The First Christmas Tree: An Innu Tale dance Or when you need to

Or when you need to find that warrior spirit inside you

Kinew explores how each of these heroes embraced their most authentic selves (alongside gorgeous illustrations by Janine Gibbons)

not the warriors

Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good--but inaccurate--story promotes a benign narrative of progress

Gail Johnsen

The First Christmas Tree: An Innu Tale dance Or when you need toIt is very cold in the Far North. The Great Manitou knows that winter is the harshest season for the Innu, and he decides to find a way to make their winters a little brighter. He searches through the trees in the forest to find one who will bring joy, beauty and warmth to all. Could it be the larch, the tree that the Innu use to make sleds, bows or ointments? The birch, malleable and robust? Or the magnificent black spruce? "Do you want to become the