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In association with our affiliate, amazon.com, the following books are highly recommended for all children.

Did You Hear Wind Sing Your Name? An Oneida Song of Spring By Sandra De Coteau Orie,

$10.46

The People Shall Continue By Simon Ortiz

This is one of the best overviews of Native history for young children that there is. With simplicity, Ortiz gives the true story of how it was, how it is, and-with hope and a little luck-maybe how it will come to be, for all of us.
$13.45

Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival

A young child and his family prepare for Itse Selu, the Green Corn Festival, a thanksgiving for the corn harvest and celebration of the new year. $5.56

Grandfather Drum By Ferguson Plain

When the weather turns cool, and the leaves are gone, grandfather gets out his drum, and tells the story of Nanaboozhoo and the Great White Owl. $11.50

How Turtle's Back Was Cracked: A Traditional Cherokee Tale

Turtle's boastful ways once again lead to big trouble. Murv Jacob's illustrations are just perfect. $11.19

Muskrat Will Be Swimming

This is a lovely story of a child who, gently guided by her grandfather's stories, finds her way in the world. "So I don't worry anymore," she says, "when kids call me Lake Rat. I know who I am, and I know about the lake, that we're part of it..." $10.46

How the Robin Got Its Red Breast: A Legend of the Sechelt People By Charlie Craigan

This traditional story tells how the courageous little gray robin saves the people, and is honored with the color given him. $6.95

Coyote & the Winnowing Birds/Iisaw Niqw Tsaayantotaqam Tsiroot: A Traditional Hopi Tale

This is a traditional story told by a Hopi elder and illustrated by the children of the Hotevilla-Bacavi Community School. Coyote tries to play a cruel trick on the birds, but they find a way to trick him instead. $14.95

We Are All Related: A Celebration of Our Cultural Heritage

By the Students of G.T. Cunningham Elementary School
With the encouragement and guidance of First Nations educators, Cree artist George Littlechild, and others, 28 students, aged 8 to 12, talked with and listened to the elders in their families and communities.

Working with photos of their elders and themselves, they created the complex and beautiful collages to express ideas about their own histories and heritages. Each two-page spread features a child's collage and words, words from an elder in the child's family, and what the term "We Are All Related" means to that child. Each work is individual, each is related to each other and to the whole. This is what "multiculturalism" is really about. $12.76

Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message.

This is Chief Swamp's adaptation for children of the Mohawk Thanksgiving Address, which acknowledges and thanks all aspects of Creation. $11.16

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