Forever Our Home / Kâkikê Kîkinaw

This gentle picture-book lullaby, in both Plains Cree and English, is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and the Plains and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories.

About the author

Tonya Simpson is of Scottish and Cree ancestry. She is a member of Pasqua First Nation and was born and raised in central Alberta. Tonya completed the MA program in anthropology at the University of Alberta and now works as a research assistant while raising her children at Pigeon Lake in Westerose, Alberta. Forever Our Home is her first picture book and was originally written as a lullaby for her son.

Product details

• Authors: Tonya Simpson
• Assisted by: Carla Joseph (Illustration), Okim& (Translation), Jean Okim&257;sis (Translation)
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Languages: Cree, English
• Age Recommendation: ages 3 to 5
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2023
• EAN: 9781459837584
• ISBN: 978-1-4598-3758-4
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 246 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Subject: Children's and young people's books