I Sang You Down From The Stars

TASHA SPILLETT-SUMNER | Cree - Trinidadian MICHAELA GOADE | Tlingit - Haida

  • English

  • Indigenous creation stories, Indigenous culture and traditions, Afro-Indigenous family, pregnancy

  • Pre Kindergarten +

Drawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings I Sang You Down from the Stars is a tribute to the bond between mother and child.

The narrator gathers gifts for a medicine bundle in anticipation of her baby's birth; a fluffy white eagle plume, bunches of cedar and sage, a quilted star blanket, and a small stone from the river. When the baby arrives, the mother shares the bundle with her child and reveals the importance of each item inside. But when her family comes to meet the new arrival, she realizes the baby arrived with gifts of its own and that the baby is also a sacred bundle: a baby bundle.

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