds on the seven principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy that form a framework for understanding the characteristics of stories, appreciating the process of storytelling, establishing a receptive learning context, and engaging in holistic meaning-making.

This book tells true story of an Aboriginal girl's fight for "safe and comfy" schools for all children, a fight that has inspired young people across Canada.

A Globe and Mail top 100 book of 2012.
Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys.

A First Nations book for young readers

Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle and turns Otter Lake completely upside down.

Will's Garden explores and describes the ceremonial traditions of Sto: loh boys who are becoming men.