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Maisons de neige, de pierres et d'os:
habitations amérindiennes: le Grand Nord
Bonnie Shemie
Translation: Michèle Boileau
Illustrations: Bonnie Shemie
Montreal: Livres Toundra, 1992
24 p. ISBN 0887762956
Ages 8-11
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Published in collaboration with Grandir (France).
At last, a book that gives a comprehensive look at the way the North American Inuit built their shelters in one of the most unforgiving climates of the world. The book itself is like an igloo, simply ingenious in its design yet superbly beautiful in its function as it depicts the traditional homes built by the Inuit people.
The drawings show the use of a variety of materials and shapes according to the season and the geography: the quarmang (stone, whalebone, skins, brush and snow); sod houses (driftwood); and various designs of skin tents.
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Maisons de peaux et de terre:
habitations amérindiennes: plaines de l'Ouest
Bonnie Shemie
Translation: Suzanne Lévesque
Illustrations: Bonnie Shemie
Montreal: Livres Toundra, 1991
24 p. ISBN 0887762719
Ages 8-11
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Published in collaboration with Grandir (France).
This richly illustrated work describes the dwellings of the Prairies Indians. The author explains how the Indians improved materials and adapted them to their needs and their environment. This is the third book in a series on Native dwellings.
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La Mer et le cèdre:
ainsi vivaient les Indiens de la côte du Nord-Ouest
Lois McConkey
Translation: Danielle Thaler
Illustrations: Douglas Tait
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre,
1983
31 p. ISBN 0888943733
Ages 9-11
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This good documentary book will encourage young people to read further on the seven tribes of Northwest Coast Indians.
Their way of life centred on the Pacific Ocean and one type of tree, the cedar. With it, the Indians could make almost everything they needed: baskets, mats, ropes, spoons, dishes, totem poles, their homes and even their clothing.
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Petit Ruisseau et le don des animaux:
une légende sénéca
Carrie J. Taylor
Translation: Suzanne Lévesque
Illustrations: Carrie J. Taylor
Montreal: Livres Toundra, 1992
24 p. ISBN 0887762913
Ages 7-11
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Petit Ruisseau often finds himself alone in the forest in the company of animals. A sudden illness strikes the Seneca village. Petit Ruisseau's grandfather, Hibou de Pierre, asks Petit Ruisseau to get help from the forest animals to heal his people. Because Petit Ruisseau has always respected the animals, they share their secrets with him and life in the village is returned to normal.
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Qui es-tu?/Kinauvit?
Michel Noël
Lasalle, Quebec: Hurtubise HMH, 1991
110 p. ISBN 2890459241
Ages 11-14
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This play describes the traditional and "modern" Inuit ways of life, from a life based on hunting to a sedentary existence. The play illustrates the difficult transition that the Inuit of northern Quebec have been making since the 1950s - their struggle to survive and to retain control of their present and their future.
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Sooshewan: jeune Béothuk
Donald Gale
Translation: Anne Thareau and Scott Jamieson
Illustrations: Shawn Stefflera
St. John's, T.-N.: Breakwater, 1990
30 p. ISBN 092091182X
Ages 6-11
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Sooshewan, a Beothuk girl, lives at the edge of a lake with her extended family. Heeding a warning from her dying grandmother that Sooshewan's father, who has gone out hunting, needs help, Sooshewan sets out heading north.
Hungry and cold, Sooshewan asks her grandmother's spirit to help her find her father. Finding him in a rough bough shelter, his foot twisted and ankle broken, she splints his ankle and takes care of him until help arrives. Her father, grateful to her for saving his life, realizes his little girl has grown up and bestows on her the name woas-sut which means woman.
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Les Stadacone
Michel Noël
Illustrations: Joanne Ouellet
Sainte-Foy, Quebec:
Québec Science, 1985-1986
9 v. 24 p. each. ISBN 2920073370;
2920073389; 2920073397;
2920073427; 2920073435;
2920073443; 2920073451;
292007346X; 2920073478
Ages 6-9
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A nine-volume series describing Amerindian culture. The titles are Les Ancêtres, L'Éloquence, L'Héritage, Le Visiteur, La Coutume, L'Origine, La Peur noire, La Corvée and Le Grognon. All the stories and narratives are illustrated and accompanied by a glossary.
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Les Vainqueurs
Mary-Ellen Lang Collura
Translation: Marie-Andrée Clermont
Montreal: Fides, 1987
213 p. ISBN 2762113628
Ages 12-16
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After enduring eleven foster homes in eight years, Jordy Threebears now lives with his grandfather, Joe Specklehawk, on a reserve in Alberta. Jordy feels abandoned and lonely and finds it hard to readjust to life on a reserve.
His self-esteem and confidence begin to grow as he learns to train a racing pony, given to him by his grandfather, and as he develops new friendships.
Social, racial and personal issues are all the focus of this story of a contemporary, fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian boy.
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