Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message

Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning MessageGiving Thanks is a special children's version of the Thanksgiving Address, a message of gratitude that originated with the Native people of upstate New York and Canada and that is still spoken at ceremonial gatherings held by the Iroquois, or Six Nations. A Native American writer and illustrator have combined their talents to produce this lovely and inspiring picture book based on the traditional Mohawk morning prayer, or "Thanksgiving Address to

Richard Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime as he muses on the universe

to understand both her and her baby’s origins

On a winter's day many years later

Her experiments with structure and language

and it is intended to be a practical reference tool for teachers

with a great deal of humor

His work is both a meditation on how Indigenous knowledge

a shift is occurring

In the 1900s

this book provides an important tool to those who want to be part of closing those gaps

author Diane Wilson explores the work of several modern Dakota people who are continuing to raise beloved children: Gabrielle Tateyuskanskan

this story had been lost and Polynesians had become an oppressed minority in their own land