"For more than 100 years, Canada's First Nations, Inuits, and Metis people endured an educational system designed to essentially remove all evidence of their native identities. Children were mistreated and stripped of their identities as they were educated in the ways of a nation that wanted no trace of the Indian. This insightful resource provides a history of Canada and outlines the development of attitudes that resulted in the residential education system, as well as a glimpse into the experiences of children who made it through. Readers will also learn about efforts to help a nation continue to heal"--Amazon.com.
Emily Forsythe is a young British woman on her way to an arranged marriage in Portland, Oregon, in 1867 when a carriage accident in Montana leaves her alone and at the mercy of the man who finds her; Hope Cooper is a modern British girl on a camping trip with her mother in the mountains of Montana--yet their stories come together on Crow Mountain.
Since coming to Enchantment, New Mexico Daire Santos life has changed, yet while she's come to embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, she struggles with the responsibility of navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead.
A fictionalized account of the life of Pocahontas, the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.
Discusses the history, construction, cultural associations, and functions of longhouses. Includes a glossary, a list of additional resources, and a list of critical thinking questions using the Common Core.
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the "Island of the Blue Dolphins.".
North American Indian folklore explains certain natural occurrences, such as why winter lasts for five moons. Each moon story comes from a different tribe.
