Educational Resources
The Keepers of the Water Educational Resources page is a tool for children, students and adults highlighting Indigenous knowledge and resources.
The page can be filtered by resource type; Apps, Books, Dictionaries, Podcasts, Reports or Videos, and by subject; Culture, Education, Environment, History, Language, and Music.
Additionally, there are printable colouring pages highlighting the importance of protecting water.
If your community or group has a link that you would like to share, please send us an email at ed@keepersofthewater.ca.
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Colouring Pages
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Online Cree Dictionary
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Online Kids Cree Dictionary
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Cree syllabics
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Cree Culture, Language and Traditions
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Cree Language And Syllabics
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East Cree Language Resources
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The Canadian Encyclopedia - Siksikáí’powahsin
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Omniglot - Blackfoot Language Background
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Glenbow Museum - Blackfoot Language Background
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Glenbow Museum - Blackfoot Culture
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Tailings Videos
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Mountain Cree Camp Interviews 2022
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Water Is Life Legal Summit 2022 Videos
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Indigenous Language Lesson: Siksika Nation
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Indigenous Language Lesson: Tsuut'ina Nation
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Nosisim - Carl Quinn
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Tapwe Oma
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Kakike
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Lonesome for You
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History of the Cree Language Part 1
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History of the Cree Language Part 2
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Dr. Kevin Lewis Cree Language #1
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Dr Kevin Lewis Cree Language #2
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Dr Kevin Lewis Cree Language #3
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Dr. Kevin Lewis Cree Language #4
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Wahkohtowin: Cree Natural Law
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TsuuTina Language - TsuuTina Nation page
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TsuuTina Language - TsuuTina Gunaha Institute
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Naapi's Garden and Katoyiss Seed Bank - KEPA
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Calgary Public Library Indigenous Services
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Edmonton Public Library Indigenous Services
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Think Indigenous
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Rupertsland Centre for Teaching & Learning
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Virtual Museum of Metis History And Culture
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Alberta Water Portal Society
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Alberta Water - Water Sources
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Water First - Indigenous Schools Education Resources
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University of Toronto: Aboriginal Worldviews and Education Online Course
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University of Alberta: Indigenous Canada Online Course
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National Film Board
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Alberta eBooks: Prairie Indigenous Collection
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Are We Seeking Pimatisiwin or Creating Pomewin? Implications for Water Policy
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Elements of Indigenous Style, A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples By Gregory Younging
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Truth and Reconciliation Through Education, Stories of Decolonizing Practices by Yvonne Poitras & Sulyn Bodnaresko
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True North Aid
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Nipiy Tu Research & Knowledge Centre
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Indigenous Climate Action (ICA)
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Indigenous Environmental Network
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Indigenous Climate Hub
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Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
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Water Teaching with Edna Manitowabi Wabano Centre
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The Medicines Are Our Family with Edna Manitowabi
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Elder Edna Manitowabi - The Creation Story
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Elder Martina Osawamick - Reflections From Ceremony
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Grandmother Moon with Jan Longboat
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The Story of Maple Syrup: Ziizbaaktoke Dabik-Giizis (Sugar Making Moon)
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Nanabush & Zhiiwaagamizigan
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Personhood for the Deh-cho (Mackenzie) River Report
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All My Relations - Hosted by: Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene
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Telling Our Twisted Histories
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Missing and Murdered - Hosted by: Connie Walker
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Métis in Space - Hosted by: Chelsea Vowel and Molly Swain
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New Fire with Lisa Charleyboy - Hosted by: Lisa Charleyboy
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Secret Life of Canada - Hosted by: Falen Johnson and Leah Simone Bowen
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The Henceforward - Hosted by: Eve Tuck
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This Land - Hosted by: Rebecca Nagle
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Unreserved - Hosted by: Rosanna Deerchild
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2 Crees in a Pod
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Back To Batoche
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Environmental Defence
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National Pollutant Release Inventory
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Indigenous Centre For Cumulative Effects
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Northwest Territories Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program
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Blue Quills University
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Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park
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Galt Museum & Archives
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Maskwacis Cultural College
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Red Crow Community College
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FNTI - Indigenous Sustainable Food Systems Bachelor's Degree
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First Nations Technical Institute
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Kâniyâsihk Cultural Camps
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Piikani - App
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Tsuut'ina - App
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Denesųłįné - App
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ATC Dene - App
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Maskwacis Cree - App
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Michif Lessons - App
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Stoney Language Dictionary - App
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Stoney Nakoda Vocab Builder - App
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KTCEA Elders Speak - App
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Enâtawâstemikweyahk (Cree Meditation Album)
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Calling All Dancers - Round Dance Songs Recorded Live, Vol. 6 - Northern Cree
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Ôskimacîtahowin: A New Beginning - Northern Cree
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Loyalty to the Drum - Northern Cree
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Dancerz Groove (Cree Round Dance Songs) - Northern Cree
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True North Strong and Cree: Pow-Wow Songs Recorded Live at Enoch - Northern Cree
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When It's Cold (Cree Round Dance Songs) - Northern Cree
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It's a Cree Thing (Cree Round Dance Songs)
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Hail to the Chiefs - Blackfoot Confederacy
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Elders' Vision - Blackfoot Confederacy
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Confederacy Style - Blackfoot Confederacy
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Wally and Deanna's Groundwater Adventure
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Acimowin Storytelling with Jeff Wastesicoot - Understanding Maskihkiy
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Keepers of the Water interview with Chief Tommy Kakfwi of K'ahsho Got'ine
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International Kwewag (Women's) Day 2023
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Help Keepers of the Water Sustain our Growing Water Protecting Work
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Happy Live-Givers/Birthing Persons (Mother’s) Day!
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Decolonizing Our Diets Live Broadcast from May 16, 2023
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Community Water Quality Monitoring Interactive Map Announcement
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Keepers Of The Water Annual Reports
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Community Water Quality Monitoring Interactive Map
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One trillion litres of toxic waste and growing: Alberta’s tailings pond
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Alberta Tailings Ponds II, Factual Record regarding Submission SEM-17-001
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Athabasca Watershed Monitoring Program First-Year in Summary Report 2022
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Blackfoot Ways of Knowing - Betty Bastien
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The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories - Hugh A. Dempsey
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Firewater. The Impact of the Whisky Trade on the Blackfoot Nation - Hugh A Dempsey
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The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories - Hugh A Dempsey
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The Blackfeet Raiders of the Northwestern Plains - John C Ewers
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The Old North Trail: Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians - Walter McClintock
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The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7 - Treaty 7 Tribal Council, Walter Hildebrandt, Sarah Carter and Dorothy First Rider
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True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change - Jody Wilson-Raybould
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Dancing with a Ghost: Exploring Aboriginal Reality - Rupert Ross
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Returning to the Teachings - Rupert Ross
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Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths - Rupert Ross
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Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place - Nathalie Kermoal
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Ohpikinawasowin Growing a Child, Implementing Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Indigenous Families - Leona Makokis
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Life Stages and Native Women - Kim Anderson
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Decolonizing Trauma Work, Indigenous Stories and Strategies - Renee Linklater
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Embers - Richard Wagamese
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One Native Life - Richard Wagamese
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One Story, One Song - Richard Wagamese
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What Comes From Spirit - Richard Wagamese
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Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary/alperta ohci kehtehayak nehiyaw otwestamâkewasinahikan - Nancy LeClaire and George Cardinal
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Our Story Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past - Various Indigenous Authors
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Just Powers - University Of Alberta
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These Mountains are Our Sacred Places: The Story of the Stoney People - Chief John Snow
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Words of Peace in Native Land: Mohawk Culture, Values and Tradition - Guylaine Cliche
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In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience - Helen Knott
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Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools - Theodore Niizhotay Fontaine
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Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity - Darrel J. McLeod
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All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward - Tanya Talaga
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Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City - Tanya Talaga
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Curved Against The Hull Of A Peterhead - Taqralik Partridge
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Life Among The Qallunaat - Mini Aodla Freeman
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The Right to be Cold - Sheila Watt-Cloutier
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Those Who Run in the Sky (Those Who Run, 1) - Aviaq Johnston
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Those Who Dwell Below (Those Who Run, 2) - Aviaq Johnston
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Edible and Medicinal Arctic Plants: An Inuit Elder's Perspective - Aalasi Joamie, Anna Ziegler & Rebecca Hainnu
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Dene (Chipewyan) Language Classification Verbs - Mary Jane Kasyon
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Blackfoot Stories of Old - Lena Russell & Inge Genee
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Resources in nêhiyawêwin / Denesųłiné - University nuhelot'ine thaiyots'i nistameyimakanak Blue Quills Indigenous Resource Centre
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Dene Dedline Yatie. ?erehtl'ischo. Deninu Kue Yatie = Chipewyan Dictionary - South Slave Divisional Education Council
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Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History - Kerry Abel
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Denesuline Language: Denesuline Dictionary - Leon W. Elford & Marjorie Elford
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Night Spirits: The Story of the Relocation of the Sayisi Dene - Ila Bussidor, Üstün Bilgen-Reinart
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These Are Our Legends - Jan van Eijk
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Nanabosho Steals Fire - Joseph McLellan
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Nanabosho, Soaring Eagle and the Great Sturgeon - Joe McLellan
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Red Parka Mary - Peter Eyvindson
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The Missing Sun - Peter Eyvindson
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Nanabosho and the Cranberries - Joe McLellan and Matrine Therriault
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Nanabosho & Kitchie Odjig - Joe McLellan and Matrine Therriault
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mâci-nêhiyawêwin / Beginning Cree - Solomon Ratt
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Funny Little Stories - Arok Wolvengrey
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Wisahkecahk Flies to the Moon - Freda Ahenakew
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My Kokom Called Today - Iris Loewen
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The Drum Calls Softy - David Bouchard & Shelley Willier
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Fatty Legs - Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
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The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories. Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto - Alexander Morris
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Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State - Tamra Starblanket
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PIMATISIWIN: The Good Life, Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems - Priscilla Settee
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Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada - Sheila Cote-Meek & Taima Moeke-Pickering
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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge - Marie Battiste & James Youngblood Henderson
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History: 1940-1980 - Mary Jane Logan McCallum
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Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters - Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell & Christine Belcourt
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As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens - Pamela Palmater
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Gather: Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling - Richard Van Camp
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Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families, and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women - Emmanuelle Walter
Artist Of The Month
Northern Cree
Northern Cree, also known as the Northern Cree Singers, is a powwow and Round Dance drum and singing group, based in Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada. Formed in 1982 by the Wood brothers; Steve, Randy, Charlie and Earl Wood of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation.
