She dreamed about the jingle-dress dancers, stepping softly to the ground. She dreamed about the fancy ..
Introduction My name is Olemaun Pokiak–that’s OO-lee-mawn. Such a name probably sounds strange ..
Wild rice, which the Ojibway call mahnomin, has long been an important food for Native Americans in the Upper ..
For most social, political, and ceremonial functions, the Ojibwe had a very strict gendered division ..
Gumbo, in it’s basic form, arrived shortly after 1720, carried in the flavor memories of enslaved ..
Jared: I’m not saying they didn’t, dude. You just proved my point. Black people have the same ..
The bus smelled of mildew, machine oil, and sweat. As the suburban Atlanta sprawl disappeared behind ..
“April, I know you’re excited, but we have a whole week ahead of us before we visit Grammie. ..
‘Education is the key to the advancement of the Negro’ and ‘Be credit to your race,”’ Wash ..
After our examinations, we’re reunited with Fred and assigned to our new home. Expect it isn’t home. ..
Abdul loved to tell stories. He told one about the high-stepping kids who collected donations in boots. ..
A khimar is a flowing scarf that my mommy wears. Before she walks out the door each day, she wraps one around ..
My mom has her own personal arsenal of silence, and she wields it like the Force, bending me to her will. ..
Inspiring others to be peaceful and fair. A hope for the future with ideas to share. Little dreamers ..
That fall, Sylvia and her brother had to attend Hoover Elementary, better known as “the Mexican school,” ..
Blue is the hijab Mom likes to wear. It’s a scarf she uses to cover her hair. Gold is the dome ..
Mama Some days, like today and yesterday and probably tomorrow- all my missing gets jumbled up inside ..
Once upon a modern time a boy named Federico left to buy ingredients to make the perfict pico. “Cuidado!” ..
Children come to live in America from many different countries. And for many different reasons. Some ..
The people were always moving from place to place following the herds of buffalo. They had many horses ..
Coyote did not know that it was Christmas Eve. He only cared that his empty stomach was growling and that ..
The aged Indian woman and her granddaughter pulled the fish they had netted onto the shore. Back and forth ..
I like telling made up stories, Misaabe thinks. Can the real ones be just as good? So, the next day, ..
“What is a residential school?” Amik asks. “Residential schools were big schools in faraway ..
Johnny was in his snow fort when his tummy began to growl. He peeked at Grandma through the kitchen doorway. ..
