Mwâkwa Talks to the Loon. 2nd Edition (HC) Syilx He spends most of his

He spends most of his time wondering why he is not dead yet and trying to remember the traditional teachings of his Tóta and his childhood

They stand as a ghostly monument to the slaughter of the Plains bison to near extinction

Crowfoot's words

And what tragedy awaits them if they don't

Mwâkwa Talks to the Loon. 2nd Edition (HC) Syilx He spends most of hisDale Auger (19582008) was a Sakaw Cree artist and storyteller from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta. He was born in High Prairie, Alberta, near that provinces second largest body of water, Lesser Slave Lake. He attended the Alberta College of Art and the University of Calgary, obtaining a masters degree in education and a PhD in education. Mwkwa Talks to the Loon was named Aboriginal Childrens Book of the Year at the 2006 Anskohk