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Medicine Wheel Publishing is excited to offer you a sneak peek into some of our upcoming titles, as well as some of our new releases. Follow the links below to order your own copy, and discover our feature pages, where we have curated for you some exclusive details about the book, the author, and what others are saying.
Every Child Matters
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Every Child Matters is an introduction to the Residential School System and its purpose. Written for a younger audience by the author and founder of Orange Shirt Day, Phyllis takes us through her feelings as a survivor of a system designed to oppress Indigenous people and their culture, teachings and practices still survive today. It’s a reminder for Survivors, their families and the children who didn’t make it home that they matter.
Minnow:
The Girl Who Became Part Fish
A young Indigenous water protector named Minnow goes on an underwater journey; learning from our ocean-living relatives. When she returns to the surface, she gathers her community to help make a change.
This story is told in lyrical rhyme and helps children gain a better respect for Indigenous water and land protectors, the environment and world around them, and helps show children activism at an early age.
Storyteller Skye:
Teachings from My Ojibway Grandfather
Storyteller Skye is a collection of five short stories starring different animals and the lessons that shaped them into the creatures we see today. Skye teaches us the importance of consequence, coming together as a community and the power in storytelling.
About Medicine Wheel Publishing
Who We Are
Medicine Wheel Publishing creates award winning, culturally authentic Indigenous books, resources and tools specialized for moral and cultural education. Each book teaches a positive moral message designed to invite all children, youth and adults to engage and participate in culture with authenticity and respect.
Medicine Wheel Publishing is the publisher of many Indigenous authors as well as being the official publisher of Orange Shirt Day written by the Orange Shirt Society. Medicine Wheel Publishing has books in thousands of locations across Canada and the United States. In all of Medicine Wheel Publishing’s books, every word and image has the explicit approval of the Indigenous storytellers and Elders connected to the story.
As of 2023, Medicine Wheel Publishing has over 40 books published and is distributed and represented by Publishers Group Canada for Canadian sales and Publishers Group West in the United States.
Medicine Wheel Publishing has been featured on CBC books, referenced in the House of Commons and appeared on national television. Medicine Wheel Publishing was founded by Teddy Anderson (Yeíl S’aghi) who is multicultural and an adopted member of the Carcross Tagish First Nations of the Tlingit Community. Teddy is also a board member of Books BC.
Our Logo
Through a relationship-based publishing program, Medicine Wheel Publishing offers a process that is culturally sound and authentic. Not only does this process protect cultural stories and authors, it offers our community of Indigenous authors a way to publish their oral stories without compromising themselves. This relationship is present in the Medicine Wheel Publishing logo, designed by the talented, Ojibway artist, Joshua Hunt.
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The sacred symbol of the Medicine Wheel represents unity and balance between the fours that exist in our world. The four seasons, the four elements, the four directions, the four peoples, the four types of education, etc. The goal of Medicine Wheel Publishing is to bring about greater understanding between people, especially in regards to Reconciliation.
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Every feather of an eagle represents a sacred teaching. Every book published is a teaching being passed onto the reader.
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The eagle wrapping our community and our logo is a symbol of the 7th sacred teaching – love. Each of the other six sacred teachings are needed in order to love. Medicine Wheel Publishing strives every day to achieve this goal – to be loving.
Medicine Wheel Publishing Elders’ and Educators’ Council
As of 2022, Medicine Wheel Publishing is supported by an Indigenous Elders’ and Educators’ Council made up of knowledgeable members of the Indigenous community who advise our cultural practices and help us to walk in a good way. Each offering their own expertise that helps guide our process and system to ensure authenticity and quality.
Medicine wheel Publishing acknowledges that we live and work on the unceded traditional territory of the Coast Salish People including the Scia’new people, the lək̓ʷəŋən people and the T’Sou-ke people.
Our Authors
Medicine Wheel Publishing partners with a range of talented Indigenous authors and storytellers.
Phyllis Webstad
Cultural Connections: Secwépemc and Irish/French
Home Base: Williams Lake, BC
Willie Poll
Cultural Connections: Métis (Métis Nation of Ontario)
Home Base: Prince Edward Island
Lindsay Christina King
Cultural Connections: Ojibway
Home Base: Pikangikum First Nation, ON
Karen Whetung
Cultural Connections: Anishinaabe, mixed European ancestry
Home Base: Victoria, BC
Ren Louie
Cultural Connections: Nuu-chah-nulth, African-American, and Ukranian
Home Base: Lekwungen and WSÁNEĆ Territory, Victoria, BC
Carrie, Kelly and River Armstrong
Cultural Connections: Métis
Home Base: Edmonton, AB
David Bouchard
Cultural Connections: Ojibway, Métis
Home Base: Victoria, BC
Theresa “Corky” Larsen-Jonasson
Cultural Connections: Cree, Danish, Métis
Home Base: Red Deer, AB
Kevin Locke
Cultural Connections: Lakota and Anishinabe
Home Base: Wakapala, South Dakota
Kung Jaadee
Cultural Connections: Haida
Home Base: Vancouver, BC
Trudy Spiller
Cultural Connections: Gitxsan Nation
Home Base: Victoria, BC
Juliana Armstrong
Cultural Connections: Ojibway
Home Base: Nipissing First Nation, ON
Teddy Anderson
Cultural Connections: Adopted Tlingit by Elder Annie Auston. Persian, English, Scottish and Norwegian.
Home Base: Victoria BC
Giving Back
Medicine Wheel Publishing believes that all things in life are interrelated in one sacred circle — one world, one people, one planet and one community. The teaching is profound, yet simple. What goes into your circle will come back to you. That’s why, since its inception, Medicine Wheel Publishing has strived to always give back in a meaningful way that completes that circle.
Medicine Wheel Publishing has donated over 15,000 books to Indigenous schools and communities as well as offering over $300,000 in donations or discounts to Indigenous communities, teachers, social workers, and more.
Medicine Wheel Publishing has donated over $25,000 to non-profits including the following:
The Orange Shirt Society
“The Orange Shirt Society creates awareness of the individual, family and community inter-generational impacts of Indian Residential Schools.”
Indian Residential School Survivor Society
“The Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) is a provincial organization that provides essential services to residential school survivors and families experiencing intergenerational trauma. We have been supporting Indigenous people since 1994.”
ArtsCan Circle
“ArtsCan Circle opens pathways where youth not just collaborate with artists but have access to instruments and creative tools as well so that youth can ultimately share their stories through a multitude of creative expressions.”
Why Publish with Medicine Wheel Publishing
Medicine Wheel Publishing offers Indigenous storytellers a welcoming and safe space to share their life stories, cultural teachings and truths while accessing expertise in the publishing world. With a relationship-based publishing program that empowers authors with creative control, we ensure cultural authenticity and respect for all.
If you have a book idea you’d like to share, please see our “submit a script” section.
Phyllis Webstad
“I am so glad I met Teddy and his publishing company. Other publishers didn’t know how to work with me, but Teddy knew right away how to get the story from my brain and heart onto the paper. I strongly recommend his company, he and his staff are growing into a larger company and are able to help and be there for many more truth-tellers. Kukstemcw Teddy Anderson for publishing my story!”
Kevin Locke
“Having done several projects with Medicine Wheel, I highly recommend their professionalism and products. They go to great lengths to ensure that the narratives are authentically Indigenous and transcend tribal/cultural specific themes to accentuate universal human values. Readers of every background around the globe will identify with and find deep meaning in their materials. The books also contain stimulating study questions to help the readers identify take-away themes and ideas. Each book has excellent, inspirational illustrations that breathe the spirit of color and added vitality, and propel each storyline. These books fill a vital role in helping young readers to connect with our collective heritage as part of one world.”
Kung Jaadee
“Mr. Anderson was always considerate of me, and my feelings towards everything in the creation of my book, Raven’s Feast. Mr. Anderson has listened carefully to all of my suggestions for changes in the text and the illustrations for my story. I have been treated with utmost respect and dignity. I have been treated like an equal partner for every decision; every edit, regardless of how minor has been discussed, often at length. Mr. Anderson has called me on several occasions to ensure complete clarity on both our parts. He’s approachable and open to all suggestions. He’s flexible and willing to be there, to hold my hand, as it were, as I have never published a book before. I am most grateful to him and to his team in the completion of my book. It’s beautiful! I am proud to bring it to my children and to my grandchildren as well; to enjoy for years to come.”
Our Distribution & Representation
Medicine Wheel Publishing is proudly represented by Publishers Group Canada and distributed by Raincoast Books for Canadian sales. For U.S. sales, we are proudly represented and distributed by Publishers Group West by Ingram Content Group.
If you are a retailer who is interested in ordering some of our authentic Indigenous-authored books, please see below for more information on who you can contact.
Canadian Distribution
Customer Service and Book Orders
Raincoast Books
2440 Viking Way, Richmond, BC • V6V 1N2
Monday to Friday: 7:00 am to 4:30 pm PST
1-800-663-5714 • Fax: 1-800-565-3770
customerservice@raincoast.com
Canadian Representation
Mailing Address
Raincoast Books
Publishers Group Canada
201-128A Sterling Road, Toronto, ON • M6R 2B7
416-934-9900 • Toll Free: 1-800-747-8147 • Fax: 416-934-1410
info@pgcbooks.ca
Sales Representatives
ONTARIO & QUEBEC
Michael Martin
Martin & Associates Sales Agency
594 Windermere Avenue, Toronto, ON • M6S 3l8
416-460-7115 • Fax: 647-372-5308
michael@martinsalesagency.ca
Heather Roberts
Martin & Associates Sales Agency
#3-12 High Park Ave, Toronto, ON • M6P 2R9
226-700-9157
heather@martinsalesagency.ca
LIBRARIES & ATLANTIC CANADA
Margot Stokreef
594 Windermere Avenue, Toronto, ON • M6S 3l8
416-697-5620 • Fax: 647-372-5308
margot@martinsalesagency.ca
BRITISH COLUMBIA, ALBERTA & THE TERRITORIES
Heather Read
Read and Co Books
c/o Bridget Clark
760 Menawood Place, Victoria, BC • V8Y 2Z6
250-532-3976 • Fax: 250-984-7631
readandcobooks@gmail.com
Bridget Clark
Read and Co Books
760 Menawood Place, Victoria, BC • V8Y 2Z6
778-772-1276 • Fax: 250-984-7631
bridget@readandcobooks.ca
SASKATCHEWAN, MANITOBA & NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO
Rorie Bruce
737 Montrose Street, Winnipeg, MB • R3M 3M5
204-781-1769 • Fax: 204-487-3993
rorbruce@mymts.net
Mailing Address
Raincoast Books
Publishers Group Canada
201-128A Sterling Road
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M6R 2B7
Phone: 416-934-9900
Toll Free: 1-800-747-8147
Fax: 416-934-1410
Email: info@pgcbooks.ca
U.S. Distribution & Representation
INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES & HIGHER EDUCATION ACCOUNTS
Tel: 866-400-5351
Fax: 800-838-1149
Email: ips@ingramcontent.com
IPS SAN: 6318630
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
Please contact your PGW sales rep or customer service.
Tel: 800-343-4499
Email: IPSJacksonOrders@ingramcontent.com
GIFTS & SPECIAL SALES INQUIRIES
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