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Come Walk in My Moccasins Newsletter
July 2023
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In this Issue:
Books: Dipnetting with Dad, Trudy's Healing Stone, Grandma's Tipi: A Present-Day Lakota Story, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe Our Music: The Gathering Song Our Words: Language Learning: Berries Our Stories: The Baptiste Lake Legend Our Traditions: Tracing the Origins of the Jingle Dress Recipe: Dandelion Shortbread Cookies |
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Dipnetting with Dad
BUMP, BUMP - SLAP, river sockeye salmon are pulled onto shore! Set in the beautiful landscape of the Cariboo Chilcotin region, DIPNETTING WITH DAD is a delightful and colourful story of a father teaching his son the Secwepemc method of fishing known as dipnetting. Together they visit the sweat lodge, mend the nets, select the best fishing spot and catch and pack their fish through rugged bush back to the family home for traditional preparation. In his first book, Williams Lake IndianBand member Willie Sellars captures family values, the importance of storytelling, community living and coming of age in one of BC's oldest cultures. Debut artist Kevin Easthope's contemporary and dynamic illustrations bring the characters to life as they jump off the page and pull you into their world. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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Trudy's Healing Stone
Everyone gets sad, angry, frustrated and disappointed. Difficult emotions are a natural part of life. In this book, Trudy's Healing Stone, Trudy Spiller shares a special teaching about a practice that anyone can use to help them process their feelings with the help of Mother Earth. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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Grandma's Tipi : A Present-Day Lakota Story
A young girl spends the summer at her grandmother’s home on the Standing Rock Reservation in this heartwarming family story.
Now that Clara is almost in third grade, she’s finally old enough to spend her first summer away from home visiting her grandma, Unci, and her cousin at their home in Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle Louie brings an extra-special surprise in his pickup truck: the tipi that’s been passed down through their family for generations. The girls learn how to stack the poles and wrap the canvas covering around them, how to paint spirit pictures on its walls, and how the circle of the tipi tells its own story, reminding us to how to live in the great Circle of Life. Over long days spent playing outside, doing beadwork together, telling stories, singing songs, and sleeping under the stars, the tipi brings the family closer together. As summer draws to an end, goodbye comes all too soon, but Clara will always cling to the memories of summer days and starry nights . . . and Grandma’s tipi. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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Path Lit by Lightning : The Life of Jim Thorpe
Adult
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw’s New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind.
But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe’s life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, he encountered duplicitous authorities who turned away from him when their reputations were at risk. At Carlisle, he dealt with the racist assimilationist philosophy “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” His gold medals were unfairly rescinded because he had played minor league baseball. His later life was troubled by alcohol, broken marriages, and financial distress. He roamed from state to state and took bit parts in Hollywood, but even the film of his own life failed to improve his fortunes. But for all his travails, Thorpe did not succumb. The man survived, complications and all, and so did the myth. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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| Gathering Song
Judi Montgomery, Coleen Mizen, and Thelma Peterson share the Gathering Song with us. (2:48 minute video)
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| Language Learning: Berries
Practice learning berry names in Mohawk & Ojibwe with our puppets! (1:24 minute video) |
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| The Baptiste Lake Legend
Noreen Tinney shares the legend of Baptiste Lake as told by Baptiste ancestors to Katherine Cannon. Video by North Hastings Children's Services. (2:22 minute video) |
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'A healing tradition': Tracing the origins of the Native American jingle dress
Brenda Child, a University of Minnesota professor, who was born on the Red Lake reservation and is a former trustee at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian shares knowledge on the origins of the jingle dress. (2:43 minute video)
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| Dandelion Shortbread Cookies
Diane shares a tried and tasted, kid-approved recipe for dandelion shortbread cookies. So good! |
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Indigenous Language Resources |
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Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na provides Mohawk language and culture programming at the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory (the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte). They run several programs, including Totáhne (At Grandma's House) for preschool children, Kawenna'ón:we Primary Immersion (K-4) and Shatiwennakará:tats, a year long program for Adults. |
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| Kingston Indigenous Language Nest invites you to engage in language revitalization with Dibajimowin: Urban Indigenous Languages Revitalization Project. The centerpiece of this website is a collection of thirty digital stories about culture and language made by community members. Each personal story shares insights into the barriers to language learning and cultural connection as well as the many ways we are resilient and relentless. For each story, we pulled out key themes to create new language learning resources such as vocabulary lessons, creative activities and cultural teachings. We have sorted the stories in different ways: by digital story, by language and by cultural teachings. Explore and Enjoy! |
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Free Anishinaabemowin printable resources, lesson plans, and videos to help learn the language |
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| Toronto Zoo- Turtle Island Conservation Toronto Zoo's Turtle Island Conservation programme (TIC) respectfully shares the hopes and goals of First Nation partners in our committment to the preservation of biodiversity. TIC partners with First Nation communities to preserve community knowledge and significant natural and cultural landscapes.
Resources available in Ojibwe and Mohawk. |
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Aanii.org Resource website for Anishinaabe culture, history and language |
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| Beauty in Movement: An Indigenous Guide to Physical Activity Pamphlet about the importance of physical activity and ideas to get children moving
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| Gathering Communities Making Connections A list of resources and services for people of Indigenous
Ancestry, and for those who work with them |
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Sources for Indigenous books:
Indigenous Book Lending:
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| Raspberry Moon Ceremony, Kingston, ON Tuesday, July 4 |
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| In the Garden with Kahwa:tsire, Kingston, ON Tuesday, July 11 |
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| Building Bridges Gallery Launch: an Evening of Indigenous Teachings, Picton, ON
Saturday, July 15 |
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Help us become more inclusive of the many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples among our readership. Share an Indigenous recipe, song, or traditional art through Come Walk in My Moccasins. Contact aflccanada@gmail.com if you are interested in becoming a guest contributor.
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