Indigenous Voices

Books & Accompanying Learning Resources

Looks Like Daylight

Author Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Further Research

Topics: Diversity, Indigenous Voices, Mental Health, Prejudice & Racism

Audience: ages 12 and up / grades 7 and up

Mnoomin maan’gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin

In this bilingual book, an Anishinaabe child explores the story of a precious mnoomin seed and the circle of life mnoomin sustains.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Integrated Learning, Comprehension Strategies

Topics: Diversity, Indigenous Voices

Audience: ages 3 to 6 / grades P to 1

My Name is Seepeetza

An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Key Ideas & Details, Further Research, Developing & Creating Texts, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Comprehension Strategies, Oral Language

Topics: Diversity, Human Rights & Activism, Indigenous Voices, Mental Health, Prejudice & Racism, Stories of Resilience

Audience: ages 9 to 12 / grades 4 to 7

nipehon-I Wait

A quiet, gentle story about a family working together in the Cree tradition.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Diversity, Indigenous Voices

Audience: ages 4 to 7 / Grades K to 2

niwicihaw / I Help

A simple and beautifully illustrated story in Cree and English about a young child picking rosehips in the woods with his grandmother.

Resource Skills & Subjects: Comprehension Strategies, Vocabulary Acquisition, Critical Thinking in Literacy, Integrated Learning, Developing & Creating Texts, Further Research

Topics: Diversity, Indigenous Voices

Audience: ages 4 to 7 / Grades K to 2