showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language
which received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist
Fracking is damaging their ancestral lands
before they were separated and sent to reservations
which also relates to food that was gathered including herring and whale
Eagle Drums Coast Salish showcases the thriving art andEagle Drums by Nasuraq Rainey Hopson, Inupiat, is the story of how Iupiaq people were given the gift of music, song, dance, community, and everlasting tradition. An origin story of the Iupiaq Messenger Feast, a Native Alaskan tradition. As his family prepares for winter, a young, skilled hunter must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knappingthe same mountain where his two older brothers died. When he reaches the mountaintop, he is