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Come Walk in My Moccasins Newsletter July 2026 |
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In this Issue:
Books: Summer Brings Berries, All the Water on Earth, Tsunaxen's Journey, Kitcikisik (Great Sky):Tellings That Fill the Night Sky Our Arts: Raspberry Relations Our Music: Nibi Song Our Words: Water in Kanyen'keha Our Stories: Nanaboozhoo Reads "The Water Walker" Our Traditions: Water as a Relative Our Recipes: Raspberry Jam Pancakes |
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| Summer Brings Berries
Infant and Toddler
Introduce babies and toddlers to the abundance of wild coastal food in this board book featuring vibrant new art by Roy Henry Vickers.
From salmonberries and spruce tips to crabs, mussels and spotted prawns, the West Coast is home to wild delicacies. In this sturdy and tactile board book, Roy Henry Vickers and Lucky Budd use rhyming text and colourful imagery to explore and celebrate traditional foods of the West Coast.
Summer Brings Berries is part of the First West Coast Book Series, which helps babies and toddlers learn foundational knowledge (including their ABCs, colours and numbers), and it will have children building vocabulary around taste, food and the wild world around them. (excerpt from Goodminds.com) |
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| All The Water on Earth
Preschool and Kindergarten
Award-winning author Rochelle Strauss’s picture book adaptation of her bestselling book One Well invites readers to notice how water is flowing all around them, in streams and rivers and oceans and even underground. The book shows that water - our most precious resource, needed by everyone and everything on Earth - is finite. Even though that water constantly circles from Earth to the sky and back down again, all the water on Earth is … well, all the water we’ll ever have. So, everyone needs to help protect it! (excerpt from Strongnations.com) |
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Tsunaxen's Journey
Primary
Tsunaxen sets off on a relaxing canoe ride and has an adventure instead! In a Coast Salish village, beautifully described with bright illustrations, lives young Tsunaxen who knows to practice his cultural teachings by giving thanks and trusting in the Creator, no matter what he encounters. (excerpt from Goodminds.com) |
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| Kitcikisik (Great Sky): Tellings That Fill the Night Sky
Teen and Adult
Pawaminikititicikiw, Wilfred Buck, is an Ininew/Cree, Knowledge and Dream Keeper of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation of Northern Manitoba.
The stars of the Big Dipper are the focus of Kitcikisik (Great Sky) Tellings That Fill the Night Sky. In this book we hear of Mista Muskwa (Great Bear), Mikisiw Mikwun Atik (Eagle Staff), Mistatim (Horse) and Ocik (Fisher). Cree and Cree syllabics, images, diagrams, constellation maps, original artwork are included in Kitcikisik. (excerpt from Goodminds.com) |
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| Raspberry Relations: Let's Reconcile Amidst the Bushes
The teachings of the raspberry, nurturing, patience, and care, are a core inspiration for this piece, as the raspberry represents a blend of personal memories with themes of relationships, community, and our deep connection to the land. “[…] memories of that house began to fade, but the lessons from those raspberry bushes remained vivid. They remind me of the cherished moments my dad and I spent tending to the land together.”
Special Note: If you look through the door of The Dawson Restaurant, you can view the artworks currently on display in Stone’s Throw Café through the window. We hope you are able to sense the conversations taking place between the works. (excerpt from LodgePole Arts Alliance) |
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| Nibi Song
Another beautiful song from ONWA's virtual drum book. This Water song is from Doreen Day. It came to her after her grandson asked for a song for the water. (3:23 minute video) |
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Water in Kanyen'keha
Learn to say water in Kanyen'keha - the Mohawk language -with Tsitha! |
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| Nanaboozhoo Reads The Water Walker
Ojibwe puppet, Nanaboozhoo, reads the book The Water Walker. The book was written and illustrated by Joanne Robertson and is a true story of Grandmother Josephine Mandamin, the original Kokum who walked for the water. (8:13 minute video) |
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| Water as a Relative
This video focuses on human relationships with Water from Indigenous and Western Scientific perspectives. This video can be used with QUILLS Water and Contaminants in the Environment Learning Bundle. https://elbowlakecentre.ca/quills/
This video introduces us to Rick Beaver, Anishinaabe biologist and artist, Alderville First Nation, Elder Dr. Shirley Ida Williams ba, Ojibway and Odawa Elder, Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island, Shelley Arnott, Professor of Aquatic Ecology, Queen’s University and Liz Osawamick, Ojibway and Odawa Knowledge Keeper, Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island.
Each contributor shares knowledge to help deepen our understanding of water as a relative, revealing perspectives of Anishnaabe and Western Science human-water relationships. |
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| Raspberry Jam Pancakes
This month, Kennedy has selected a recipe for raspberry jam pancakes. Enjoy! |
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Indigenous Language Resources |
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| Mohawk Language Learning Resource This open education resource (OER) may be used a supplementary resource to learning the Mohawk language at the beginner level. In the first part of the OER, the basic morphology, of the language is introduced through pronouns, pronoun prefixes, particles, and verb roots. The second part introduces vocabulary builders. Finally, in the third part, basic conversational language is explored.
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Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na provides Mohawk language and culture programming at the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory (the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte). They run several programs, including Totáhne (At Grandma's House) for preschool children, Kawenna'ón:we Primary Immersion (K-4) and Shatiwennakará:tats, a year long program for Adults. |
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Free Anishinaabemowin printable resources, lesson plans, and videos to help learn the language |
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| Ohné:ka Healing Project Educator's Resource Guide Created by Abraham Francis and Dr. Sarah Konwahahawi Rourke in collaboration with the Indigenous Arts Collective, designed to reconnect youth and communities with traditional teachings and the sacred responsibility to Water. |
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| Nurturing Childhoods Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing Explore teachings, strategies, and resources that guide the inclusion of Indigenous ways of knowing in early learning environments. This is a FREE online course provided by the University of British Columbia. |
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| Toronto Zoo- Turtle Island Conservation Toronto Zoo's Turtle Island Conservation programme (TIC) respectfully shares the hopes and goals of First Nation partners in our committment to the preservation of biodiversity. TIC partners with First Nation communities to preserve community knowledge and significant natural and cultural landscapes.
Resources available in Ojibwe and Mohawk. |
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Sources for Indigenous books:
Indigenous Book Lending:
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Strawberry Social, Kingston, ON
Saturday, July 4 |
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| Kewaywin Drum Circle, Kingston, ON July 8 & July 22 |
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| Indigenous Water Teachings, ONLINE Tuesday, July 14 |
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Help us become more inclusive of the many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples among our readership. Share an Indigenous recipe, song, or traditional art through Come Walk in My Moccasins. Contact kahwatsire@mbq-tmt.org if you are interested in becoming a guest contributor.
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