Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids PB Smudging tracing massacres and inquisitions and

tracing massacres and inquisitions and revealing how the authors of colonialism’s written archives used language to both denigrate and erase Two-Spirit people from history

Bernard Mission residential school in Grouard

Widely used by North American indigenous peoples from many different Nations

is written by Sherry Blake an Inuk throat singer who performs with the group The Blake Sisters

Luschiim’s Plants represents his dedication to the survival of the Hul′q′umi′num′ language and traditional knowledge of plants for future generations

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids PB Smudging tracing massacres and inquisitions andFeaturing stories and poems by bestselling writers: Rebecca Roanhorse, Joseph Bruchac, Art Coulson, Christine Day, Eric Gansworth, Carole Lindstrom, Dawn Quigley, David A. Robertson, Andrea L. Rogers, Kim Rogers, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Monique Gray Smith, Traci Sorell, Tim Tingle, Erika T. Wurth, Brian Young. Edited by award winning author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Indigenous writers bursts