This land is a lullaby / cistomâwasowin ôma askiy

key selling points

• written as a lullaby for the author’s daughter, this book is an exploration of the spiritual relationship between children, ancestors and the land.
• lyrical language evokes the sights and sounds of a summer storm on a prairie evening and conveys a powerful message of reconciliation and reclamation, as ancestors dance and sing a song to a child, who drifts into a peaceful sleep.
• author and indigenous anthropologist tonya simpson is scottish and cree and a member of the pasqua first nation. this is her second book following forever our home.
• artist delreé dumont, from onion lake cree nation, evokes the movement of the land through stunning pointillism illustrations.
• also available in an english-only edition.