Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird

Brave Wolf and the ThunderbirdCreated with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Tales of the People is a series of children's books celebrating Native American culture with illustrations and stories by Indian artists and writers. In addition to the tales themselves, each book also offers four pages filled with information and photographs exploring various aspects of Native culture, including a glossary of words in different Indian languages.

" —Vandana Shiva

and tough choices made along the way

"Life sometimes is hard

and transformation

and an afterword by Cristina Eisenberg

compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul

To gather all these essential pieces

and perceptive

as a leader of the American Indian Movement

Windy can tell such stories herself-about her dog

including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land

herbs and tea