Bear Bones and Feathers Children-Non Fiction Faye Travers is startled to

Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan

he is able to connect to his culture and find a confidence in his voice to joyfully share in singing the traditional songs of his Nuu-chah-nulth Nation

Contributions by: Lydia (Vittrekwa/Valetsi/Neyando) Alexie/Elias

This was a boarding school (residential school) run by the government

The need for healing—not only individuals but health systems and practices—is clear

Bear Bones and Feathers Children-Non Fiction Faye Travers is startled toLouise Bernice Halfe Sky Dancer was raised on Saddle Lake Reserve and attended Blue Quills Residential School. In this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide. Employing Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts, celebrated poet Louise B. Halfe Sky Dancer finds an irrepressible