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Cleanse yourself and your space with sacred natural materials that are ethically harvested and hand-crafted. This premium kit features wild white sage (salvia apiana), which is hand harvested by selected indigenous companies and palo santo sticks harvested using practices that cultivate and recover the natural habitat. The ideal vessel for burning these sacred herbs is a sustainably harvested abalone shell. Display this beautiful shell in a cobra stand; hand-carved from a single piece of renewable mango wood. To complete the kit, a turkey feather has been collected to be used for wafting the cleansing smoke. These mindful items come together in a palownia wood box that is engraved with a feather plus a retail-ready box wrap.

Cleansing is a universal practice used to center and focus ourselves and to cleanse people, objects and spaces.

The general guidelines are as follows:
Place the material in a heat proof vessel. After igniting the material, allow it to gently burn, then fan out the flame. Use the smoke from the smouldering material to first waft around yourself. Next, spread it around the person, object or space being cleansed. Fully extinguish the flame when finished.

Additional Information

• Dimensions: 40 x 12 x 8 cm box
• Materials: Sage, Palo Santo, Abalone shell, turkey feather, cobra stand, Palownia wood box
• Sourcing Information from Nature's Expression:
  • Sage and Sweetgrass: Sage and sweetgrass are harvested by selected Indigenous companies that employ people in their community. These suppliers support their local communities and also respect their customs and traditions. This wild sage is harvested by individual pickers (there is no big cultivation nor farms involved). This ensures an ethical harvest which leaves enough plants to self-populate the following year. 
  • Abalone Shell: This abalone shell is ethically harvested. Abalone shells pass stringent importing regulations and scrutiny by the office of Fish and Wildlife in the US and the Conservation and Protection Branch of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada. All documentation must meet the requirements of both these governing bodies. Suppliers who don’t follow the environmental regulations have their goods confiscated.
  • Feather: For ethical sustainability, Nature's Expressions believes in using all parts of an animal. The turkeys themselves are processed for meat products, and they purchase the feathers to ensure they are not wasted.
  • Cobra Stand: Much of the raw materials used in the products from this supplier are grown and cultivated in the local communities they are made in. This provides additional employment in those areas. All products are cruelty-free.

Cleanse yourself and your space with sacred natural materials that are ethically harvested and hand-crafted. This premium kit features wild white sage (salvia apiana), which is hand-harvested by selected indigenous companies. The ideal vessel for burning these sacred herbs is a sustainably harvested abalone shell. Display this beautiful shell in a cobra stand; hand-carved from a single piece of renewable mango wood. To complete the kit, a turkey feather has been collected to be used for wafting the cleansing smoke. These mindful items come together in a palownia wood box that is engraved with a feather plus a retail-ready box wrap.

Cleansing is a universal practice used to center and focus ourselves and to cleanse people, objects and spaces.

The general guidelines are as follows:
Place the material in a heatproof vessel. After igniting the material, allow it to gently burn, then fan out the flame. Use the smoke from the smouldering material to first waft around yourself. Next, spread it around the person, object or space being cleansed. Fully extinguish the flame when finished.

Additional Information

• Dimensions: 40 x 12 x 8 cm box
• Materials: palownia wood box, white sage, abalone shell, turkey feather, mango wood cobra stand
• Sourcing Information from Nature's Expression:
  • Sage: This sage is harvested by selected Indigenous companies that employ people in their community. These suppliers support their local communities and also respect their customs and traditions. This wild sage is harvested by individual pickers (there is no big cultivation nor farms involved). This ensures an ethical harvest which leaves enough plants to self-populate the following year. 
  • Abalone Shell: This abalone shell is ethically harvested. Abalone shells pass stringent importing regulations and scrutiny by the office of Fish and Wildlife in the US and the Conservation and Protection Branch of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada. All documentation must meet the requirements of both these governing bodies. Suppliers who don’t follow the environmental regulations have their goods confiscated.
  • Feather: For ethical sustainability, Nature's Expressions believes in using all parts of an animal. The turkeys themselves are processed for meat products, and they purchase the feathers to ensure they are not wasted.
  • Cobra Stand: Much of the raw materials used in the products from this supplier are grown and cultivated in the local communities they are made in. This provides additional employment in those areas. All products are cruelty-free.

These six posters are perfect for teaching or reinforcing key reading strategies to support a structured literacy approach. Use them to teach or remind students to decode words by trying various strategies:

• Blend the Sounds
• Break It into Syllables
• Find the Root Word
• Find the Vowel
• Sound It Out
• Tap Each Letter

Students will love seeing familiar faces from the Cedar School Decodables series, written by Emma Metallic and illustrated by Natalie Laurin. The Decodable Reading Strategies Posters also pair perfectly with the Cedar School Decodables: Words of Encouragement Sticker Sheets.

Each poster is printed in Canada on heavy stock paper with a matte finish.

Additional Information
10” x 14” | 6 Posters | 978-1-77174-686-1 | Made in Canada

Encourage a love of reading with these adorable sticker sheets! Each sticker includes a short phrase that is decodable within the scope and sequence of the Cedar School Decodables series to inspire further reading practise and develop vocabulary.

The Words of Encouragement stickers can be used in a structured literacy approach to:

• Reinforce learned reading skills.
• Create a learning environment that introduces students to a variety of text.
• Make daily lessons fun and engaging for students.
• Encourage nervous readers to approach a challenging word or passage of text.
• Motivate readers to form positive reading habits.
• Celebrate readers’ successes and achievements.

With colourful artwork and cheerful messages, these stickers are the perfect choice for anyone wanting to celebrate the little ones in their lives. Childcare providers, nurses, and parents can encourage positive behaviour in a fun and meaningful way.

Young learners will love seeing familiar faces from the Cedar School Decodables series, written by Emma Metallic and illustrated by Natalie Laurin. The Words of Encouragement Sticker Sheets also pair perfectly with the Cedar School Decodables: Decodable Reading Strategies Posters.

Each package contains five identical sticker sheets with twenty-four unique designs.

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5” x 7” | 5 Sticker Sheets, 24 Stickers per Sheet | 978-1-77174-685-4 | Made in Canada

Versatile and designed to perform, this Cork Base Travel Mug features a high-quality food-grade 304 stainless steel interior, a double wall with BPA-free push-on lid, and a stylish cork base that prevents scratching on different surfaces.

This stylish travel mug, featuring Paul Windsor's Salmon Life Cycle (Feathers) design, is great for temperature retention. It can keep drinks both hot and cold for hours. Comes in a colour box with artist and product information.

Additional Information

• Colour: Dark Blue
• Keeps drinks hot for 4 hours or cold for 12 hours
• Handwash only with warm water
• Materials: Stainless steel, 201 outer with 304 inner BPA-free push-on plastic lid and cork based, FDA standard
• 20 oz

Versatile and designed to perform, this Cork Base Travel Mug features a high-quality food-grade 304 stainless steel interior, a double wall with BPA-free push-on lid, and a stylish cork base that prevents scratching on different surfaces.

This stylish travel mug, featuring Storm Angeconeb's Ojibwe Florals design, is great for temperature retention. It can keep drinks both hot and cold for hours. Comes in a colour box with artist and product information.

Additional Information

• Keeps drinks hot for 4 hours or cold for 12 hours
• Handwash only with warm water
• Materials: Stainless steel, 201 outer with 304 inner BPA-free push-on plastic lid and cork based, FDA standard
• 20 oz

Versatile and designed to perform, this Cork Base Travel Mug features a high-quality food-grade 304 stainless steel interior, a double wall with BPA-free push-on lid, and a stylish cork base that prevents scratching on different surfaces.

This stylish travel mug, featuring Maynard Johnny Jr.'s Urban Wolf design, is great for temperature retention. It can keep drinks both hot and cold for hours. Comes in a colour box with artist and product information.

Additional Information

• Keeps drinks hot for 4 hours or cold for 12 hours
• Handwash only with warm water
• Materials: Stainless steel, 201 outer with 304 inner BPA-free push-on plastic lid and cork based, FDA standard
• 20 oz

This CD includes 15 songs about the Salish Sea.

When listening or singing to this CD, think about the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project: a massive scientific undertaking to research why runs of Chinook, Coho and Steelhead have decreased to one-tenth of past peak levels over the past 20 years in the Salish Sea. The Project involves more than 150 scientists and technical staff from more than 40 federal and state agencies, First Nations, universities, industry and non-profit organizations from Canada and the United States. The coordination is being conducted by two non-profits: the Seattle-based Long Live The Kings and the Vancouver-based Pacific Salmon Foundation.

Find out more here: marinesurvivalproject.com

This card holder features the Remember design by Chipewyan Artist John Rombough.

As the two ancestors watch over the land, they pray for all the children – every child matters.

Additional Information

• Card holders are made from synthetic leather
• Measurements: 14.2 x 7.5 cm
• 4 card slots and a zipped compartment

This card holder features a Raven design by Tsimshian Artist Roy Henry Vickers.

"In our stories, Raven is trickster and creator. Black Raven is trickster and white Raven is creator. Raven is my Chiefly crest from the House of Walkus, Wuikinuxv, B.C. " - R.H. Vickers

Additional Information

• Card holders are made from synthetic leather
• Measurements: 14.2 x 7.5 cm
• 4 card slots and a zipped compartment

This card holder features a Medicine Wheel design.

Medicine Wheel, also known as Sacred Loop, symbolizes the Circle of Life.  As well known the circle represents perfection as well as infinite since the circle has no beginning or end. Interpretation of the Medicine Wheel differs from Nation to Nation.

Additional Information

• Card holders are made from synthetic leather
• Measurements: 14.2 x 7.5 cm
• 4 card slots and a zipped compartment

This card holder features a Hummingbird design by Kwakwaka’wakw Artist Francis Dick.

Hummingbirds are majestic and magical little creatures. They are spiritual guides that carry a blessing in each visit.

Additional Information

• Card holders are made from synthetic leather
• Measurements: 14.2 x 7.5 cm
• 4 card slots and a zipped compartment

With a couple twists, this luxuriously soft 100% bamboo scarf turns into a warm wrap or endlessly customizable infinity scarf.

This scarf features the Self Reflection design from Andrew Dexel (Nlakapamux Nation).

Additional Information

• Materials: 100% Bamboo Viscose
• Size: 27.5" x 70"

Canadians from coast to coast know the spicy, resinous fragrance of cedar, traditionally known as a calming & grounding plant.

Cedar is nature’s purifier and boasts a distinctly resinous fragrance. Leaves are cleaned from the stems and separated into small pieces to be used in many ways (for making tea, bathing and ceremony). It represents grounding, maturity, purification and balance. Elders suggest walking with cedar in your shoes to walk in a good way down your path and it was one of the first gifts of natural healing shared with settlers upon their arrival (its high vitamin C content was a great antidote for scurvy). It is the western direction of the medicine wheel.

Additional Information

• 100% natural soy wax
• 4 oz candle 

The comforting, haystack scent of sweetgrass walks us out into a fragrant meadow. This sweet aromatic essence is known to soothe & calm.

Sweetgrass is sometimes called the hair of Mother Earth and is considered a sacred gift. After the grass is harvested, it is carefully braided; the three sections representing mind, body, and spirit. By braiding it, we bring those aspects of our being together, care for and strengthen them. When we smudge with sweetgrass, we are taught that the smoke from that burning sweetgrass prepares us for prayer because the scent is pleasing to the Creator. It is the northern direction of the medicine wheel.

Additional Information

• 100% natural soy wax. No GMO.
• 4 oz candle 

Sage Scented Candle - 4 oz.

The pungent, herbal bouquet of sage brings us out onto the wide-open, windswept summer prairies. A spiritual cleansing plant used in smudging, sage represents youth and the warmth of the southern sun in the North American medicine wheel.

Sage is found abundantly in dry areas of North America and has an herbal, spicy scent. It is used in ceremony for smudging; as a means to cleanse negativity from ourselves and our spaces. Our ancestors also used different varieties of sage for medicinal purposes. It is the southern direction of the medicine wheel.

Contains: 

• 100% natural soy wax
• 4 ounces

Now it's easier than ever to get professional cookie decorating results! This set includes a 2.6" x 4" stainless steel cookie cutter and one food-grade stencil to fit the cutter along with a decorating instruction sheet. Stencils are cut on 10 mil food-grade plastic for durable repeat use.

Features Paul Windsor's Whale design.

Additional Information

• Cookie Cutter: 2.6" x 4" 
• Stencil: 5.5" x 5.5" (overall size) 

Now it's easier than ever to get professional cookie decorating results! This set includes a 2.6" x 4" stainless steel cookie cutter and one food-grade stencil to fit the cutter along with a decorating instruction sheet. Stencils are cut on 10 mil food-grade plastic for durable repeat use.

Feature's Francis Horne Sr.'s Sasquatch design.

Additional Information

• Cookie Cutter: 2.6" x 4" 
• Stencil: 5.5" x 5.5" (overall size) 

Beautiful coin purse featuring Musqueam, Coast Salish artist Leila Stogan's Salish Weaving Collection - Spirit of the Sky design.

Features

• Materials: 100% polyester fabric, polyester/cotton lining
• Dimensions: 5.5 inches x 3.5 inches
• Zippered closure

Beautiful coin purse featuring Musqueam, Coast Salish artist Leila Stogan's Salish Weaving Collection - Visions of Our Ancestors design.

Features

• Materials: 100% polyester fabric, polyester/cotton lining
• Dimensions: 5.5 inches x 3.5 inches
• Zippered closure

These coloured pencils feature an Eagle design from Haida artist T.J. Sgwaayaans Young.  Includes 12 duo coloured pencils (24 colours).

Features

• Set of 12 duo coloured pencils (24 colours)
• Cedar wood from sustainably managed forests.
• Packaged in clear box.

Les chansons du cycle de la vie/Recyclage CD ont été traduits en français par Sylvain Archambault, et réalisée par des étudiants de l'Ecole Porter Street à Vancouver, Ecole Aylmer/St Marks à Gatineau, au Québec, et de l'Ecole St Luc à Calgary.

Le musicien canadien et auteur-compositeur, Holly Arntzen, découvert à un âge précoce une passion pour la musique et du spectacle. Après des études de cor français classique en Tchécoslovaquie, elle tourna son attention à l'utilisation de ses talents vocaux incroyables au service de la sensibilisation du public à propos de l'environnement et de la nécessité pour nous tous de la protéger.


The songs from the Cycle of Life/Recycle CD have been translated into French by Sylvain Archambault, and performed by students from Ecole Porter Street in Vancouver, Ecole Aylmer/St Marks in Gatineau, Quebec, and Ecole St Luke in Calgary.

Canadian musician and songwriter, Holly Arntzen, discovered at an early age a passion for music and performing. After studying classical French horn in Czechoslovakia she turned her attention to using her incredible vocal talents in the service of raising public awareness about the environment and the need for all of us to protect it.

Les chansons de la mer Salish CD ont été traduits en français par Marie Payette chutes et enregistrées par 400 étudiants à l'Ecole Pauline Johnson à West Vancouver . Le CD a été lancé lors d'un concert triomphal avec Holly et la bande de rêve au Théâtre Centennial de North Vancouver. Tout le monde chantait "Continuer de chanter la mer des Salish !" Un soutien supplémentaire est venue de Canadian Parents for français.

The songs from the Salish Sea CD were translated into French by Marie Payette Falls and recorded by 400 students at Ecole Pauline Johnson in West Vancouver. The CD was launched at a triumphant concert with Holly and the Dream Band at the North Vancouver Centennial Theatre. Everyone was singing: “Continue de chanter la mer des Salish!” Additional support came from Canadian Parents for French.

Orcas, bears, salmon, snakes, bison, frogs, songbirds, turtles, cedar trees and many other organisms at risk inhabit these songs, which are performed by Holly and the Dream Band, along with 2800 students from nine schools in Victoria and Vancouver. Orca Baby was written in response to the question: How do you explain extinction to a baby?

Endangered Species points out that humans like to live in the same places as wildlife…which is why so many of them are at risk. Salmon Circle celebrates the ancient cycle of life that has sustained ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest for millennia. Landfill Blues is a raunchy anthem to recycling, reducing, refusing…and to the worms and wasps that do the dirty work of biological decomposition. Recycling a beverage container is an action within the power of a child that helps endangered species.

40 Million Salmon Can’t Be Wrong weaves together songs, stories, art images and science in an electrifying stage show that helps people understand how we can bring back our wild salmon to historical levels of abundance. Acclaimed singer/songwriters Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright, are joined onstage by the Wilds band (Shawn Soucy-drums, Brian Newcombe-bass, Bill Sample-keyboards, Andreas Schuld-guitar), renowned storyteller and artist Roy Henry Vickers and ocean ecologist Russ George.

The collapse of wild salmon runs is closely tied to the collapse of ocean plankton pastures. This was profoundly demonstrated by the eruption of Kastochi volcano in 2008, its dusting of the ocean pastures with mineral-rich volcanic ash, and the return of 40 million sockeye to the Fraser River in 2010.

Authenticity Note: Some, but limited, Indigenous contribution, such as from artist Roy Henry Vickers.