Below find the link and Passcode for the Indigenous Authors presentation.

​https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/82WKX-vAToQO2eEExlA426XjE5irxYxwgxsVrPV7CR_wl8l4N7YUxEwTwOJsZv8E.LBnTE4uCzjvVUBsP
Passcode: ?Z8r9O6e

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(Legend:  BTS: Based on True Story.  BB: Boardbooks   PB: Picture Book  N: Novel  NF: Non-Fiction  HF: Historic Fiction  FN: First Nation  #: Age Gr  #: Grade  YA: Young Adult  A: Adult *Available in SK public and school libraries only)

THEME: TRUTH FIRST

3 - A.          I Am Not a Number     Jenny Kay Dupuis/Kathy Kacer 
8 year old removed from family to live in a residential school becomes a number and loses her identity and has difficulty rejoining her family. What happens when the parents disobey the law and don’t send her back to residential school?

N YA - A     No time to Say Goodbye     Sylvia Olsen
Attempts to escape from Gulf Island Coast residential school
PB BTS     Orange Shirt Day          Phyllis Webstad
Excited wearing an orange shirt for the first day of school, the shirt is taken from her and she never sees it again.
PB BTS Phyllis’s Orange Shirt               “

*BTS Métis   From this Window   Wilfred Burton
Officials sometimes took Métis kids to make quotas or because they were there. A Metis girl taken from her home can see her home from the residential school window but cannot go there. 

N Gr 4-8 Inuit   Fatty Legs    Christy Jordan-Fenton/Margaret Pokiak-Fenton 
PB Gr2+ When I was Eight.              “
PB Gr2+ Not my Girl                        “

PB Gr2+ FN     Missing     Nimama Melanie Florence
Mother went missing …but is watching over her…
PB Gr2+ FN    Stolen Words.            “
You lose your language when you go to residential school. Helps Grandpa rediscover his language

PB Gr2+BTS    Road Allowance Kitten               Wilfred Burton
What happened when the Government decided they didn’t want theMétis living on road allowances on the prairies anymore and moved them north into the bush. Stories from lived experiences featuring a cat.
PB Gr2+BTS   Road Allowance Broken Promises.      “
PB Gr2+BTS Road Allowance ? …#3 coming soon.   “
Having tuberculosis.

THEME: RECONCILIATION

What can you do? 
Recognize the meaning of Indigenous, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and name people appropriately; ask about identity;
Acknowledge, participate in and learn on Truth and Reconciliation Day; go to an event, sit in that newness or discomfort; learn;
Read, read, read; recognize achievements, acknowledge and pay homage to the land; 
Wear an orange shirt and be an ally, talk about what the shirt means — talk about those who never made it home from residential schools; 
Celebrate with us! 

A NF Métis     The North-West is Our Mother   Jean Teillet (Great Uncle was Louis Riel)
(Fantastic explanation of how the Métis became a Nation)

A NF FN         Clearing the Plains      James Daschuk
Comprehensive historical piece that will make you gasp

A HF BTS        Indian Horse.            Richard Wagamese
Follows the life of a good hockey player in residential school made into a movie.

A.                      Five Little Indians     Michelle Good
Life after residential school

A NF                 Halfbreed                  Maria Campbell
First edition edited out police officer raping her, reprinted with the missing pages. Starting point.

A NF                Call Me Indian            Fred Sasakamoose
Achievement through racism in hockey

A NF                 Lebret: Looking Back and Beyond      Joan Pelletier
Autobiography

THEME: HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY 

Gr K-3 Auntie’s Rez Surprise Heather O’Watch (2023)
N YA+A Tilly and Crazy Eights Monique Gray Smith (hilarious)
PB HF BTS Ride Gabe Ride Wilfred Burton

Other Suggestions
BB Julie Flett
BB Richard van Camp
A True Reconciliation Jody Wilson-Raybould
A Permanent Astonishment Thomson Highway
N YA If This Buffalo Coat Could Talk Wilfred Burton Wilfred wrote the stories about the coat that had to be destroyed
Kookum Makes Scrummy Bannock for the Queen An idea for a story formed when the Queen came to Lumsden 2005
Best Gift Ever Wilfred Burton Gifted a fiddle by her Mooshum but learned lot play ater in life
Kookum’s Babushka ? (Donna Lee Dumont illustrator)