The Gift of the Little People (eBook)

A Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Ithiniwak Story

William Dumas (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
48 Seiten
Portage & Main Press (Verlag)
978-1-55379-993-1 (ISBN)

Infos

I don't recall seeing books when I was a little boy. But the old people, they grew up listening to stories. And so, every night, when the old people were done their evening prayers, they would sit and they would tell us stories too.At the time of the spring thaw, the Rocky Cree fill their canoes with furs, eager to trade with the new visitors in mistiwsahak (Hudson Bay). But not all of the new visitors are welcome.When the canoes return home to the shores of the misinip river, the Rocky Cree begin to collapse one by one, drenched in sweat and slowly slipping into delirium. Kkakiw struggles to help the sick as more and more people pass into the spirit world. Exhausted physically, emotionally, and spiritually, he seeks guidance through prayer.Hope finally comes with a visitor in the night: one of the Little People, small beings who are just like us. If Kkakiw can journey to their home, he will be given the medicine his people need. All he has to do is paddle through a cliff of solid bedrock to get there.To save his people from certain death, Kkakiw must overcome doubt to follow the traditional teachings of the Asiniskaw thiniwak and trust in the gift of the Little People.In this illustrated short story for all ages, celebrated Rocky Cree storyteller William Dumas shares a teaching about hope in the face of adversity. This book is a companion story to The Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw thiniwak series.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2022
• Reihe/Serie: The Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Ithiniwak
• Illustrationen: Rhian Brynjolson
• Zusatzinfo: full colour illustrations throughout
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Kinderbücher bis 11 Jahre
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Körper / Sexualität
• Schlagworte: Aboriginal • Asiniskow Ithiniwak • before Canada • books for adults • books for kids • Community • Contact • cree book • Healing • Health • Illness • Indigenous author • indigenous childrens book • Indigenous perspectives • Legend • Little people • magic realism • Medicine Man • Medicines • Myth • Native American • Pandemic • Pre-Confederation • pre-contact • Rocky Cree • sickness • Traditional teaching
• ISBN-10: 1-55379-993-3 / 1553799933
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55379-993-1 / 9781553799931