Grandmother Ptarmigan (BD) Orange Shirt Stories Home Is Where the Land

Home Is Where the Land Is: Mount Athabasca and the Mountain MétisPART 4: STORIES OF ETHICAL ALLYSHIP20

and a rare moment in which they openly talk about his memory—Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more

When Basil Johnston began teaching the Anishinaubae language

the story about “savage Indians” and “civilized Canadians” and the latter group’s superior claim to “develop” the lands and resources of Canada still circulates widely

Jacoby Ellsbury

Grandmother Ptarmigan (BD) Orange Shirt Stories Home Is Where the LandWritten by Qaunaq Mikkigak, an Elder, artist, and throat singer from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, and Joanne Schwartz. Illustrated by Qin Leng. It's bedtime for baby ptarmigan, but he will not go to sleep. So his grandmother decides to tell him a bedtime story that he will never forget. This book is a simple, nursery rhyme inspired rendition of a traditional Inuit origin tale.