Touch The Earth

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• Nelson Mini-Anthologies available from Nelson Publishing Company

Curriculum Materials Centre

• Touch the earth. [Novel set. Grade 8 reading level] / James Barry, Sharon --
  Siamon, Glen Huser [editors]. -- Scarborough : Nelson, 1993.
  128 p., : [8] p. of pl. -- (Nelson mini-anthologies)
  • RN 1-85995.
    Grade level: Jr.
• Aboriginal world view. Grades 6-12 [kit]. --- 1 ---
  12 books (various titles), 1 videocassette.
  • Grade level: Int - Sr.
    Contents: Aboriginal people : building for the future -- Exploring the
    options -- In the words of elders -- Indian givers -- Kisewatotatowin --
    The people shall continue -- Potlatch -- The sacred hoop -- The seven
    fires : an Ojibway prophecy -- Touch the earth -- We get our living like
    milk from the land -- Words of power.
    Contents: Videocassette: The vision of the sacred tree.

Related Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre

• Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen - After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
• The Heart of a Chief by Joseph Bruchac - An eleven-year-old Penacook Indian boy living on a reservation faces his father's alcoholism, a controversy surrounding plans for a casino on a tribal island, and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his school and nearby town.
• Across the Steel River by Ted Stenhouse - In a 1952 prairie town, two teenage boys discover an Indian war hero badly beaten and left for dead. When the local police turn a blind eye, they take it upon themselves to break the case
• Ring of Tall Trees by John Dowd - Dylan and his Native American friends call on ancient rituals and Raven the trickster for help in stopping a logging company from clearing the old-growth forest near Dylan's farm.
• Touch the Earth by James Barry - This collection of articles and poems illustrates the varied ways in which concerned world citizens are working to help the environment. Included are a table of contents and and eight-page photograph insert.

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