Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for KidsEdited by award winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In a high school gym full of color and song, people dance, sell beadwork and books, and celebrate friendship

This is one of the most accomplished and emotionally engaging debuts I have read

Drouillard

Two dodges her unsettling

she went from being a social worker in Minneapolis to leading the struggle for the restoration of the Menominees' tribal status and trust lands

These voices affirm that authentic relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples – with their attendant anxieties

Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him

The stories they passed to new generations and outsiders reveal the fundamental philosophy of Blackfeet existence namely

Sawyer has a plan

where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past

In this spiritual

Laura Waterman Wittstock (Seneca Nation)

This playful story by Brenda Child is accompanied by a companion retelling in Ojibwe by Gordon Jourdain and brought to life by Jonathan Thunder's vibrant dreamscapes