The Season 3 premiere of Stories of the North will hit screens this weekend.
The children’s program, on CityTV, follows a Grandpa as he teaches his granddaughters how to speak their language through story.
The grandpa is played by Morris Cook of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band. His granddaughters are played by Claire Walker and Mya Hoskins-Fiddler.
The third season of the series will feature ten episodes touching on traditions such as the six seasons, medicines, and how the beaver got its tail.
The show features a cast and crew that is Indigenous and promoted to Indigenous storytelling.
Producer Harmony Johnson-Harder, told MBC Radio News, she never saw Indigenous representation on Canadian children’s shows.
“The children will know if they see themselves on TV. The children will know if those stories are relevant,” she said. “The children will get excited, if they’re able to relate to what Mooshum was telling his granddaughters or if their granddaughters are are saying things that are are similar to their own personal experiences.”
Season 3 has already received an award; a Golden Sheaf at the Yorkton Film Festival for Children and Youth Programming.
A fourth season of Stories of the North has also been renewed at CityTV and will go into production this August.
(TOP PHOTO: Actors Morris Cook, Claire Walker, and Mya Hoskins-Fiddler pose for a set photo. Photo provided)