Red Bird Danced - Native American

Ending Native American Heritage Month (to some communities and in some states like Minnesota the Native Communities celebrate theirs on May with traditional powwow )

This book focuses on #mmiw 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣

A middle-grade, coming-of-age lyrical novel about a girl who has Dance in her heart. First ballet, then she discovers the fire of dancing her culture.

"Our community needs healing."

"Our community needs hope."

They need her to dance and heal them. The jingle dance is a form of dance at a powwow. It has a lot of metal cones or jingles attached to ribbons.

Dancing brings her joy, but she feels guilty because her Aunt is missing and not much the authorities do about it.

But she dances... dances... dances...

Her friend Thomas shares her grief and helps.

"TOGETHER, IN COMMUNITY WE SAY

I see each ancestor's

Light

Breathing

Life

Into

Our

Native hearts.

We

Will,

We

Must.... survive."

A two POVs verse novel about loss and healing. Don't miss this one. Includes extra pages at the end with relevant info. Release Day June 4th. By #dawnquigley Thank you @harpercollinsch @harpercollins for this copy @theshelfstuff

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