Little Bear in Foster Care / Mkoons iiyaad Naagidwendgamaik Truth and Reconciliation Despite these hardships

Despite these hardships

the author adds personal notes and illustrations

When it is cooked the friends take the soup to their friend

From Wardship to Rights

Totem Poles and Railroads is Janet’s fifth poetry collection developed during her term as UNBC’s 2015/2016 Writer in Residence and OCAD’s NIGIG Visiting Artist Residency in 2016

Little Bear in Foster Care / Mkoons iiyaad Naagidwendgamaik Truth and Reconciliation Despite these hardshipsAlgonquin author S. P. Joseph Lyons, from Kitigan Zibi First Nation, was placed in foster care as a young child and is a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Foster Care can be scary and lonely. Through S. P. Joseph Lyons experiences, the Little Bear in Foster Care book makes foster care a little less frightening. Little Bear in Foster Care connects children to a range of emotions, encourages them to find their voice, and lets them know they are not alone