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  Q&A: Yahoo News (photo/courtesy) By Kaili Berg February 06, 2025 Rebecca Kunz recently became the first ever Cherokee artist to be awarded the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for her illustrations in Chooch Helped, a children’s book by Cherokee author Andrea L Rogers.   Chooch Helped  tells the story of a Cherokee girl who reluctantly introduces her younger brother to their family’s traditions.  Through her art, Kunz brings these traditions to life using a combination of watercolor, gouache, printmaking, collage, and digital illustration.  Kunz is a multimedia artist and the owner of Tree of Life Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work is deeply influenced by traditional Cherokee iconography and archetypal symbolism.  Native News Online spoke with Kunz about her journey and inspiration behind Choonc...

  👉Sasquatch Books Sasquatch Books publishes 30 titles per year in a variety of genres and have a Little Bigfoot children’s imprint. The editors say, “Sasquatch Books publishes books for and from the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and California is the nation’s premier regional press. Sasquatch Books’ publishing program is a veritable celebration of regionally written words. Undeterred by political or geographical borders, Sasquatch defines its region as the magnificent area that stretches from the Brooks Range to the Gulf of California and from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.” How to submit : Potential authors can submit a query, proposal, full manuscript, or a combination of all three.  See their submission guidelines   here .  Has submission windows . 👉 Heartdrum   Heartdrum   is an imprint of HarperCollins focusing on Indigenous stories that reflect Native people whose Nations are located within the borders of what’s now c...

At BAD BANANA Books: When we publish your book, we make two files: an ebook and a paperback; those files are uploaded into Amazon KDP.  Our authors set their price for each. We also get your book cover idea ready.    💁ADVICE A Practical Guide to Taking Your Book Global (Because Publishing Doesn't Stop at Your Borders) by Julie Trelstad | Bowker | Jan 7, 2025  Three decades in publishing have taught me this: international book distribution has transformed from a logistics nightmare into a digital opportunity. Today, we can reach readers from Australia to Zimbabwe through digital platforms, but the sheer number of options presents a new challenge. Let's break down exactly how to approach this strategically. Start with Digital The first step is getting your book into readers' hands – and increasingly, those hands are holding phones or e-readers. While physical books still hold their charm (my overflowing office shelves can attest to that), digital distrib...

  THIS IS BAD👆 👆THIS IS FANTASTIC👇               MOST TITLES ARE ON BOOKSHOP (and Amazon) “Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org and I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.”   👉Award-wining journalist John Christian Hopkins is a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe, a descendant of King Ninigret, patriarch of the tribe's last hereditary royal family of Rhode Island. Among his ancestors was Quadrequina, brother to Massasoit and the one that introduced popped corn to the Pilgrims at the First Thanksgiving. READ ALL HIS BOOKS!

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  Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards in all five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. The finalists were selected from a starting total of 1,917 books submitted by publishers this year: 473 in Fiction, 671 in Nonfiction, 299 in Poetry, 141 in Translated Literature, and 333 in Young People’s Literature. The winners in all categories will be revealed at the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 20, during which Barbara Kingsolver and W. Paul Coates will also be awarded lifetime achievement awards. Winners receive $10,000, a bronze medal, and a statue; Finalists receive $1,000 and a bronze medal. Winners and Finalists in the Translated Literature category will split the prize evenly between author and translator.     An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York Times ...

  PAULETTE IS A GENIUS - I MET HER IN CONNECTICUT   REPEAT SHOW.  Tiokasin speaks with Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis). Paulette is an Indigenous archaeologist with a focus on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere.  In her research, Paulette argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. She has created a database of hundreds of archaeology sites in both North and South America that date from 250,000 to 12,000 years before present, which challenges the Clovis First dogma of a post 12,000 year before present initial migrations to the Americas.  During her doctoral studies, she worked with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to carry out studies in the Great Plains on mammoth sites which contained evidence of human technology on the mammoth bone, thus showing that humans were present in Nebraska over 18,000 years ago.  Paulette has taught Anthropolog...

THE LOST JOURNALS OF SACAJEWEA Open Audio Article Player June 05, 2024 LISTEN   “In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby’s cry.” Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting ...

SciFri · Wilfred Buck Tells The Story Of Mista Muskwa   Star Knowledge Why do we accept as universal the teachings of constellations by their Greek names and stories? Indigenous peoples have their own stories and names for the star formations. These stories capture teachings about the land, medicines, animals and our relations. We don’t need to replace the Indigenous worldview. It’s just as valid. ...

  New poetry collection breaks free of limited Indigenous narratives At left the cover of the new book of poetry Teeth by Dallas Hunt (at right). Photo of Hunt by Conor McNally. Cover art by Michelle Sound and Dallas Hunt. By Odette Auger |  Windspeaker.com Dallas Hunt’s latest release is a book of poems exploring ideas of urban Indigeneity, decolonial theory and how First Nations find ways to create and continue to exist. Hunt, a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River) First Nation, said his new collection Teeth sets out “to challenge the expectations and stereotypes placed on Indigenous writers.” Writing has always called to Hunt, he said, and he was encouraged by teachers and his family.  While his childhood had its tumultuous moments, his kôhkom (grandmother) and mom “really had a knack of finding a way when things were parti...

  Wandering Stars , the new novel by Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma), weaves together the complex history of the Boarding School Era as witnessed by the ancestors to the characters in his best-selling debut novel, There, There .  The experiences make up a constellation of experiences that define the characters and inform how all of us understand modern Native existence as only Orange’s prose can. "No one knows how to express tenderness and yearning like Tommy Orange. With an all-seeing heart, he traces historical and contemporary cruelties, vagaries, salvations and solutions visited upon young Cheyenne people, who cope with the impossible. In them, Tommy finds the unnerving strength that results when a broken spirit mends itself, when a wandering star finds its place, when, in spite of everything, Native people manage to survive." —Louise Erdrich The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There delivers a mast...

 Spooky? Established, emerging Indigenous authors produce disturbing fiction for dark anthology Tension, horror and then terror are the elements of a good scary story, and Never Whistle at Night has it all in 26 tales that will keep readers turning the pages and listening for things that go bump in the dark.  Co-editor Shane Hawk talks with Windspeaker about the collection. Gatekeepers, says Shane Hawk, co-editor of the dark fiction anthology Never Whistle at Night , are one reason why Indigenous writers have only broken into the horror genre in the last decade or so. “I think it's a marketability thing where there’s been historically gatekeepers who have allowed who can be published,” said Hawk. “I think now more people are seeing that, ‘hey, Indigenous people can write genre as well’,” says Hawk, who calls San Diego home. He and co-editor Theodore G. Van Alst Jr. were in the position of gatekeepers in 2021 when they put out an open call for eme...