Tag: Buffalo

  • Judith Silverthorne Autumn 2016 Readings & Presentations

    This autumn is a busy time with readings and other activities. I will be featuring my most recent books: You can catch me at the following locations during Saskatchewan Publishing Week: Yorkton, SK: Wednesday, September 14,  1:00 pm, Western Development Museum, Gazebo I’ll be there with Cheri Helstrom and Robert Clipperton Ogema, SK Thursday, September…

  • Lavallee & Silverthorne’s Honouring the Buffalo Nominated for Three SK Book Awards

    Honouring the Buffalo is nominated in three Saskatchewan Book Award categories! Children’s Literature Award (Ray Lavallee & Judith Silverthorne) Rasmussen, Rasmussen & Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award (Ray Lavallee) Regina Public Library Aboriginal Peoples’ Publishing Award (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing) The Saskatchewan Book Awards Nominee Announcement took place on Feb 12, 2016 at the Regina…

  • Honuring the Buffalo on Saskatchewan Bestseller List

    Honouring the Buffalo made the SaskBooks Bestsellers 2015 list, so it’s officially a “bestseller”! Wahoo! Thank you and congratulations to Ray Lavallee and Mike Keepness for being part of this awesome success.  

  • Honouring the Buffalo Award Presentation

    I accepted the Silver Moonbeam Children’s Book Award in the Environment category tonight in Traverse City, Michigan on behalf of myself, Ray Lavallee and Mike Keepness for our book, Honouring the Buffalo. What a phenomenal honour!

  • Next Stop Wanuskewin Heritage Park- June 21, 2015

    Join me at Wanuskewin Heritage Park on Aboriginal Day, June 21, 2015 I’ll be in the Gift Shop autographing Honouring the Buffalo. Come and chat!

  • Here I Come Winnipeg!

    Catch my reading in Winnipeg…. Thursday, May 28, 2015 1:30-2:30 pm Sir William Stephenson Library  765 Keewatin http://wpl.winnipeg.ca/libr…/contact/branches/sirwilliam.asp

  • Judith Silverthorne Reads at Edmonton Public Library, May 23, 2:30 pm

    Edmonton Public Library Presents….    Award-winning Children’s Author Reading by Judith Silverthorne Honouring the Buffalo: A Plains Cree Legend  Saturday, May 23, 2015, 2:30 pm  Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton  7 Sir Winston Churchill Square ♦ 780-496-7000 ♦ http://www.epl.ca  Everyone Welcome!

  • Author Signing at McNally Robinson

    Signing Honouring the Buffalo at McNally Robinson on May 16, 2015, 2-4:00 pm

  • Book Launch – Honouring the Buffalo: A Plains Cree Legend

    Book Launch – Honouring the Buffalo: A Plains Cree Legend

    “Mosóm, why do we honour the buffalo skull at our ceremonies?” the grandson asked his grandfather. They stood looking at a buffalo display in a museum. “The Buffalo were once great creatures that Our People relied on for survival,” the grandfather answered. “Why the buffalo?” asked the grandson. Grandfather invited his grandson to sit on…

  • “Honouring the Buffalo: A Plains Cree Legend”

    Released February 2015 48 pages, 11″ x 8.5″            $14.95 (softcover)         978-1-927756-33-1  An estimated thirty to fifty million bison once thundered across the Great Plains and much of North America. Honouring the Buffalo is the story of how the Buffalo gifted themselves so freely through the Creator to the Plains Cree people to help them survive.…