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Canada’s Natives Long Ago
Rated 4.80 out of 5
$34.99
Canada’s Natives Long Ago is a delightful and educational curriculum that offers a unique, and often first-hand perspective on the rich history and culture of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Designed to be both fun and informative, it is an ideal choice for children of all ages who are eager to learn about the diverse and fascinating world of Canada’s First Nations.

The chapters on the seven culture groups include lists of living resources, curated videos along with the beautifully illustrated content pages. The idea of a project book is introduced with instructions in each lesson, and downloadable cut-out images to include in the project book or lap-book. Everything is laid out for the teacher.
- ISBN: 9781927474068
- Author: Donna Ward
- 100 pages, 60 lessons
- Ages: 8-12
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Canada’s Natives All Inclusive Bundle
$299.00
Canada’s Natives Long Ago will transport you and your children on an educational journey into the rich history and diverse cultures of Canada’s First Nations. The curriculum, combined with captivating living books in the bundle, helps you delve into the lives, traditions, and beliefs of the indigenous peoples who have called Canada home for centuries.

It won’t even feel like school!
- ISBN: 9780123453204
- Ages: 8-12
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Aboriginal Novel Bundle
Rated 5.00 out of 5
$54.00
Read great novels about the different First Nations cultures across our land.

Ages: 8-12

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Birchbark Bundle
$59.00
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Omakayas, a young Ojibway girl, lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior around 1847. The First Nations perspective of the time of Little House on the Prairie, these books give a sweet and alternative narrative to the usual one. We have been waiting for these books and they do not disappoint!
- ISBN: 9780123453563
- Author: Louise Erdich
- Ages: 8-12
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Birchbark House (Birchbark House #1)
$12.50
Omakayas, a young Ojibway girl, lives with her family on an island in Lake Superior around 1847. Erdrich, drawing on her family’s history, tells us the story from the First Nations perspective.
- ISBN: 9780063064164
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- 244 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Chickadee (Birchbark House #4)
$12.50
Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have done everything together since the day they were born—until the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated.
- ISBN: 9780060577926
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- 224 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Game of Silence (Birchbark House #2)
$12.50
Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas′s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west.

That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home.
- ISBN: 9780064410298
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- 288 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Julie
$12.50
This sequel to George’s Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves continues the story of Julie Edwards Miyax Kapugen, now living in the Eskimo village of Kangik with her father, Kapugen. Julie worries that her father will shoot the wolves if they threaten the herd he is raising as part of the village’s industry.

Julie’s decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come.
- 240 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Julie of the Wolves
$12.50
To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax: to her penpal in San Francisco, she is Julie. After an incident, Miyax runs away, only to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness.

With food and time running out, Miyax tries to survive by copying the ways of a pack of wolves. Accepted by their leader and befriended by a feisty pup named Kapu, she soon grows to love her new wolf family. Life in the wilderness is a struggle, but when she finds her way back to civilization, Miyax is torn between her old and new lives. Is she Miyax of the Eskimos, or Julie of the wolves?
- 201 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Julie’s Wolf Pack
$12.50
From the author of the Newbery Medal–winning Julie of the Wolves and its sequel, Julie, comes a third exciting adventure about the wolf pack that saved the life of a young girl when she was lost on the tundra. The story of Julie continues in Julie’s Wolf Pack from the point of view of the wolves who rescued her.
- 208 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Makoons (Birchbark House #5)
$12.50
Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear, Makoons and his twin, Chickadee, have traveled with their family to the Great Plains of Dakota Territory. There they must learn to become buffalo hunters and once again help their people make a home in a new land. But Makoons has had a vision that foretells great challenges—challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.

Based on Louise Erdrich’s own family history, this fifth book in the series features black-and-white interior illustrations, a note from the author about her research, as well as a map and glossary of Ojibwe terms.
- ISBN: 9780060577957
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- 176 pages
- Ages: 8-12
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Not My Girl
$9.99
Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by evocative illustrations, Not My Girl makes the original, award-winning memoir, A Stranger at Home, accessible to younger children. It is also a sequel to the picture book When I Was Eight.
- 36 pages
- Ages: 6-9
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