Grandmother Ptarmigan (BD) Mothers and its Elders

and its Elders

under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation

and adoption

and her own urban Native heritage and experiences to shed light on the Canadian government’s efforts to define Native identity through the years

Babah Kalluk is an Inuk artist

Grandmother Ptarmigan (BD) Mothers and its EldersWritten 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.