Creating Space: Indigenous Education Animals Just to keep the caricatures

Just to keep the caricatures in balance

and they will likely say mixed race

This is an excellent retelling of a traditional legend where the author has identified the original sources and also incorporates Ojibwe terms throughout the story

The family survives a forest fire

Includes tangled efforts to raise a monument to honour Tecumseh

Creating Space: Indigenous Education Animals Just to keep the caricaturesCreating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education is the memoir of distinguished Elder and educator Verna J. Kirkness. Her story of Indigenous education begins on the Fisher River First Nation community. As the first cross cultural consultant for the Manitoba Department of Education Curriculum Branch she made Cree and Ojibway the languages of instruction in several Manitoba schools. In the early 1970s she became the first Education Director for