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Kinship and Family Histories

This section is for stories about family members or families as a whole. Kinship is expansive for Indigenous peoples and has different connotations for different nations.

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SAPL Tea and Bannock – Phyllis and Lynn

Award for Community Tea and Bannock

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St. Albert Public Library
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Kinship and Family Histories, Culture and Worldviews
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Marilyn Contois - Our Stories Matter

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Lethbridge Public Library
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Kinship and Family Histories, Language, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories, Place, Land and Territory
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Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.
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Wayne Provost - Our Stories Matter

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Lethbridge Public Library
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Kinship and Family Histories, Language, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories, Place, Land and Territory
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Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.
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Katie Jo Rabbit - Our Stories Matter

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Lethbridge Public Library
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Kinship and Family Histories, Language, Culture and Worldviews, People and Personal Stories, Skills and Teachings, Place, Land and Territory
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Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.
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Chester Day Chief - Our Stories Matter

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Lethbridge Public Library
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Kinship and Family Histories, Language, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories, Place, Land and Territory
Summary
Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.
Survivor Portraits by Carol Wylie at EPL Exhibit

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They Didn't Know We Were Seeds: Honouring Residential School and Holocaust Survivors

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Edmonton Public Library
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Kinship and Family Histories, People and Personal Stories
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Carla Wells - Our Stories Matter

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Lethbridge Public Library
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Kinship and Family Histories, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories
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Sharing our voices and truths; Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.
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Bruce Day Chief - Our Stories Matter

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Lethbridge Public Library
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Kinship and Family Histories, Culture and Worldviews, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories
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Sharing our voices and truths: Survivors of residential school and their families who want to digitize their story, history, knowledge, teachings, memories, genealogy, resilience, traditions and healing.
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Origins

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Northern Lights Library System
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Kinship and Family Histories, History and Resistance, People and Personal Stories, Place, Land and Territory
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A story of the Parenteau family and their relationship to the Fishing Lake Metis Settlement.
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Old Joe and the Song in His Heart

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Northern Lights Library System
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Kinship and Family Histories, People and Personal Stories
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A story about Joe Deschamps.

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