Kohkom's first drum = Nôhkom nistam omistikwaskihkoma
"In this moving picture book, Charlie's Kookum tells the story of recently receiving her first drum. Kookum wasn't raised Cree because she was taken from her family as a child as part of the Sixties Scoop. After hearing her story, Charlie offers to teach Kookum a song on his drum--and they agree to...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | Cree English |
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[Victoria, British Columbia] :
Orca Book Publishers,
2026.
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| Summary: | "In this moving picture book, Charlie's Kookum tells the story of recently receiving her first drum. Kookum wasn't raised Cree because she was taken from her family as a child as part of the Sixties Scoop. After hearing her story, Charlie offers to teach Kookum a song on his drum--and they agree to go to the Friendship Center drum circle every week from now on. This bilingual book includes full text in both English and Plains Cree."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm Issued also in electronic formats. |
| ISBN: | 9781459845831 1459845838 |
| Author Notes: | Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, bestselling author and public speaker. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique's writing and her speaking engagements is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Her books include Speaking our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, My Heart Fills With Happiness, You Hold Me Up, Lucy and Lola, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, Tilly and the Crazy Eights, When We Are Kind and I Hope. She has also created the young adult adaptation of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Monique is Cree and Scottish. She lives with her family on the Traditional Territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples. Karlene Harvey is Tŝilhqot'in and Syilx and currently lives on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They studied at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, earning a BFA in visual arts. When they are not making art, Karlene enjoys exploring rocky West Coast beaches with their daughter, learning their Tsilhqot'in language, and spending time in their garden. Dorothy Thunder is a Plains Cree (nêhiyawiskwêw) from Little Pine First Nation, Saskatchewan and full-time Cree instructor in Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. |
