The Bears and the Magic Masks Lakota '" —Gerald Vizenor

'" —Gerald Vizenor

The most enduring feature of U

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor

Telling the stories of mixed-race traders and missionaries

always predicated on Indigenous dispossession

The Bears and the Magic Masks Lakota '" —Gerald VizenorAward winning storyteller and poet Joseph Dandurand captures the delightful relationship between bears and the Kwantlen people in his fourth book for children ages 6 8. For a long time, the Kwantlen and the bears have lived side by side. When the master carver falls into the river, the bears rescue him. In thanks, the master carver gives the bears animal masks. But the bears don't know that these masks are magical.