Saskatchewan Indigenous Storytelling Month 2025

with special guest Carol Rose GoldenEagle

Join us at the Moose Jaw Public Library as we celebrate Saskatchewan Indigenous Storytelling Month with special guest Carol Rose GoldenEagle.

For Indigenous people, storytelling is both a gift, and a very old custom, used to teach, entertain, and remember. Since 2004, the LSSAP (Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples Inc.) committee has coordinated Saskatchewan Indigenous Storytelling Month. Through the month of February, storytelling events are held by libraries and their partners in communities throughout Saskatchewan.

The goals of SIS Month are:

• To support and promote First Nations, Metis & Inuit oral storytelling traditions in Saskatchewan;

• To celebrate First Nations, Metis & Inuit history, language & culture;

• To promote cross-cultural relationships and understanding by promoting storytelling as an important foundational cultural activity;

• To facilitate and grow a living oral storytelling collection;

• To share the vision of the LSSAP Committee: LSSAP collaborates through partnerships to enrich communities by promoting and improving library services for Aboriginal peoples.

For more information on Saskatchewan Indigenous Storytelling Month please visit Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples Inc.

We invite you to join us on Wednesday, February 5 at 10:30 am in the Moose Jaw Public Library Theatre as we host Indigenous Storyteller, Carol Rose GoldenEagle.

Carol Rose GoldenEagle was appointed Saskatchewan’s Poet Laureate in 2021. She was named as a Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2022 for her years of cross-cultural work within the Arts & Culture community. Carol has several books on the market. Her 5th novel, Joe, will be released in 2025, as well as two of her children’s titles, Moss Guide and Mother Nature: My Favourite Artist.

She is an Author of award-winning novel Bearskin Diary, which was chosen as the National Aboriginal Literature Title for 2017. The French language translation of this novel, entitled Peau D’ours won a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2019.

Her latest novel, The Narrows of Fear (wapawikoscikanik), was the chosen winner for a 2021 Saskatchewan Book Award. Other titles, including Hiraeth, Essential Ingredients: A Poetry Collection, Bone Black and Stations of the Crossed have each been shortlisted for Saskatchewan Book Awards. Another collection of poetry, Singing to the Moon - Indigenous Poetry for Children, will be released by Medicine Wheel Publishing in 2025.

Carol is Cree and Dene with roots in Northern Saskatchewan.

This program is open to the public and all ages are welcome to attend.

Elementary schools are encouraged to attend. Please RSVP to gfisher@mjlibrary.ca

The Moose Jaw Public Library acknowledges our Community Partners who helped make this event possible:

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