I came across this site, the Healthy Aboriginal Network,  and immediately ‘symbaloo’ed it for my own classroom use. The site offers comic books that have been created to cover many of the issues- social, personal, family, etc, that aboriginal youth face today.  The titles, listed below, can be ordered, but if you click on the comic book, it opens into a pdf that you can preview.  I believe that comic books are a great source of media to reach the students, in hopes of discussing these important issues.

Topics include:

Financial Literacy – The Game Plan

Dog bites – The Gift

Residential School – Lost Innocence   I am using this possibly in my final project.

Maternal Child Health – It Takes a Village

Sexual health – Kiss Me Deadly

Droppin’ the Flag  deals with gangs

Youth in care – Lighting up the Darkness  -recalling painful childhood lost memories

Living with FASD – Drawing Hope

Smoking prevention – River Run

Sports/Gang awareness – In Path of the Warrior

Just a Story – deals with Mental Health situations

Diabetes awareness – An Invited Threat

Level Up  – deals with dropping out/staying in school

On the Turn – deals with youth gambling