Five Little Indians (FNCR 2021) Stereotypes Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene

Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History reconstructs important moments in Dene history

Exploring the challenges of incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing

Writing in the form of a trickster tale

Barry Ace is an Anishnaabe (Odawa) visual artist

Five Little Indians (FNCR 2021) Stereotypes Drum Songs: Glimpses of DeneFive Little Indians is written by Michelle Good of Cree ancestry and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan and whose mother and grandmother were residential school survivors. In Five Little Indians, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church run residential school. They are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.