The Cottonwood Sings

The Cottonwood SingsThe Cottonwood Sings is the delightful story of the lovely Hunku (First Woman), who was immortal and never aged. The animals and plants loved her, but Hunku was lonely. Every day she would go to the riverbank and cry herself to sleep. Beaver, who lived in the river, fell in love with the beautiful Hunku and begged the Great Spirit to turn him into a man. The Great Spirit agreed, and Beaver became Takahe (First Man), but the Great Spirit told him that

historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US's history of settler colonialism

In the pictures of the party

there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them

New York Times bestselling author of There There

tries to reunite Ever with his heritage through traditional gourd dances

author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants

Installation photos by Myrica von Haselberg

Mowana Lomaomvaya

in this riveting sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author

whose Anishinaabe name is Mezinaashiikwe

a vampire who wants to become a full-blood Indian at any cost