bios of influential American Indians such as Sitting Bull

but even as Da' investigates these signifiers of measurement

Ross called for all Cherokees

Follow along as Ria shares her dance journey--from dreaming of her future to performing as a professional--accompanied by striking illustrations that depict it while bringing her graceful movements to life

By drawing on Indigenous perspectives on the land as kin

The Painted Drum - Large Print Tongva bios of influential American IndiansThis is the large print edition. While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined.