This is a repository of free open licensed online stories written by indigenous peoples in Canada. Inspired by, and utilizing, the open-licensed stories from Little Cree Books, this project aims to make the text, images, and audio of stories available in Indigenous languages as well as English, French, and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages of Canada.
The stories have permission to be shared and translated so that they are available to readers. They allow Indigenous students to read in their home language and translanguage with English or French and they also allow others to read and listen to these languages in story format. These stories are not co-opted from indigenous cultures. They have been written and developed specifically for sharing by indigenous authors.
When choosing to use Indigenous materials in classrooms it’s important to find resources that are created by authentic authors, have been granted permission to be shared, and are accessible to many readers. The stories on this website have been created as Open Educational Resources and shared under a creative commons license 4.0 which means they can be downloaded, shared, adapted, and modified for classroom use with attribution.
- Visit the Indigenous Stories website.
- You can choose to take a tour and it will walk you through the website (great for sharing with parents & students)
- Select the language you wish to listen to the narrator in.
- Organize stories by level.
- Choose a book to read.
- Toggle between languages.
We recommend visiting the FAQ page which helps unpack using credible Indigenous materials authentically
- How can we respectfully retell stories?
- What other examples of criteria to evaluate Indigenous resources?
- Select Narrator Language
- Select Story & Listen
- Toggle between languages
Additional Stories & Materials
Under the Indigenous Storybooks Resources, more stories can be found that have been sorted.
- General
- Many Nations
- Hul’q’umi’num’ (Cowichan)
- Interior Salish
- Métis
- Nēhiyaw (Cree)
- Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)
- Stó:lō
- Ts’msyen (Tsimshian)
- X̱aada / X̱aayda (Haida)
- xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)
Information was modified from The Indigenous Story Website.
