My teaching career spanned 28 years (full-and part-time) with a variety of teaching positions which involved working with students from kindergarten to grade 12. About 4 years ago I took a leave-of-absence and became so busy that I never did return to work with the school district.

11 years in a rural, multi-grade school was a good basis for moving into the Special Services Department.

For many years my career followed the education path of classroom teacher, librarian, learning assistant teacher, itinerant teacher for the visually impaired/ vision-related learning problems, resource person for the mentally/physically handicapped, and resource person for computers in special education.

During my last 8 years with the school district, our special services department adopted a trans-disciplinary team approach to working with children with multiple learning and/or physical challenges. This gave me a chance to observe how all areas of child development interlace and to work with specialists in many areas of expertise.

While still working in the school system, I was asked to participate in a genealogy project for the Tahltan Tribal Council. This project was expanded to include helping individual Tahltans with re-instatement to the Indian Act through Bill C-31.

In 1991 my path altered when I was invited to evaluate the local native adult education program and to write a summary report. Since then 7 other reports of like nature have been added to my bookshelf - including 1 in-depth evaluation of a native-run school which was carried out with a colleague.

1992 brought me to self-publishing - I believed that I was the best person to publish my books. My first 3 books were designed to help teach children how to read. The next 2 books are cookbooks with a native-foods perspective. It has been a learning experience!

In 1994 my path veered again to working on projects involving education of native students when I rewrote Tahltan legends so that children could read them. What fun! The next project I worked on (1995) was doing in-depth research into Tahltan history and culture, then writing an electronic book from the research.

1994 marked another point on my path: The Saulteau Band at Moberly Lake, B.C. established Twin Sisters Publishing when I became the editor for their first two books, Going to Visit Kokum and Grandfather Bear. Reviews of both books can be found in the Canadian Book Review Annual (CBRA), 1995 edition where they received ratings as recommended and highly recommended respectively. Specific reference is made to the introduction to Grandfather Bear which was written by yours truly.

My published works: Tahltan Education Report, 1987 (co-authored with David Rattray,M.Ed., B.Sc.); On My Walk, Manny's Many Questons, Kelly's Garden, A Tahltan Cookbook, Vol.1: George & Grace Edzerza Family, A Tahltan Cookbook, Vol 2: More Than 88 Ways to Prepare Salmon and other favourite recipes, A Tahltan Cookbook, Vol 3: Campfire Cooking, A Community Tells Its Story: Cecil Lake, 1925-2000, and But I Cleaned My Room Last Year! A Guide to Cleaning a Bedroom - for Kids! (NEW).

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