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Come Walk in My Moccasins Newsletter November 2024 |
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In this Issue:
Books: Animals at Play in Mi'kma'ki, You Are The Land, This Land: The History of the Land We're On, The Knowing Our Music: Otsísto Yotsistóhkware (Twinkle Little Star) Our Words: Mohawk Hunting Words Our Stories: Indigenous Veterans Our Traditions: The Red River Jig
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| Did you know...
for some First Nations peoples, November is known as the Freezing Moon?
The eleventh moon of Creation is the Freezing Moon, a time when the Star nation is closet to us. As every creature being prepares for the coming fasting grounds, we are remined to prepare ourselves for our spiritual path by learning the sacred teachings and songs that will sustain us.
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Animals at Play in Mi'kma'ki
Infant and Toddler
In this fun board book for young kids, turtles skateboard, salmon snorkel, bears take photos and otters frolic with floaties!
Mi’kmaw artist Mel Beaulieu’s lively modern take on traditional beadwork brings these animals to life. Mi’kma’ki’s most iconic animals are portrayed in this colourful and whimsical book.
Mi’kmaw names (and pronunciation guides) make this a great introduction to contemporary Mi’kma’ki for very young children. (excerpt from Strongnations.com)
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| You Are The Land
Preschool and Kindergarten
Inspired by the Physical quadrant of the Anishinaabe Medicine Wheel, You Are the Land reminds young readers that they are a part of the world around them. With fun, rhyming text, each page compares our physical bodies to plants, animals, and the four elements, sharing an important message: You are the Land. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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This Land : The History of the Land We're On
Primary
Ashley Fairbanks is an Anishinaabe artist, writer, organizer, and digital strategist. Bridget George is an Anishinaabe author-illustrator and mom. She was raised on the shores of Lake Huron in the traditional territory of her people in Kettle and Stony Point First Nation. It's a Mitig! was her debut picture book.
This land is your land now, but who did it belong to before? This engaging primer about native lands invites kids to trace history and explore their communities.
Before my family lived in this house, a different family did, and before them, another family, and another before them. And before that, the family that lived here lived not in a house, but a wigwam. Who lived where you are before you got there?
This Land teaches readers that American land, from our backyards to our schools to Disney World, are the traditional homelands of many Indigenous nations. This Land will spark curiosity and encourage readers to explore the history of the places they live and the people who have lived there throughout time and today. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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| The Knowing
Adult
For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being sent to residential schools, “Indian hospitals” and asylums through a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada’s greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that until recently lay hidden by shame and abandonment.
The Knowing is the unfolding of Canadian history unlike anything we have ever read before. Award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can—through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide.
Deeply personal and meticulously researched, The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today. (excerpt from Strongnations.com)
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Otsísto Yotsistóhkware
Learn and sing along to Twinkle Little Star in Kanyen'keha, the Mohawk language. Song by Kristi Talbot. Video by Kahwa:tsire Indigenous-Led Child & Family Programs. (.31 second video) |
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| Mohawk Hunting Words
Expand your vocabulary with these Mohawk words related to hunting in this video by KORCulturalCenter. (1:46 minute video)
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| Indigenous Veterans
Historian Cole Nolan from Garden River First Nation in northern Ontario says Indigenous soldiers served a "country that didn’t want them to exist" as they still faced prejudice and racism returning from overseas. (2:53 minute video)
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The Red River Jig
The Red River Jig is a proper name attributed to both the Canadian Métis and the First Nations, in reference to a traditional dance and accompanying fiddle tune. The dance’s performers and fiddlers currently and historically includes individuals identifying as First Nations, French Canadian, or Scottish Canadians, as well as others involved in the expansive 19th century fur trade.
(4:52 minute video) |
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Indigenous Language Resources |
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| Mohawk Language Learning Resource This open education resource (OER) may be used a supplementary resource to learning the Mohawk language at the beginner level. In the first part of the OER, the basic morphology, of the language is introduced through pronouns, pronoun prefixes, particles, and verb roots. The second part introduces vocabulary builders. Finally, in the third part, basic conversational language is explored.
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Language Resources created with the intention of learning and developing your knowledge of the Michif language. The resources featured are trilingual including the following languages; Michif, French, and English.
Anishnaabemowin - Our Language Our Culture
Ojibwa language booklet
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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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Free Anishinaabemowin printable resources, lesson plans, and videos to help learn the language |
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| NEW! Nurturing Childhoods Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing Explore teachings, strategies, and resources that guide the inclusion of Indigenous ways of knowing in early learning environments. This is a FREE online course provided by the University of British Columbia. |
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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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| 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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Sources for Indigenous books:
Indigenous Book Lending:
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| Inuit Day Thursday, November 7 |
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| Indigenous Veterans Day Friday, November 8 |
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| Indigenous Veterans Day Ceremony, Toronto, ON Friday, November 8 |
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| Leather Mitt Making, Deseronto, ON Friday, November 15 (workshop done over four weeks) |
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Weesageechak Begins To Dance 37, Toronto, ON
Thursday, November 21 - Friday, December 1 |
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| | Louis Riel Day Saturday, November 16 |
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