What Your Ribbon Skirt Means to Me: Deb Haaland's Historic Inauguration

What Your Ribbon Skirt Means to Me: Deb Haaland's Historic InaugurationA contemporary Indigenous picture book that offers both an homage to Secretary Deb Haaland's achievements, and a celebration of urban Indigenous community through the eyes of a little girl. Pia rushes over to the Indigenous community center after school. Its where she goes every day to play outside with friends and work on her homework. But todayMarch 18, 2021is special: Auntie Autumn gathers all the children around their television to witness

originally of Ketchikan

and power from tribes across the North American continent

She was an expert weaver of large Anishinaabeg cedar bark mats with complicated geometric designs

along with essays from Neil Gaiman

or gashkibidaaganag—the large

something inside her clicks

overeagerness to punish Indians

Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories

Their adult daughter

for those who do everything they can to stand with dignity despite the insults

Bouncing in the middle of two cultures

the power of dreams