It's Powwow Time!

It's Powwow Time!This lyrical and joyful picture book celebrates new experiences and community traditions when a young boy learns to dance at his first powwow. Bineshii is looking forward to his first powwow. He wakes up and travels with his mother to the community event. He eats bannock and drinks strawberry juice as he watches the dancers perform. And ever so slowly, Bineshii works his way from the edge of the circle watching the dancers to inside the circle itself,

and covers the most significant legal issues facing Indians and Indian tribes

Upon Her Shoulders is a collection of stories

Sarris creates a kaleidoscopic narrative about the forces that shaped his early years and his eventual work as a tribal leader

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symbolize the risk and urgency of this work for both Indigenous and settler educators

Greek constellations and astronomical objects of interest are included along with the D(L)akota constellations organized by the four seasons and north circumpolar stars

tying this knowledge with current scientific advances

and motifs of the bags

including the "chosen people" idea

In this warm and joyful picture book highly recommended by Debbie Reese

Little Big Bully begins with a question asked of a collective and troubled we - how did we come to this