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Qanuq Pinngurnirmata (Inuktitut Version)

Inuit Stories of How Things Came to Be

by Rachel A. Qitsualik; Sean A. Tinsley
illustrated by Emily Fiegenschuh & Patricia Ann Lewis-MacDougall

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list price: $24.95
edition:Paperback
category: Children's Nonfiction
published: 2009
ISBN:9781926569000
publisher: Inhabit Media
imprint: Inhabit Media
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Two gifted northern writers, Rachel A. Qitsualik and Sean A. Tinsley, have collaborated to produce mesmerizing prose interpretations of Inuit creation stories. Readers will be drawn in by the humour, wisdom, and depth of these inspired tellings, which invite a contemporary audience to learn from and be moved by the complex spiritual metaphors of ancient Inuit knowledge. Illustrated in full colour.

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Rachel A. Qitsualik

Rachel A. Qitsualik

Rachel A. Qitsualik was born and raised in the traditional Inuit culture of the late 1950's. After working for some time as a language specialist and consultant, she found success as a writer. Together with her husband, Sean A. Tinsley, she has published many hundreds of articles on Inuit culture/folklore, much of which is used as educational content around the world. She has also contributed to books, including Ring of Ice, Our Story, America is Indian Country, and Canada in 2020.
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Emily Fiegenschuh

Emily Fiegenschuh

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Patricia Ann Lewis-MacDougall

Patricia Ann Lewis-MacDougall

PATRICIA ANN LEWIS-MACDOUGALL has been an illustrator for children's books and a storyboard artist for television animation for 15 years. She has boarded shows such as Little Bear and Franklin the Turtle as well as the upcoming Rob the Robot. She is the illustrator of Black Bear, Loon & Walleye: A Fable from the Northwoods. She lives in Stoney Creek, ON.
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Sean A. Tinsley

Sean A. Tinsley

Of Scottish-Mohawk ancestry, Sean A. Tinsley learned to write at Sheridan College in the Toronto area, earning a 1992 "Best Writer" award from the Alliance Communications Corporation. Together with his beloved wife, Rachel A. Qitsualik, he has published numerous articles on Inuit cultural lore and shamanism. In 2005, he managed to snag an award for his story "Green Angel," appearing in Volume XXI of Galaxy Press's Writers of the Future series.
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