Kuekuatsheu Creates the World / Kuekuatsheu ka Ushitat Assinu (Mushuau dialect) Delaware and the permanence of culture

and the permanence of culture

This beautiful story highlights learning through observation

where she continues to create drawings

is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas

You’ll meet a whole cast of them in this book

Kuekuatsheu Creates the World / Kuekuatsheu ka Ushitat Assinu (Mushuau dialect) Delaware and the permanence of cultureBy Innu author Annie Picard, illustrated by Elizabeth Jancewicz, and translated by Penash Rich. 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 talea story of resilience, sacrifice, and friendshipis one that Annie Picard was often told as a child by her maternal grandmother while they lived in nutshimit (on the