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.