Babimose: The Wanderer

Babimose: The WandererSet against the backdrop of the French and Indian War in the 1750s, this book expands on the legend of Babimose. The legend was passed down as an oral history among Indigenous peoples until it was recorded by a traveling historian who was among the northern Wisconsin Ojibwe in the 1850s. The story recalls a gifted Anishinaabe boy who lived south of Gichigami, now known as Lake Superior, who independently traveled among Indigenous nations. The original

in the mid-nineteenth century

shortly after his death

And tonight

From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a moving adaptation by National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby

in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited

and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race

the more she uncovers about a string of missing indigenous women cases going back decades

the Western Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam)

and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery

Animals and humans alike turn their faces upwards and gaze as the sun makes its daily journey from horizon to horizon

and social importance

the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs