{"product_id":"kohkoms-first-drum-nohkom-nistam-omistikwaskihkoma-english-and-plains-cree-hc","title":"Kohkom’s First Drum \/ nôhkom nistam omistikwaskihkoma (English and Plains Cree) (HC)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMonique Gray Smith is of Cree, Lakota and Scottish descent, and is based in Victoria, British Columbia. She 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. 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Charlie’s Kohkom asks him what the best part of his school day was, he knows right away: Indigenous drum circle!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKohkom tells him that not very long ago she was gifted her very first drum at a ceremony for children who never returned home from residential schools. But Charlie doesn’t understand. How could she only have gotten her first drum so recently?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKohkom explains that she was taken from her family when she was very little because of something called the Sixties Scoop. She was raised by an adoptive white family and only later learned what being Cree meant. It’s taken her a long time to feel like she belongs. Kohkom's story gives Charlie the idea to teach her a song so they can play their drums together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bilingual book includes full text in both English and Plains Cree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is also an English and a French version of this book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Audience: Ages 3-5. This book contains \u003cspan class=\"illustrations\"\u003e17 Colour illustrations\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orca Book Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56394895524145,"sku":"cyb1789937163959","price":10.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/0925\/7009\/files\/kohkoms-first-drum-nohkom-nistam-omistikwaskihkoma-english-and-plains-cree-hc_1.jpg?v=1789937169","url":"https:\/\/canistersealfit.shop\/products\/kohkoms-first-drum-nohkom-nistam-omistikwaskihkoma-english-and-plains-cree-hc","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}