The Secret Pocket (HC) Smudging Siha Tooskin Knows the Nature

Siha Tooskin Knows the Nature of Life is part of the Siha Tooskin Knows early chapter book series by Charlene Bearhead

This work Includes a list of illustrations

herbal teacher Tis Mal Crow examines common wild plants and in a clear style explains how to identify

These poems of life on the land as well as life in the city

is about Maisie Cannon

The Secret Pocket (HC) Smudging Siha Tooskin Knows the NatureWritten by Peggy Janicki, Coast Salish Dakelh, and illustrated by Carrielynn Victor, a descendant of Coast Salish ancestors, this is the true story of how Indigenous girls at a Canadian residential school sewed secret pockets into their dresses to hide food and survive. Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort