WHEREAS is a masterful example of compositional resistance

the author depicts a more complex Black Elk than has previously been known: a world traveler who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn yet lived through the beginning of the atomic age

In Dwellings

and acquaintances and transcribed this oral history in terms that nineteenth-century whites could understand

albeit not those that contemporary whites envisioned for them

Native American Night Before Christmas environment WHEREAS is a masterful exampleAn innovative retelling of the classic Christmas tale, this full color book takes a whimsical look at what Christmas Eve might be like for a Native American family when Old Red Shirt (the Native American Santa Claus) comes a calling with his team of flying white buffalo to deliver fry bread, commodities and other goodies. Renowned Cherokee artist Jesse Hummingbird's inspired illustrations transform the author's playful adaptation into a fresh and