River Run

by Brandon Mitchell, Tara Audibert (Illustrator)

River Run is a smoking prevention comic book from the Canadian organisation The Healthy Aboriginal Network. It is about a brother and sister who go to a camp that is teaching traditional aboriginal values and customs. Though the sister smokes tobacco when she is alone, she tries to hide her habit and insists that her brother is too young to try it. The camp staff explains the aboriginal tradition of using tobacco and how it differs from personal addiction to tobacco. It is designated as culturally appropriate by The Healthy Aboriginal Network.

40 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2010

About the author

From Listuguj, Quebec, Brandon Mitchell is the founder of Birch Bark Comics and creator of the Sacred Circles comic series, which draws on his Mi’kmaq heritage. He has written five books with the Healthy Aboriginal Network, (Lost Innocence, Drawing Hope, River Run, Making it Right, and Emily’s Choice). Brandon has written and illustrated Jean-Paul’s Daring Adventure: Stories from Old Mobile for the University of Alabama, as well as two Mi'qmaq language-based stories for the Listuguj Education Directorate. He has also completed an art installation for Heritage and Culture New Brunswick. Brandon currently resides in Fredericton, New Brunswick.