by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
In just four days young Shi-shi-etko will have to leave her family and all that she knows to attend residential school. She spends her last days at home treasuring the beauty of her world — the dancing sunlight, the tall grass, each shiny rock, the tadpoles in the...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children’s experiences at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. As they begin their journey...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
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...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
This simple story in Cree and English explores a young child’s relationship to his grandmother, or nôhkom, as they go for a walk in the woods to pick rosehips. The young boy follows his grandmother, walking, listening, praying, picking and eating, just as she does. In...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Feb 18, 2025
A young child, her grandmother and mother are going out to pick wild yarrow. As Grandmother gets ready, the child and her mom wait. Grandmother leads the way to the field of blossoms, where they can finally start to pick … only now they have to wait for Mom! The...
