Tom McLeod is an 11-year-old boy from Aklavik who often tells stories on CBC North Radio. He is of mixed cultural heritage--Gwich'in and Inuvialuit. In The Delta is My Home, Tom tells us about how the Mackenzie Delta floods in the spring, how to make a bannock, and about "ratting" (trapping muskrats) and hunting black ducks. Join Tom at Canada's largest river delta and find out more about Aklavic and the people there who "never say die."

Readers will learn why these ducks are decreasing in number and how and why they are important to Tom and his people. Tom says, Northerners have always hunted animals for survival. We are careful about how we use the land. To be good hunters we need to pay attention to what is happening on the land around us-that's why it's important for us to be out there. We are the first to know if the land and animals are changing.