You Hold Me Up

You Hold Me UpThis vibrant picture book, beautifully illustrated by celebrated artist encourages children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other's well being in their everyday actions. Consultant, international speaker and award winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote You Hold Me Up to prompt a dialogue among young people, their care providers and educators about reconciliation and the importance of the connections children make with

and goading him into a destructive

Having learned to cook in her grandmother’s kitchen

a blood cult

Ann Patchett

or simply cause mischief

Pauliina Feodoroff

with Ojibwe names

nearing the end of his life

simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent

"migration" through procreation

are in the service of trying to find new ways to think about the past

he shows how such seemingly harmless (even if unconscious) expectations contribute to the racism and injustice that still haunt the experience of many Native American people today