A growing number of Indigenous artists and writers are bringing traditional Indigenous stories to life in books and graphic novels — pinning down oral stories that have shapeshifted over time.

William Dumas, a Rocky Cree Elder and former teacher of our host Rosanna Deerchild, collaborates with William Cariou, an English professor at the University of Manitoba. They lead the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak project, a team effort to transform traditional Rocky Cree stories into picture books - and even interactive apps - to preserve oral stories for new generations.

And Brandon Mitchell infuses his new picture book Giju's Gift with Mi'kmaw culture and stories of mischievous, hard-to-spot characters his mom told him about as a child.