The Sockeye Mother
by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett David Huson)
Highwater Press, 2017
ISBN 978-1-55379-739-5
$23 (hc), 32 pp, ages 9+
highwaterpress.com
The author is from the Gitxsan Nation, a people whose traditional territory is located in the Northwest Interior of British Columbia. The Sockeye Mother describes the many connections between the sockeye salmon, the Skeena River valley ecosystem and the Gitxsan people.
Classroom Connections: This beautifully illustrated book includes traditional form line artwork, introduces some basic Gitxsan vocabulary, and details the life cycle of the sockeye salmon. Text features include word boxes, labels, a map and some background information about the Gitxsan culture. Accessible to fluent readers in the late primary and intermediate grades, this book is a rich source of information and fits well with the Social Studies and Science curriculums.
Review by Brenda Boreham.
This review is from Canadian Teacher Magazine’s Spring 2019 issue.
