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Charlene Bearhead

Charlene Bearhead (she/her/hers) is an educator and Indigenous education advocate living in Treaty 6 Territory in central Alberta. She was the first Education Lead for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the Education Coordinator for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Charlene was recently honoured with the Alumni Honours Award from the University of Alberta and currently serves as the Director of Reconciliation for Canadian Geographic. She is a mother and a grandmother who began writing stories to teach her own children as she raised them. Adaptations of these stories have now been published as the Siha Tooskin Knows series, which she co-wrote with her husband, Wilson.

Books by Charlene Bearhead

Resurgence

Engaging With Indigenous Narratives and Cultural Expressions In and Beyond the Classroom

edited by Katya Adamov Ferguson & Christine M'Lot
by (author) K.C. Adams, Sonya Ballantyne, Charlene Bearhead, Wilson Bearhead, Lisa Boivin, Rita Bouvier, Nicola I. Campbell, Sara Florence Davidson, Louise B. Halfe, Lucy Hemphill, Wanda John-Kehewin, Elizabeth LaPensée, Victoria McIntosh, Reanna Merasty, David A. Robertson, Russell Wallace & Christina Lavalley Ruddy

Siha Tooskin Knows the Catcher of Dreams

by (author) Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch

Siha Tooskin Knows Education Guide

by (author) Charlene Bearhead

Siha Tooskin Knows the Best Medicine

by (author) Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch

Siha Tooskin Knows the Strength of His Hair

by (author) Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch

Siha Tooskin Knows the Gifts of His People

by (author) Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch

Siha Tooskin Knows the Offering of Tobacco

by (author) Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch

Siha Tooskin Knows the Love of the Dance

by (author) Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch

Siha Tooskin Knows the Sacred Eagle Feather

by (author) Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch

Siha Tooskin Knows the Nature of Life

by (author) Charlene Bearhead & Wilson Bearhead
illustrated by Chloe Bluebird Mustooch