You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People

You Were Made for This World: Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young PeopleA joyful, proud and groundbreaking collection of letters and art for young people, You Were Made for This World brings together celebrated Indigenous voices from across Turtle Island. Every young person deserves the chance to feel like they belong, that they are recognized, that they matter. You Were Made for This World brings together forty Indigenous writers, artists, activists, athletes, scholars and thinkers with a joint purpose: to celebrate the

as Renda Dionne Madrigal puts it

Anang is two-spirit and nonbinary and doesn't know what others will think of them wearing a ribbon skirt

a front company fueled by vast resources of dark money (its name is an anagram of "coven

A fearless collection of stories that celebrate the humor

and the pictures are brutal

cultural identity

and the history of medicine

he faced the racist assimilationist philosophy “Kill the Indian

A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother's life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family's troubled history

"' The result is a rousing testament to the power of storytelling

the boy finds himself imagining what life was like two generations ago -- a life that appears to be both different from and similar to his life now

someone the child wishes could be there on the journey