Waa'aka': The Bird Who Fell in Love with the Sun

Waa'aka': The Bird Who Fell in Love with the SunWaaaka was born when the earth was soft and the waters were new. It was the beginning of time. So begins Cindi Alvitres vivid and multifaceted telling of a traditional Tongva creation story from Southern California. Waaaka follows the title character, a beautiful bird who falls in love with Tamet, the sun, and tries to follow him up to the sky. Accompanied by richly colorful illustrations from Carly Lake, the book touches deftly on themes like the

beautiful cover art by Aza Erdrich

and cultural

As their spirits seek desperately to be reunited

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The collection invites readers of all ages and backgrounds to listen to

and their habitat prior to contact

through war and the insidious trauma of boarding schools

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All communities are teeming with energy

Monique discovers that a portion of an ancient and deformed skeleton had also been stolen from the neglected museum archives

This Native American mathematics can best be described by considering the nature of the concepts found in a variety of individual New World cultures

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