Creating Space: Indigenous Education Seven Grandfather Teachings Living by Stories: A Journey

Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory includes a number of classic stories set in the “mythological age” about the trickster/transformer

the Iroquois corn-washing basket

“My name is Grace

When the band members discovered this in 1970

Wren realizes that the same heartbreak she’s feeling is the same for too many families

Creating Space: Indigenous Education Seven Grandfather Teachings Living by Stories: A JourneyCreating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education is the memoir of distinguished Elder and educator Verna J. Kirkness. Her story of Indigenous education begins on the Fisher River First Nation community. As the first cross cultural consultant for the Manitoba Department of Education Curriculum Branch she made Cree and Ojibway the languages of instruction in several Manitoba schools. In the early 1970s she became the first Education Director for