The Bears and the Magic Masks Lakota Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor

'" —Gerald Vizenor

When the cousins reach a grove of sage plants

They welcome her back

culled from Riggs’s papers at the Minnesota Historical Society

The Bears and the Magic Masks Lakota Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate ProfessorAward 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.