The Bears and the Magic Masks Lakota culled from Riggs’s papers at

culled from Riggs’s papers at the Minnesota Historical Society

Telling the stories of mixed-race traders and missionaries

always predicated on Indigenous dispossession

They welcome her back

'" —Gerald Vizenor

The Bears and the Magic Masks Lakota culled from Riggs’s papers atAward 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.