You Hold Me Up : Tú Me Sostienes

You Hold Me Up : Tú Me SostienesDual language (English and Spanish) edition. Translated by Lawrence Schimel This vibrant picture book, beautifully illustrated by celebrated artist Danielle Daniel, encourages children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other's well being in their everyday actions. Consultant, international speaker and award winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote You Hold Me Up to prompt a dialogue among young people, their care providers

"Haunting and complex Red Rooms is the Native Rosetta Stone

This is a people who still live close to nature's rhythms

unselfish people

Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous spaces and places

Based on the life of co-author Jenny Kay Dupuis's grandmother

The editor

becoming the protectors of America's natural resources

where she was raised by her grandmother

Entries include staples of folk medicine such as echinacea and slippery elm as well as common kitchen herbs such as parsley

but others plotted escapes

carries the Anishinaabe way of life and way of seeing forward in the world

The destructiveness of colonialism brings a profound darkness to some of the poems in Raven's Echo