Smile So Big (FNCR 2024) Christmas Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe is a

Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe is a Coast Salish author of Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk from the Nooksack and Upper Skagit Indian tribes

This book honours the ancestors and Elders who are keepers of traditional knowledge

esteemed authors Theda Perdue

Garth Harmsworth (Landcare Research

Restored are the recently discovered missing pages from the original text of this groundbreaking and significant work

Smile So Big (FNCR 2024) Christmas Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe is aWritten by Sunshine Quem Tenasco who is Anishinabe of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Quebec and illustrated by Chief Lady Bird, Chippewa and Potawatomi of Rama First Nation and Moose Deer Point First Nation. When Challa comes home in tears after being teased about her smile, her mom gives her a special gift. Its a magic mirror shiny, beaded and beautiful passed on from her mom, and from her djo djo before her. Challas mom tells her that when anyone looks