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Check out Jay's Fireside Chat! Joshua Stribbell, an Inuk from Keswick, Ontario, and Iqaluit, Nunavut, is a freelance author and storyteller with over five years of experience in the urban Inuit community. In this session, he shares his journey reconnecting with Inuit and Inuit Nunangat, focusing on Inuit history and colonial impacts in Canada. Students will explore how storytelling shapes identity, collaboratively map historical and geographical connections between themselves and Inuit, and deepen their understanding of Truth and Reconciliation while building links between northern and southern Inuit communities. Your gut instinct - whether it's doing what you want to do, or how you feel about people - your spirit is never wrong. Social Studies & History 90 The Three Sisters Booth Museum Join our Connected North team and Booth Museum staff for an engaging session on the Three Sisters through American Indian oral tradition and art. Students will explore the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois and Cherokee people's reliance on these key crops and the science behind them. The story will be discussed and acted out with guided movements, inspired by artwork. Led by Booth Museum educators, students will create their own illustrations of the Three Sisters while learning art principles. ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖅᑐᐊᕐᓂᖅ (Storytelling) Joshua Stribbell Meet with Jay Bird, the subject of the book "Hidden Under the Water". A member of the Bear Clan from Batchewana First Nation, the book shares Jay's journey of cultural and spiritual reconnection. Through ceremonies and teachings, Jay confronts his past and embraces his role in his people's heritage, exploring themes of identity, resilience, and the transformative power of reconnecting with one's ancestry. Hidden Under the Water: Seven Clouds Waiting for Thunder Days Jay Bird Jay Bird also offers Rocks and Pictographs - Ojibway Perspectives.

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