The Sockeye Mother
by Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett David Huson) & Natasha Donovan
Description:
This beautifully illustrated Picturebook details the salmon cycle, including definitions of important terms integrated throughout. To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the sockeye Salmon is more than just a source of food. Over its life cycle, it nourishes the very land and forests that the Skeena River runs through and where the Gitxsan make their home. The Sockeye Mother explores how the animals, water, soil, and seasons are all intertwined. A map of the Gitxsan territory is included in the back of the book.Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett David Huson) is from the Gitxsan Nation, an Indigenous people from an unceded territory in the Northwest Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Natasha Donovan is a member of the Métis Nation of British Columbia.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: Grades 4 - 7
Keywords: salmon cycle, Gitxsan, animals, interconnected nature, salmon, land based learning, traditional ecological knowledge
Year of publication: 2017
Publisher information: Highwater Press
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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