THE RAINBOW, THE MIDWIFE & THE BIRDS

BY RAYMOND YAKELEYA
ART BY RICH THEROUX, SAMANTHA GIBBON, ANTOINE MOUNTAIN

Multimedia animated film, videogame, app, gallery!

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Release date, March 21, 2023

Media: Quill & Quire | CKUA Radio | Edmonton Journal
Finalist: Canadian Online Awards, Winner announced in February 2024.

This book contains four Dene First Nation stories, as experienced by Raymond Yakeleya. “Flight Through the Rainbow” is about flying in a small plane through a rainbow, and tells a legend of how spiders catch drops of colour in their webs. “The Midwife” is a story told to Raymond by his Granny Harriet about bringing the spirit of babies into the world. “The Slingshot and the Songbird” is about a boy’s contrition over killing a friendly songbird. “The Medicine Brothers,” told to Raymond by his uncle George Blondin, is about giant birds when the world was new. This book also a suite of multimedia art projects: a film, a videogame, a phone app, audiobook, and art gallery.

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