Aboriginal Resource "Must Have" List 2019/2020
Extensive list of titles with the applicable grade levels and subjects.
Extensive list of titles with the applicable grade levels and subjects.
Primary source for titles was Amazon Best Sellers in Children’s Native Canadian Story Books, as well as publishers' web pages, and library and authors' lists. Objective was to identify fiction books for ages 0-18 written by Indigenous authors that contained reconciliation-related themes. More than 150 books met the inclusion criteria.
Material divided into seven categories: graphic novel, nonfiction, novel, play, poetry, short stories, and stories. Each entry contains summary, information about the author and list of titles also written by them.
Interviewees were: Leroy Wesaw, Pat Wesaw, Rose Maney, Amy Lester Skendandore, Floria Forcia, Clarise Krause, Phyllis Fastwolf, Peggy DesJarlait, Rosebud Yellow Robe, Willard LaMere, Mae Chevalier, Marlene Straus, Ada Powers, Roselle Mars, Claire Young, Inez Running Bear Dennison, Susan Powers, Cornelia Penn, Vince Catches, Ann Lim, Dan Battise, Margaret Redcloud, Joe White, and Joan Takahara.
Lists approximately 150 works.
Compilation, edited and annotated, mainly consisting of newspaper articles published between 1920 and 1921. Text in bold, footnotes and words in square brackets are the editor's.