Rez Kid

Rez KidA celebration of traditional ways of life and the power of sharing what we have. "Rez kid!" The girl ignores the taunt as she hurries to the back of the school bus. She just wants to get home to the reservation, where she can feel safe. One by one, she tells her mom, nhkom, moshum and aunty about what happened. And one by one they offer her advice on what to do. Each one has a different idea, but each idea is the same at heart: share something from

the ecological crisis

The purchase of these crafts by the general public turned students' work into commodities and schools into factories

The object in each picture is named in Cherokee

and it is central to many ceremonies

beautifully illustrated by original work from Anishinaabe artist Bridget George

“…[a] meditative

But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined

Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life

Mother Earth and Sister Meadowlark all join together to greet the dawn

In her fictional world

the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy

and with time