{"id":128514,"date":"2022-11-25T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=128514"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T21:22:02","slug":"s-p-joseph-lyons-wins-indigenous-literature-award-for-little-bear-in-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/s-p-joseph-lyons-wins-indigenous-literature-award-for-little-bear-in-foster-care\/","title":{"rendered":"S.P. Joseph Lyons wins Indigenous literature award for &#8216;Little Bear in Foster Care&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">An Indigenous author from St. Mary\u2019s recently won the First Nation Communities READ's 2022-2023 PMC Indigenous Literature Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spjosephlyons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S.P. Joseph Lyons<\/a> said he used his own experience in the foster care system to inspire his book, <em>Little Bear in Foster Care<\/em>. Lyons, a survivor of the Sixties Scoop, wrote the book as a letter to his younger self as a child in the foster care system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The book is published through <a href=\"http:\/\/goodminds.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodminds,<\/a> located in Brantford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">David Anderson, who works at Goodminds as an educational consultant, says they are thrilled with the books success and proud of the 500+ authored books carried by Goodminds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">The First Nation Communities READ (FNCR) is a Ontario First Nation Public Library Community\u2019s initiative that aims to the reading movement.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>It was launched in 2003, with support from the Ontario Library Service, to promote a community-based approach to reading.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022-2023 awards were announced on\u00a0<span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 7 <\/span>during\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3665658-1&amp;h=344273638&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fresources.olservice.ca%2Ffnplw%2F&amp;a=First+Nation+Public+Library+Week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First Nation Public Library Week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.periodical.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Periodical Marketers of Canada<\/a> sponsors the award and each of the selected authors received $5,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the entire Compelling Conversation below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indigenous author from St. Mary\u2019s recently won the First Nation Communities READ&#8217;s 2022-2023 PMC Indigenous Literature Award. S.P. Joseph Lyons said he used his own experience in the foster care system to inspire his book, Little Bear in Foster Care. Lyons, a survivor of the Sixties Scoop, wrote the book as a letter to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":128532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221,16830],"tags":[15306,21061,2150,21065,21066,21062,21064,21063],"radio":[13053],"origine":[267,13048,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128514"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128888,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128514\/revisions\/128888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128514"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=128514"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=128514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}