A professor-turned-historian, a mother-and-son duo, a former Alaska Native games athlete and coach, and the handler of a locally famous therapy dog were among more than a dozen Indigenous authors at ...
Indigenous and Native American Heritage Month reminds us of the importance of reading Native American children’s books to learn and celebrate the culture, contributions, history, and traditions of ...
Book Club might be a misnomer, because the NDN Girls Book Club involves more than talking about books. This upstart literary nonprofit — run by Native women under the age of 25 who are also juggling ...
Navajo poet and arts advocate Kinsale Drake started the NDN Girls Book Club last April out of a desire to develop a fun, safe space for her fellow bibliophiles to geek out over Native American ...
Soft watercolor smudges of vibrant red, turquoise, and yellow sprawl across the first pages of the children’s book Jingle Dancer, by Cynthia Leitich Smith. Head in hand, Smith’s young protagonist, ...