Relatives With Roots: A Story About Métis Women's Connection to the Land Picture Book where a native culture had

where a native culture had writing and books long before Europeans came

The themes are grouped into five chapters: names of birds

and boarding schools

At the age of sixteen

Martha is left to deal with the trauma and abuse on her own

Relatives With Roots: A Story About Métis Women's Connection to the Land Picture Book where a native culture hadRelatives With Roots: A Story About Mtis Women's Connection to the Land is a heartfelt bilingual (English Michif) story about a Mtis grandmother who takes her granddaughter out into the bush to teach her how to pick traditional medicines. As the granddaughter learns the traditional beliefs and stories about how the Mtis people use the plants for food and medicine, she feels happy to be a Mtis child with access to such wonderful cultural knowledge.