Fox On The Ice (FNCR 2004) Character Education illustrator Gabrielle Grimard and translated

illustrator Gabrielle Grimard and translated into Cree by Dolores Sand and Gayle Weenie is a primary level picture book that explains language loss among First Nations residential school survivors and their descendants

He was left on his own and he had survived by eating berries and he had grown into the Sasquatch he now was

Cody O’Neil

This book is therefore not about multi-generational efforts of reconnecting with Indigenous kin and/or reclaiming an Indigenous identity dispossessed by colonial policies through the Indian Act

white and pale blue drawings

Fox On The Ice (FNCR 2004) Character Education illustrator Gabrielle Grimard and translatedFox on the Ice: Maageesees Maskwameek Kaapit is Cree playwright Tomson Highway's third installment in the children's book series, Songs of the North trilogy. Previous titles are Dragonfly Kites and Caribou Song. In Fox on the Ice readers meet brothers Joe and Cody, their parents, and pet dog who all live in northern Manitoba. This Cree family maintains a traditional lifestyle and in a winter setting the family spends the day ice fishing. Everyone is