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Come Walk in My Moccasins Newsletter September 2026 |
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In this Issue:
Books: Nighty-Night: A Bedtime Song for Babies, Phyllis's Orange Shirt, Poppa and the Mystical Maskwi: A Lesson in the White Birch Tree, You Will Wear a White Shirt Our Arts: Hotdog Water Art Our Music: Calling Our Four Grandfathers Song Our Words: Colours in Kanyen'keha Our Stories: How Raven Stole the Sun Our Traditions: Wild Rice Harvest Our Recipes: Corn Pudding |
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| Nighty-Night: A Bedtime Song for Babies
Infant/Toddler
Nighty-Night: A Bedtime Song for Babies is a gentle rhyming poem for infants preparing for sleep. This board book by Richard Van Camp celebrates babies and their parents or caregivers as the babies are sung to sleep at night. (Exerpt from Goodminds.com) |
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| Phyllis's Orange Shirt
Preschool
This book is an adaptation of Phyllis’s The Orange Shirt Story. Phyllis’s Orange Shirt is suitable for 4 to 6 year-olds and while based on the original story, this version has been simplified, shortened, has a rhyming scheme and gentler images. (Exerpt from Goodminds.com) |
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Poppa and the Mystical Maskwi: A Lesson in the White Birch Tree
Primary
Discover the extraordinary story of the Maskwi – the White Birch Tree – and its central place in Mi’kmaw life, survival, and cultural renewal. Once known as the Tree of Life and a sacred Gift from the Creator, the White Birch offered everything our ancestors needed to endure the harshest conditions: shelter in the wigwam, transportation by canoe, fire for warmth and cooking, powerful medicines, nourishing food, and the everyday tools that sustained families and communities. (Exerpt from Strongnations.com) |
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You Will Wear a White Shirt
Teen/Young Adult
The compelling autobiography of Nick Sibbeston, residential school survivor and one of the North’s most influential leaders.
Growing up in a remote Northern community, Nick Sibbeston had little reason to believe he would one day fulfill his mother’s ambition of holding a career where he would “wear a white shirt.” Torn away from his family and placed in residential school at the age of five, Sibbeston endured loneliness, callous treatment and sexual assault by an older boy, but discovered a love of learning that would compel him to complete a law degree and pursue a career in politics. (Exerpt from Strongnations.com) |
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| Hotdog Water Art
This month's featured Indigenous artist is Tsista (Tehatsistahawi) Kennedy. Tsista is an Anishinaabe and Onyota’a:ka artist, belonging to Beausoleil First Nation and Oneida Nation of the Thames and is the founder of Hotdog Water Art. |
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| Calling Our Four Grandfathers Song
ONWA is proud to offer their virtual drum book, so we can learn these songs together. (2:28 minute video) |
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| Colors in Kanyen'keha
Learn the colors in Kanyen'keha (Mohawk language) along with Kahwa:tsire Programs. (.55 second video) |
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| How the Raven Stole the Sun
This story tells how the Raven stole the sun and provided light for all of creation. (4.00 minute video) |
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| Wild Rice Harvest - Kawartha Lakes 2017
The Anishnaabeg wild rice harvest tradition was an educational cultural heritage experience featured in the Kawartha Lakes 2017 Doors Open event held at Gamiing Nature Centre, 1884 Pigeon Lake Road, in Kawartha Lakes. Exerpt from Explore Kawartha Lakes (2:28 minute video)
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| Corn Pudding
This month Kennedy shares a recipe for Corn Pudding. |
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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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| 2026 Akwesasne International Powwow, Cornwall, ON Saturday & Sunday, September 12-13 |
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| Harvest Moon Pow-Wow, High Banks Park, Walpole Island Saturday & Sunday, September 12-13 |
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| 5th Annual Indigenous Art Exhibition, Queen's University, Kingston, ON Tuesday, September 15 – October 3 |
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| National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Belleville, ON Wednesday, September 30 |
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| | National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Kingston, ON Wednesday, September 30 |
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