A Mighty Girl's Reading Series kicks off with 40 of our favorite girl-empowering picture books for young children.
Rarely accessible beyond the limits of its people, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning and mystery, as broad, as deep, and as innately appealing as the mythologies of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other civilizations. In Ojibway Heritage, Basil Johnston sets forth the broad spectrum of his people’s life, legends, and beliefs. Stories to be read, enjoyed, dwelt on, and freely interpreted, their authorship is perhaps most properly attributed to the tribal storytellers who have carried on the oral tradition which Basil Johnston records and preserves in this book.
Rinelle Harper, who was viciously assaulted and left for dead last month, has added her voice to the call for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.
By their own thorough histories, Wyandotte or Wyandot peoples consist of more than one group. Some were forced out of Ohio/Michgian and a few received some money.
These17 picture books written by Native American and First Nations authors introduce kids to every day life, history, culture, and struggles for justice.
A selection of copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, 1671.
Dark-skinned women- of all races- are portrayed as ugly, dumb, miserable & as sexual objects. Why? And what are the implications? Did you watch the above video? If you didn’t, go back an…
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The discovery of the world’s oldest ground-edge ax in Australia exposes our faulty assumptions about race, place, and human evolution.
In Canada, the aim of the Indian residential schools was to "kill the Indian in the child."
Canada has a founding people who once traversed North America’s interior in Red River carts, hunted bison with military precision, danced and jigged to spirited fiddle rhythms, wore brightly adorned embroidered clothing, spoke one of humanity’s unique languages, prayed to Li Bon Jeu/Kitchi Manitou and to their patron saint, St. Joseph, and even had their own werewolf. These people were the Métis. Within non-Indigenous society, there are two competing ideas of what being Métis means. The first, when spelled with a lowercase “m” (métis), means individuals or people having mixed-race parents and ancestries, e.g., North American Indigenous and European/Euro-Canadian/Euro-American.
by Marlene Leung, CTV News, Dec 15, 2015 Aboriginal children attending residential schools died at a higher rate than school-aged children in the general population, and were often buried in unmark…
