She Holds Up the Stars

She Holds Up the StarsA young Indigenous girl searching for a sense of home finds strength and courage in her gifts, her deepening connection to the land, and her own cultural awakening in this moving coming of age story. The last thing that twelve year old Misko wants to do is to move away from the city to spend time on the rez with her grandmother. And yet she feels strangely compelled to go, drawn by a pull she feels in her dreams. Maybe she can finally find out what

The Good Berry Cookbook follows the Anishinaabeg through seasons and spaces to gather wild foods and contemplate connections among the people and their plant and animal relatives

A few short years later

Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism

on the outside

and economic development

poignant revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the "victors

she must navigate all this

good things can happen

by coming into deep relationship with our food

and even the wealthy stakeholders must come together

This work is highly adaptable to different pedagogical approaches and dialects

a downright foolish being