“Four kids in T-shirts and jeans jam on a powwow stage. They’re grinning, bouncing, fully engaged with their music, each other, and the relaxed crowd. I’m splitting fry bread with a cousin as we cheer on the band, and across the tent, a young girl reading a paperback catches my eye. In that moment, I wish for more characters like those kids in the pages of children’s books. This anthology is a fulfillment of that wish.” Middle GradeMiddle SchoolAnthologyChildrens BooksIndigenous PeoplesChildrens LiteratureNative American LiteratureIndigenous LiteraturePowwow Book:Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids Source: Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
“Orvil mainly listens to powwow music. There's something in the energy of that big booming drum, in the intensity of the singing, like an urgency that feels specifically Indian. He likes the power the sound of a chorus of voices makes too, those high-pitched wailed harmonies, how you can't tell how many singers there are, and how sometimes it sounds like ten singers, sometimes like a hundred.” IndianNative AmericanIndian MusicPowwow Book:There There Source: There There