Mzinigan Mshiiken

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  • The Piper’s Promise

    The parents were grieving, and their grief was terrible to bear. Both because of the depth and sharpness of their sadness, and because I knew that if anything horrible ever happened to me or Tom, our mother would never grieve for us that way. I wasn’t sure she would grieve for us at all. Chapter…

  • Warrior Girl Unearthed

    “The Kinomaage program has one internship slot still open. You start tomorrow at nine a.m. Every paycheck will be turned over to me until your debt is paid in full. You don’t drive it until then. Show up at the tribal museum. Your supervisor is Cooper Turtle.” Pauline gasps loudly, but I feel the sharp…

  • We Belong to the Drum / mistikwaskihk kitipêyimikonaw

    Nikosis had been listening to the drum before he was born. p. 1 Introduction Orca Publishers is knocking it out of the park again with this one, friends. We Belong to the Drum is a delightful picture book written by Sandra Lamouche (Bigstone Cree), illustrated by Azby Whitecalf (Plains Cree), and translated into Plains Cree…