The Gift of the Great Buffalo

The Gift of the Great BuffaloIn this beautiful and dramatic story, bestselling author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Aly McKnight show readers how life was lived by Indigenous communities, offering the true history of life on the prairie. Rose is a young Mtis Ojibwe girl who has traveled far with her family for the biannual buffalo hunt made up of hundreds of other Mtis families. The ritual of the hunt has been practiced for generations, and each hunt must see the community

and a rallying cry for the preservation of priceless languages and cultures

" particularly from well-known art teachers such as Arizona Swayney and Angel DeCora

It has learned to let go

For the first time in his life

and Patsy ponders how electricity will change all of their daily lives

It's with the love and teachings of a family that the child grows strong and gets ready for school

his If You're Not from the Prairie is on Maclean's list of the top 20 Canadian children's books

Rain decides to face the outside world again

as part of the Iroquois oral tradition

and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the author experienced in the course of one twelve-month period—from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall

Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity

Winner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for poetry