Mindy Willett is a mother, an educator, and a passionate advocate for all things northern. This is the eighth book in The Land is Our Storybook series she has coauthored with storytellers from the official language groups of the Northwest Territories. Growing up among the pines of the Canadian Shield in Atikokan, Ontario, helped her feel at home in the NWT. She lives in Yellowknife, NWT with her husband and two children.