New Poets of Native Nations Preschool Betty was a little girl

Betty was a little girl when the fire swept the area

Metis writer Beatrice Culleton Mosionier has crafted a compelling allegory about the destructiveness of war and presents a fresh approach to Canadian history for elementary level students

and personal journeys of the violence that permeated Canada’s Residential Schools and continues in Canadian homes today

and casts new light on an allied military strategy that very nearly succeeded

Leah Marie Dorion’s My First Métis Lobstick takes young readers back to Canada’s fur trade era by focusing on a Métis family’s preparations for a lobstick celebration and feast in the boreal forest

New Poets of Native Nations Preschool Betty was a little girlNew Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Editor Heid E. Erdrich, Ojibwe, and enrolled at Turtle Mountain, has selected twenty one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works of poets coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are poems of great breadthlong