Book Description
for Kuekuatsheu Creates the World by Annie Picard and Elizabeth Jancewicz
From the Publisher
The story of how the world came to be on the turtle's back can be found in Indigenous cultures throughout North America/Turtle Island. It has many variations. This moving version of the tale--a story of resilience, sacrifice, and friendship--is one that Annie Picard was often told as a child by her maternal grandmother while they lived in nutshimit (on the land) in the Labrador/Quebec peninsula. Picard's lovely re-telling of this traditional Innu story of how little muskrat makes an enormous sacrifice to help the wolverine and his other friends rebuild the world after a great flood is brought vividly to life by Elizabeth Jancewicz's stunning illustrations. This book, a co-publication with Mamu Tshishkutamashutau Innu Education, features a Labrador dialect of Innu-aimun, spoken predominantly in the Sheshatshiu area.