Recommended Resources
J.Yovanovich
For those looking for Haida/Aboriginal Resources please check out the following this is by no
means a “complete” list but it should help you get started.
Thanks, Joanne
School District:
SD 50 Web site: Our Ancestors Photos
Haida Governance Booklet in every school
Judy Hilgeman Picture set in each school
Eng.12 First Peoples
Eng.11 First Peoples
Eng.10 First Peoples
Shared Learnings - Ministry Of Ed.
Haida Studies Kits @ DRC
Vision Quest Kits @ DRC
Many Books @ DRC
Haida Language Programs - can offer suggestions and help you find materials
SHIP CD’s and booklets
FNRW- can offer suggestions and help you find materials
Role Model Program
Songs of Haida Gwaii Box (set in each school)
Aboriginal Full Day Kindergarten Program
PALS
UBC Math Program participants can offer suggestions for math
School Libraries most have a selection of Aboriginal books
Community:
Band Education Administrators (Old Massett & Skidegate)
Elder Programs
Museums
Community Language Programs (SHIP & Xaad Kil)
Parks
CHN Offices: Fisheries, Forestry, Land Title etc…
Local Band Offices
Spruce Roots Magazine
Haida Laas Newsletter
Haida Themed and or Author Books:
A Course in Ravenstail, Cheryl Samuel
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: Classical Haida Mythtellers and their world, Robert Bringhurst
A Tale of Two Shamans, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Argillite, Leslie Drew & Douglas Wilson
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B is for Basketball, Created by Tawni Davidson, Alison Gear, Joanne Yovanovich & Beng
Favreau
Being in Being, The collected works of a Master Haida Mythteller SKAAY of the Qquuna
Qiighawaay, translated from Haida by Robert Bringhurst
Bill Reid, Doris Shadbolt
Bill Reid All the Gallant Beasts and Monster, Buschlen, Mowatt
Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe, Edited by Martine J. Reid
Black Canoe, Ulli Stelzer and Robert Bringhurst
Carving a Totem Pole, Vickie Jensen
Cedar, Hilary Stewart
Charles Edenshaw, Vancouver Art Gallery
Chiefs of Sea & Sky, George F. MacDonald
Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida, John R Swanton, 1905
During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, Margaret Blackman
Eagle of the Dawn, Robert Davidson, Douglas & McIntyre 1993
Eagle transforming, The Art of Robert Davidson, Ulli Steltzer & Robert Davidson
Flight of the Hummingbird, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Food Plants, Nancy Turner
Four Decades An Innocent Gesture, Robert Davidson
Gyaagang.ngaay, The Monumental Poles of Skidegate, Heather Ramsay
Gaaw Kaaygang Gyaahlangee (Massett Birth Stories), Haida Child & Family Services & Old
Massett Haida Health Centre
Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas, Nine visits to the Mythworld, Robert Bringhurst
Gina ‘Waadluxan Tluu The Everything Canoe, Compiled & edited by Heather Ramsay &
Kwiaahwah Jones
Haida Art, George MacDonald
Haida Carvers in Argillite, Marius C. Barbeau, 1957
Haida Gwaii, Human History & Environment from the Time of the Loon,
Haida Monumental Art, George F MacDonald
Haida Potlatch, Ulli Steltzer
Haida Printmaker, Hilary Stewart
Haida Texts & Myths, John R. Swanton
Indian Artists at Work, Ulli Steltzer
Indian Fishing, Hilary Stewart
Islands at the Edge: Preserving the Queen Charlotte Islands, John Broadhead, 1984
Listening to our Ancestors, the Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast, Edited by
Robert Joseph
Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, Hilary Stewart
Looking at Totem Poles, Hilary Stewart
Looks Like Daylight, Deborah Ellis
Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princesses, Christie Harris
Ninstints, Haida World Heritage Site, George F MacDonald
North Coast Indian Art, Bill Holm
Northern Haida Master Carvers, Robin K Wright
Plants of Haida Gwaii, Nancy Turner
QCI Readers Series, 14 Books in this series
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Queen Charlotte Islands Vol 1 1774-1966, Kathleen E. Dalzell
Queen Charlotte Islands Vol 2 Places & Names Kathleen E. Dalzell
Queen Charlotte Islands Vol. 3 The Beloved Island, Kathleen E Dalzell
Raven Steals the light, Bill Reid, Robert Bringhurst
Raven Steals the light, Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd
Raven Travelling, Two Centuries of Haida Art, Vancouver Art Gallery
Raven’s Cry, Christie Harris
Red A Haida Manga, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Rediscovery Ancient Pathways, New Directions, Thom Henley
Robes of Power, Doreen Jensen & Polly Sargent
Sea & Cedar, Lois McConkey
Sea Otter Chiefs, Michael P. Robinson
Secret of the Dance, Sue Spalding & Alfred Scow
Skidegate Haida Myths & Histories, John Swanton, John Enrico
Solitary Raven, The selected writings of Bill Reid
Spruce Roots Magazine
Spruce Root Basketry of the Haida & Tlingit, Sharon Busby
That which makes us Haida – the Haida Language, Jusquan Amanda Bedard & Jisgang Nika
Collison
The Canoe He called Loo Taas, Amanda Reid Stevens
The Queen Charlotte Islands Vol. 1 (1774-1966) K. Dalzell
This is our Life:Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practise, Cara Krmpotich, Laura
Peers
Those Born at Koona, John & Carolyn Smyly
Tluuwaay ‘Waadluxan Mathematical Adventures, Edited by Cynthia Nicol & Joanne
Yovanovich
Two Brothers – A Haida Story,
Yakoun River of Life, Council of the Haida Nation
Multi Media Resources:
Ravens & Eagles Video Series (26-1/2 hour movies) www.urbanrez.ca www.movingimages.ca
2002 & 2003
Where are the Children? http://www.wherearethechildren.ca/flash/WATCSite.html
Hidden From History, http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org/intro2.html
Truth & Reconciliation Commission http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=3
Haida Language
http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/language_and_culture_curriculum_haida.htm
http://landing.dmpibooks.com
Voices from the Talking Stick, Shenandoah Videos, Feb.21, 1997
Skidegate Haida Immersion Program (SHIP) Haida Glossary, CD’s
Songs of Haida Gwaii, Haida Gwaii Singers Anthology 2008 (CD collection)
Legends of the Old Massett Haida Gaaw Xaadee Gyaahlaangaay (CBC Audio)
School District Resource Center: Haida Study Kits, Vision Quest Kits,
Timeline from Enhancement Agreement
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First Nations Books used in most SD 50 schools
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*Haida Theme/Author
*B is for Basketball, An All Native Alphabet Book
*Four Decades An innocent Journey, Robert Davidson
*Flight of the Hummingbird, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
*From Sapling to Sea Powerpoint, K’aay ‘Llnaagaay
*Haida Gwaii Our Home,
*Gina “Waadluxan Tluu The Everything Canoe, Heather Ramsay & Kwiaahwah Jones
*Judy Hilgemann Picture & Vocabulary set
*That Which Makes Us Haida, Haida Gwaii Museum Press
*The Canoe he called Loo Taas, Amanda Reid-Stevens
A Man Called Raven, Richard Van Camp
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
Angel Wings Splash Pattern, Richard Van Camp
A Short History of Indians in Canada, Thomas King
Born with a Tooth, Joseph Boyden
Caribou Song, Tomson Highway
Cheyenne Again, by Eve Bunting
Coming to Light Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America, Brian
Swann
Coyote Sings to the Moon, Thomas King
Dragonfly Kites, Tomson Highway
Eagle Boy A Pacific Northwest Tale, Richard Lee Vaughan
First Peoples English, Resource Guides Grade 10-12, Ministry Of Education
First Wives Club, Coast Salish Style, Lee Maracle
Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence, Doris Pilkington Garimara
Gray Wolf’s Search, Bruce Swanson
Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
I am Raven, David Bouchard & Andy Everson
Ice Bear: In the Steps of the Polar Bear by Nicola Davies
Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King
Little Bear’s Vision Quest, Diane Silvey
Little You, Richard Van Camp
Keeper ‘N Me, Richard Wagamese
Kiss of the Fur Queen, Tomson Highway
Me Funny, Drew Hayden Taylor
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Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson
Mwakwa Talks to the Loon, A Cree story for Children, Dale Auger
Native Poetry in Canada A contemporary Anthology, Jeannette C Armstrong & Lally Grauer
One good Story, that One, Thomas King
Only Drunks & Children Tell the Truth, Drew Hayden Taylor
Our Story Aboriginal Voices on Canada’s Past, Rudyard Griffiths
Raven Brings the Light, Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd
S is for Spirit Bear, G. Gregory Roberts
Secret of the Dance, Andrea Spalding
Sharing Our World:Animals of the Native Northwest Coast, by Ian Reid, Ryan Cranmer, Doug
Lafortune, & John Nelson
Shi-shi-etko, Nicola Campbell
Shin-chi’s Canoe, Nicola Campbell
Sky Sisters, Jan Bourdeau Waboose
Smoke Signals, Sherman Alexie
Soloman’s Tree, Andrea Spadling
Thanks to the Animals by, Allen Sockabasin
The Drum Calls Softly, David Bouchard & Shelley Willier
The Girl who lives with Bears, Barbara Goldin
The Lesser Blessed, Richard Van Camp
The Little Duck-Sikihpsts,
The Moccasins, Earl Einarson
The Moon of Letting Go, Richard Van Camp
The Orenda, Joseph Boyden
The Rough-Face Girl, Rafe Martin
The Song Within My Heart, David Bouchard
The Truth about Stories, Thomas King
Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden
Through Black Spruce, Joseph Boyden
They called Me Number One, Bev Sellars
They Came for the Children, Truth & Reconciliation Commission
The Woman who Married a Bear, Elizabeth James
What’s the most beautiful thing you know about Horses, Richard Van Camp
Wild Berries, Julie Flett
Will’s Garden, Lee Maracle
Yesta’s Sweater, Sylvia Olsen
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Aboriginal Books can be ordered through:
Amazon www.amazon.ca
An Aboriginal Book List for Children (Google)
Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools (Association of Book Publishers of BC) Ph: 604-4211154 email:burnaby@uls.com
Chapters
www.chapters.indigo.ca
Chestnut Publishing Group www.chestnutpublishing.com
Douglas & McIntyre
D & M Publishers http://landing.dmpibooks.com
Eaglecrest Books www.eaglecrestsbooks.com
Good Minds www.goodminds.com
Haida Gwaii Museum www.haidagwaiimuseum.ca
Orca Books www.orcabook.com
Sasquatch Books www.sasquatch.com
Strong Nations Website www.strongnations.com
Smart Start learning
www.smartstartlearning.com
Theytus Books www.theytus.com
UBC Press E-mail: orders@ubcpress.ubc.ca
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