Jingle Dancer

Jingle DancerNew York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith's lyrical text is paired with the warm, evocative watercolors of Cornelius Van Wright and Ying Hwa Hu in this affirming story of a contemporary Native American girl who turns to her family and community. The cone shaped jingles sewn to Grandma Wolfe's dress sing tink, tink, tink, tink Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been shared over generations in her family and intertribal

balancing the male and the female spirit even as he tries to blend gay and Native identity

When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents

Historian Linda Clemmons examines the surviving letters from Robert and Sarah

heartwarming love letter to her family and friends on the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe reservation

These accounts

American and Native American contexts

Apache storytelling

to the fresh road with her beloved

But her attachment to Gil is filled with shadowy need and delicious ironies

These narrative

and English sources

Told in eloquent layers that blend Native stories and metaphor with social and spiritual journeys