Canadian, Aboriginal

Maracle, Lee. 2001. Ravensong: A Novel. 7th Printing. Raincoast Books.
ISBN: 0-88974-044-5
Age: 16+
Language: English
Subject: Adult; Fiction; Pacific Northwest

This story is set in the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s. Stacey has to balance her traditional lifestyle with life in the dominant society.

Canadian

Marceau-Chenkie, Brittany. Illustrator/ Shelley Brookes. 1999. Naya, The Inuit Cinderella. Yellowknife, NT: Raven Rock Publishing. ISBN: 1-894303-05-9
Age: Pre-school - 10
Language: English
Subject: Children; Fiction; Arctic; Inuit

This book was written by a Grade 5 student. Naya, a young Inuit girl, decides to live on the land with her grandfather, where she sews and helps her grandfather hunt caribou.

Canadian, Aboriginal

Marie, Suzan & Judy Thompson. 2004. Whadöô Tehmï. Long-Ago People’s Packsacks, Dene Babiche Bags: Tradition and Revival. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Museum of Civilization. ISBN: 0-660-19248-9
Age: 12+
Language: English
Subject: Youth, Adult; Non-Fiction; NWT; Dene

This book tells the role that babiche bags played in the lives of the Dene, and the work that was done to revive this craft. It also gives instructions for making babiche bags.