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    The Honour Drum: Sharing the Beauty of Canada’s Indigenous People with Children, Families and Classrooms
    The Honour Drum: Sharing the Beauty of Canada’s Indigenous People with Children, Families and Classrooms
    The Honour Drum: Sharing the Beauty of Canada’s Indigenous People with Children, Families and Classrooms
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    The Honour Drum: Sharing the Beauty of Canada’s Indigenous People with Children, Families and Classrooms

    By Tim J Huff, Cheryl Bear-Barnetson, Tim Huff and

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    The Honour Drum is a uniquely envisioned and crafted project shared between two Canadian friends—an Indigenous woman from the West Coast and a non-Indigenous man from Ontario—to reach children, families and classrooms across Canada and around the world with a message of great beauty and truth that should not be ignored. This vibrant book is an important starting place for learning and insight that is vital and, for many people of all ages, overdue. The Honour Drum is a love letter to the Indigenous people of Canada and a humble bow to Indigenous cultures around the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCastle Quay Books
    Release dateSep 12, 2016
    ISBN9781927355657
    The Honour Drum: Sharing the Beauty of Canada’s Indigenous People with Children, Families and Classrooms
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    Tim J Huff

    Tim has dedicated his adult life to full-time charitable work, serving, learning and teaching across North America and internationally. Throughout his career, he has combined his passion for visual arts, writing and music with his commitment to social justice and compassion-focused initiatives. He is an acclaimed speaker, a best-selling author and award-winning author-illustrator of children’s books. His book titles, of which seven have either been nominated for or won national awards, include: Bent Hope: a Street Journal, Dancing with Dynamite: Celebrating Against the Odds (which won Best Canadian Book of the Year award in 2011), The Yuletide Factor: Cause for Perpetual Comfort and Joy, and his previous illustrated children’s books, The Cardboard Shack Beneath the Bridge: Helping Children Understand Homelessness, It’s Hard Not to Stare: Helping Children Understand Disabilities, The Honour Drum: Sharing the Beauty of Canada’s Indigenous People with Children, Families and Classrooms, Am I Safe: Exploring Fear and Anxiety with Children, Make Way for the Christmas Hush , and The Jellybean Kid-A Tender Family-friendly Story About a Young Boy’s Difficult Health Journey, all published by Castle Quay Books.

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      The Honour Drum - Tim J Huff

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      The Honour Drum: Sharing the Beauty of Canada’s Indigenous People with Children, Families and Classrooms

      Copyright ©2016 Tim Huff and Cheryl Bear

      All rights reserved

      Printed in Canada

      International Standard Book Number 978-1-927355-64-0 soft cover

      ISBN 978-1-927355-65-7 EPUB

      Published by:

      Castle Quay Books

      Lagoon City (Brechin), Ontario

      Tel: (416) 573-3249

      E-mail: [email protected] www.castlequaybooks.com

      Edited by Marina Hofman Willard

      Cover design and inside layout by Burst Impressions

      Printed at Essence Printing, Belleville, Ontario

      All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form without prior written permission of the publishers.

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Bear, Cheryl, author

      The honour drum : sharing the beauty of Canada’s indigenous

      people with children, families and classrooms / written by Cheryl Bear

      and Tim Huff ; parent and teacher discussion guide by Cheryl Bear

      ; illustrated by Tim Huff ; forewords by Ray Aldred and Steve Bell.

      (Compassion series)

      ISBN 978-1-927355-64-0 (paperback)

      1. Native peoples--Canada--Juvenile literature. I. Huff, Tim,

      1964-, author, illustrator II. Title.

      E78.C2B43 2016 j971.004’97 C2016-904539-0

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      Foreword by Ray Aldred

      Dear reader,

      The drum is the place where all of our relatives gather. This book seeks to honour the relationships that make up our lives. The rhythm of the drum and rhythm of this book help draw out the dance that is within all of creation. The authors of this book have done a marvellous job of helping lead a community to find and affirm the dance that lies at the heart of each person, the dance that Creator has put into all things.

      The children keep the old people alive because they bring healing, just as the south wind brings healing in the spring. This book provides a resource to facilitate those conversations between young and old, between creation and Creator. These conversations nurture the stuff of life that lies at the heart of every child, every human being—so that every person on Turtle Island will be able to stand on the earth and hear it welcome them back, so that we might understand what it means to be a human being. This book helps to build those relationships with the earth and with each other.

      Wisdom is like a river that flows from Creator. Understanding comes when we enter this river that has flown through the land and our ancestors. The task of learning the dances and stories of this land helps us find the wisdom stored up in all of creation. The authors of this book have provided a way forward on the journey through the land that is our life toward the wisdom that will lie at the end.

      All my relatives.

      *****

      Ray Aldred is Cree from Treaty 8 and is also related to the Métis. He is director of the Indigenous Studies Program

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