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When the Stars Came Home
Brittany Luby; Illustrated by Natasha Donovan
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R456
R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
Save R76 (17%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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How does a strange new place become home? When Ojiig moves to the
city with his family, he misses everything they left behind. Most
of all, he misses the sparkling night sky. Without the stars
watching over him, he feels lost. His parents try to help, but
nothing seems to work. Not glow-in-the-dark sticker stars, not a
star-shaped nightlight. But then they have a new idea for how to
make Ojiig feel better - a special quilt stitched through with
family stories that will wrap Ojiig in the warmth of knowing who he
is and where he came from. Join this irresistible family as they
discover the power of story and tradition to make a new place feel
like home.
In this bilingual book, an Anishinaabe child explores the story of
a precious mnoomin seed and the circle of life mnoomin sustains.
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. Key Text Features explanation
illustrations informational note translations translator’s note
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key
details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or
lesson.
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Encounter (Hardcover)
Brittany Luby; Illustrated by Michaela Goade
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R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Meet Fisher. His ancestors have paddled these waters for
generations. Meet Sailor. He has come from far away, to explore
lands beyond his own shores. What will happen when they meet each
another? Based on the real journal kept by French explorer Jacques
Cartier in 1534, Encounter imagines a first meeting between a
French sailor and a Stadaconan fisher. As they navigate their
differences with curiosity and openness, the wise animals around
them note their similarities, illuminating common ground. This
extraordinary vision by Brittany Luby, Professor of Indigenous
History, is paired with art by Michaela Goade, winner of 2018
American Indian Youth Literature Best Picture Book Award. Encounter
is a luminous telling from two Indigenous creators that invites
readers to reckon with an uncomfortable past, and to welcome,
together, a future that is yet unchartered.
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory
explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area.
It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar
Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous
communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that
hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler
populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg
from planning and operations and failed to consider how power
production might influence the health and economy of their
communities. By so doing, Canada and Ontario thwarted a future that
aligned with the terms of treaty, a future in which both settlers
and the Anishinabeg might thrive in shared territories.The same
hydroelectric development that powered settler communities flooded
manomin fields, washed away roads, and compromised fish
populations. Anishinaabe families responded creatively to manage
the government-sanctioned environmental change and survive the
resulting economic loss. Luby reveals these responses to dam
development,inviting readers to consider how resistance might be
expressed by individuals and families, and across gendered and
generational lines. Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience
together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her
paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. With evidence drawn from
archival material, oral history, and environmental observation,
Dammed invites readers to confront Canadian colonialism in the
twentieth century.
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory
explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area.
It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar
Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous
communities along the Winnipeg River. ""Dammed"" makes clear that
hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler
populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg
from planning and operations and failed to consider how power
production might influence the health and economy of their
communities. By so doing, Canada and Ontario thwarted a future that
aligned with the terms of treaty, a future in which both settlers
and the Anishinabeg thrive in shared territories. The same
hydroelectric development that powered settler communities flooded
manomin fields, washed away roads, and compromised fish
populations. Anishinaabe families responded creatively to manage
the government-sanctioned environmental change and survive the
resulting economic loss. Luby reveals these responses to dam
development, inviting readers to consider how resistance might be
expressed by individu-als and families, and across gendered and
generational lines. Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience
together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her
paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. With evidence drawn from
archival material, oral history, and environmental observation,
Dammed invites readers to confront Canadian colonialism in the
twentieth century.
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