It's My Party: National Indigenous Peoples Day

Publisher Description (TVO Kids):
Emily pairs up Host Niimin with her Guest Maliyah. Together they prepare to attend a traditional Pow Wow. Before the big gathering they learn a fancy shawl dance, create a traditional craft and plant flowers in a butterfly garden. 

Author Biography:
Niimin is a young Ojibwe girl who hosting her new friend and showing her all about National Indigenous Peoples Day. Niimin lives in Eastern Canada, loves posing silly for photos, wants to be an actor, and her name means dance in Ojibwe.

Resource type: Digital / media / art

Age recommendation: Grades K-3

Keywords: Culture exchange, National Indigenous Peoples' Day, fancy shawl dance, corn husk doll, drumming, Powwow, intergenerational learning, sharing, Oneida, Ojibwe, Haudenosaunee, singing, planting, daughters, moms, jingle dance, regalia

Year of publication: n.d.

Publisher information: TVO Kids