Trudy's Rock Story
by Trudy Spiller & Jessika Von Innerebner
Description:
Publisher's description (Medicine Wheel Education, 2017):
When a young girl from the Gitxsan Nation argues with her brother, she remembers the teachings of her grandmother and goes in search of a stone to share her feelings with. This engaging First Nation’s story teaches children that it is okay to have feelings and shows them how to process and release negative thoughts.
Author/Creator's biography (Medicine Wheel Publishing, 2017):
Trudy is part of the Gitxsan Nation in British Columbia and belongs to the House of Gwininitxw of the Wolf Clan. Trudy’s traditional name, Lugaganowals, means a frog that is always leaning or giving. Trudy and her siblings were brought up to believe that children are like flowers. Today, she helps families to grow and flourish by sharing her knowledge of First Nation medicine, food, dress, and practices. By sharing her stories, Trudy makes knowledge keepers of us all.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: kindergarten to grade 3
Keywords: British Columbia First Nations, rocks, emotional regulation, Gitxsan, traditional knowledge, land-based learning, Elders, resilience, family, sibling, grandmother, stories, oral story-telling, language, pronunciation guide, lessons, culture, tradition, food, sharing, emotions, land, Mother Earth, nature, land connection, kinship, knowledge keeper,
Year of publication: 2017
Publisher information: Medicine Wheel Education
Teaching and Learning Ideas
Our team collaborated with new teachers, alumni of the Werklund School of Education’s Bachelor of Education program, to create teaching and learning plans for texts in this website. With audiences ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to Post-Secondary, lesson plans across this resource address a wide range of school subject areas, inclusive approaches, and Indigenous education topics, such as the revitalization of Indigenous languages. As this website was designed with Undergraduate Programs in Education instructors, as well as teachers in mind, connections to UPE courses have been flagged on each lesson plan. These lessons are intended as a starting place for educators, to help you envision ways in which you might bring Indigenous literatures, as well as ways of knowing, being, and doing, into your teaching contexts. Please adapt, use, and share these lessons in ways that are generative for your teaching practice. We offer our sincere thanks to the dozens of new teachers who gifted us with these creative ideas!
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