Aboriginal Peoples

Anyone living on reserve lands within the GVPL service area is eligible for full service at no charge. This applies to the following bands: Beecher Bay, Esquimalt, Songhees, Tsartlip (South Saanich Indian Reserve) and Tsawout (East Saanich Indian Reserve).

First Nations Communities Read

First Nation Communities Read is an annual reading program that encourages family literacy, storytelling, and information sharing. The program highlights books written and/or illustrated by a First Nation, Métis, or Inuit creator; or that contains First Nation, Métis, or Inuit content.

The 2012-2013 selection:

Shannen and the Dream for a School   written by Janet Wilson, and published by Second Story Press.

Shannen and the Dream for a School is the true account of Shannen Koostachin, the people of Attawapiskat, and an ongoing fight for a new school.

For more information and to see a listing of titles from previous years, please visit First Nation Communities Read.

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First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast

Staff Picks in Our Catalogue

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Aboriginal Artists on the web

20th Century

Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe)
Bill Reid (Haida)
Mungo Martin (Kwakwaka’wakw)
Charles Edenshaw (Haida)
Willie Seaweed (Kwakwaka’wakw)
Pitseolak Ashoona (Inuit)
Gerald Tailfeathers (Blood)