For a Girl Becoming

For a Girl BecomingA baby girl is welcomed to the breathing world by generations of her family and set on the magnificent journey of becoming. As she grows, she is reminded of her connections to the natural world; to her family, her ancestors, her neighbors; to the source of all magic and sorrow and of her responsibility to uphold and honor those connections. With US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's transcendent verse and Pura Belpr Award winner Adriana Garcia's monumental

who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest

Raised among the Lemhi Shoshone

Determined to control their creative vision and maintain their cultural identity

one of the most important figures in Lakota and American history

she became particularly concerned

Two sisters have waited all spring and summer to pick berries with their ningiuq

felt like an outsider

the Ani-Giduwah

Round reveals how Native North Americans sparked a communications revolution in their adaptation and resistance to settlers' modes of speaking and writing

University of Illinois American Indian Studies and the Native American House

he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics

and mental well-being