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Come Walk in My Moccasins Newsletter
October 2023
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In this Issue:
Books: One Eagle Soaring, Mnoomin maan'gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin, Rabbit and Otter - Waabooz Miinawaa Nagig, The Moon of the Turning Leaves Our Music: Strong Woman Song Our Words: Let's Learn Languages: Pumpkin Our Traditions: Manoomin: Food that Grows on Water Recipe: Vegan Wild Rice Soup |
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| Did you know...
technically, wild rice isn't even a rice, even though it's marketed as one? It's actually grass and it is gluten-free, therefore safe for diabetics and people who have celiac disease. Wild rice is full of nutritional and health benefits.Wild rice is a wonderfully balanced food source, providing a healthy mix of protein and fiber. Click this link to learn more and try recipes!
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| One Eagle Soaring
Infant & Toddler
One Eagle Soaring is an exquisite board book illustrated by storyteller and artist Roy Henry Vickers and written by Robert Budd. Each page has embossed images giving the book a tactile quality that resonates with the countable illustrations on the glossy pages. The book introduces babies and toddlers to West Coast, British Columbia. This is the second book in the bestselling board book series, First West Coast Books, and follows Hello Humpback! In, One Eagle Soaring, this first numbers book explores counting and numbers with the help of West Coast birds and animals contextualized by their natural habitats. Eagle, moose, orcas,bees, and others assist each other making this sturdy board book perfect for little readers. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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Mnoomin maan'gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin
Preschool & Kindergarten
Written in Anishinaabemowin and English, the story opens at harvest time. A child holds a mnoomin seed and imagines all the life that made a single seed possible-Mayfly, Pike, Muskrat, Eagle and Moose, all had a part to play in bringing the seed into being. What will happen if the seed sprouts? Underwater leaves will shelter young fish, shoots will protect ducklings, stalks will feed larvae, in turn providing food for bats...until finally mnoomin will be ready to harvest again.
We follow the child and family through a harvest day as they make offerings of tobacco, then gently knock ripe seeds into their canoe. On shore, they prepare the seeds, cook up a feast, and gratefully plant some seeds they'd set aside.
This beautifully written and illustrated story reveals the cultural and ecological importance of mnoomin. As the author's note explains, many Anishinaabeg agree that "wild rice" is an inaccurate term for this plant relation, since part of the harvest is sown every year to help sustain human and non-human beings. Includes a translator's note. (excerpt from Strongnations.com)
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Rabbit and Otter - Waabooz Miinawaa Nagig
Primary
Rabbit and Otter is a delightful story about a rabbit and otter who go harvesting wild rice. This is a story about not taking more than you need. In English and Anishinaabemowin line by line in each Language. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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| The Moon of the Turning Leaves
Adult
It's been over a decade since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy. Evan Whitesky led his community in remote northern Ontario off the rez and into the bush, where they've been living off the land, rekindling their Anishinaabe traditions in total isolation from the outside world. As new generations are born, and others come of age in the world after everything, Evan’s people are in some ways stronger than ever. But resources in and around their new settlement are beginning to dry up, and the elders warn that they cannot afford to stay indefinitely.
Evan and his fifteen-year-old daughter, Nangohns, are elected to lead a small scouting party on a months-long trip to their traditional home on the north shore of Lake Huron—to seek new beginnings, and discover what kind of life—and what dangers—still exist in the lands to the south.
Moon of the Turning Leaves is Waubgeshig Rice’s exhilarating return to the world first explored in the phenomenal breakout bestseller Moon of the Crusted Snow: a brooding story of survival, resilience, Indigenous identity, and rebirth. (excerpt from Strongnations.com)
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| Strong Woman Song
This video comes from Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA)'s virtual drum book. The drum book is a beautiful collection of songs and teachings. (3:46 minute video) |
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| Let's Learn Languages: Pumpkin
Our puppets share the word for "pumpkin" in Kanyen'keha (Mohawk) and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe). Practice saying it too! (.37 second video) |
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Manoomin: Food That Grows on the Water
"Fred Ackley Jr. is from the Sokaogon Chippewa Community of Mole Lake. He harvests and processes manoomin, or wild rice. Learn how his relationship with nature informs his approach physically and spiritually to the harvest.
This resource is part of The Ways, a collection of educational media resources from PBS Wisconsin Education for middle and high school classrooms. The collection explores connections between traditional ways and those of today and expands and challenges current understanding of Native identity and communities through language and culture stories from First Nations communities around the central Great Lakes." (4:23 minute video)
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Vegan Wild Rice Soup
This video by Niwasa Hamilton will take you through the simple steps to make this delicious, hearty soup. (5:50 minute video)
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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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Kewaywin Drum Circle, Kingston, ON
Wednesday, October 18
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| Apocalypse, Later: Matinee with Waubgeshig Rice, Kingston, ON Sunday, October 22 |
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| Halloween Story Walk, Sydenham, ON Monday, October 23 |
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| Bus to the Garden with Kahwá:tsire, Kingston, ON Tuesday, October 31 |
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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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