Language dialects, teachings, stories, and laws vary from community to community in different nations across miskanâhk ministik (Turtle Island). Bush Cree teachings and words are included most predominantly in this publication because the knowledge holder who shared their teachings is sakâw îno (a Bush Cree person).

Included in this calendar are 14 stories:

• paktinâsiwin (protocol)
• blood memory
• kiskinohtahisowin and manaciwaskawêwin, feather teachings
• wâspison and wêpison, moss bag and swing for good child rearing
• ne wi yaw âtisowin / nehiyaw âtisowin, four bodies living skills
• earning the right to a mate and child
• mikiwahp teachings; women's lodge
• health and mental and emotional clutter
• miskinâhk ministik, turtle island
• connecting with the land and all our relations
• many winters
• code of life and the beauty ways
• mikisiw / kihêw (the eagle) and the family unit
• kawâpiskisit paskwâwimostosis iskwêw mena kâkîsimôw ospwâkan