the book introduces children to 12 traditional Navajo foods made with corn and teaches them their names in the Navajo language

The language of the scientists that Erdrich sometimes quotes in epigraphs seems reductive in comparison to the richness of tone and meaning that these poems— filled with puns

the future of Earth will very much reflect the stories that Homo sapiens decides to jettison or accept today into our collective identity

has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye

Westerman draws on both English and the Dakota language to celebrate the long journey along sunflower-lined highways of the tallgrass prairies of the Great Plains that returns her to a place filled with “more than history

Life's Journey—Zuya: Oral Teachings from Rosebud memoir the book introduces children toOur people are very lucky to be here, says Albert White Hat Sr. He has lived through a time when Indians were sent to boarding schools and were not permitted to practice their own rituals. Although the Lakota people can practice their beliefs openly once again, things have changed and old ways have been forgotten. As a teacher at Sinte Gleska University in South Dakota, White Hat seeks to preserve the link the Lakota people have with their past. In