Children's Nonfiction Native Canadian
Honouring the Buffalo
A Plains Cree Legend
- Publisher
- Your Nickel's Worth Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2015
- Category
- Native Canadian, General
- Recommended Age
- 4 to 12
- Recommended Grade
- p to 7
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927756331
- Publish Date
- Feb 2015
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
"A long time ago, Our People came from the Northern Woodlands to the Great Plains looking for food," Grandfather said. "They saw that the Buffalo lived in harmony with Mother Earth the same as Our People did."
Through the Creator, the buffalo gave themselves as a gift for the sustenance and survival of the Plains Cree people. The largest land animal in North America once thundered across the Great Plains in numbers of 30 to 50 million. They provided shelter, food, clothing, tools, hunting gear, ceremonial objects and many other necessities for those who lived on the Plains.
But by 1889, just over a thousand buffalo remained, and the lives of the Plains Cree people changed. The buffalo is honoured to this day, a reminder of life in harmony with nature as it was once lived. This is the story of how the buffalo came to share themselves so freely.
Awards:
Winner. Silver, 2015 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards.
Finalist. 2016 Saskatchewan Book Awards: Aboriginal Publishers Award, Aboriginal Writers Award, Children’s Literature Award.
Winner. 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Finalist. 2016 High Plains Book Awards: Children’s Book Award; Art and Photography Award.
2015 Best Books for Kids & Teens.
About the authors
Judith Silverthorne is an award-winning author of children’s novels and series, including the Dinosaur Adventure Series – Dinosaur Hideout (which also has a Japanese edition), Dinosaur Breakout, Dinosaur Stakeout, and Dinosaur Blackout – as well as The Secret of Sentinel Rock, The Secret of the Stone Circle, and The Secret of the Stone House. She is also the author of two non-fiction adult books. She has contributed numerous articles and columns for newspapers and magazines, and has worked as an editor, evaluator, researcher, curator, book reviewer, television documentary producer and scriptwriter, and arts administrator.Judith has presented readings and writing workshops at libraries, schools, and other educational institutions, as well as at conferences. She currently resides in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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For illustrator Mike Keepness, growing up on Pasqua First Nation helped develop a love for nature. His wide-open prairie scenes evoke a sense of the majestic vastness of the great Canadian prairies, reminding us of our need to harmonize modern technology with an endangered ecology that is our duty to preserve.
