Description
Naomi McIlwraith is an educator, poet and essayist who works at the Indigenous People's Experience at Fort Edmonton Park. A Métis writer with a Cree, Anishinaabe, Scottish, English and French inheritance, Naomi gratefully uses her education to build a more peaceful world. She lives in amiskwacî-wâskahikan, Plains Cree for Beaver Hills House, also known as Edmonton, Alberta. Onedove is a Cree and Métis illustrator and designer whose work is inspired by classic illustration and animation from the fifties and sixties. Their art has appeared in galleries from Vancouver to New York and in picture books. They live with their family in Vancouver, British Columbia.
A gorgeous and powerful celebration of the meeting places where we find belonging and community. This poetic book begins: “Let's go to the Great Gathering Place. Come, I'll take you in my big red canoe.” Readers are led to a gathering spot along a river, where we'll meet and visit with people, talk about good things and bad, rejoice and celebrate. We'll speak to our ancestors. We'll build a fire and feast. We'll give thanks. And we'll pledge to always be gentle, always be generous, always be kind - and always love our friends and relatives. A moving tribute that honours Indigenous values and the meeting places that are special to each of us. Audience: Ages 4-8.