Ahenakew, Freda (Editor/ Translator). Illustrator/ George
Littlechild. 1988. How the Mouse Got Brown Teeth: A Cree Story for Children.
Saskatoon, SK: Fifth House. ISBN: 0-920079-40-7
Age: 8 - 11
Language: English
Subject: Children; Myths & Legends; Plains, Cree

A boy ignores his grandmother’s warnings and ends up snaring the sun in a tree. He asks the animals for help. Mouse chews through the snare and sets the sun free, but ends up with brown teeth.

Alexie, Robert Arthur. 2005. Pale Indian. Penguin Canada. ISBN: 0-1430-1553-2
Age: 16+
Language: English
Subject: Adult; Fiction; Gwich’in, NWT

The story takes place in Canada’s Northwest Territories, a few hundred miles south of Inuvik. For thousands of years, people in the region had lived undisturbed. Then in 1850 things began to change with the arrival of missionaries, RCMP and other white people. This book documents some of these changes.

Alexie, Robert Arthur. 2002. Porcupine and China Dolls. Stoddart Publishing. ISBN: 0-7737-3305-1
Age: 16+
Language: English
Subject: Adult; Fiction; Gwich’in, NWT

Porcupine and China Dolls shows the continuing legacy of residential school survivors 30 years later.