Smith brings her personal perspective to the Native American experience and Indigenous connections to the land

to California

as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still touches the lives of many Native Americans

an Ojibwe Woodland artist

Troy Cochrane

Kahoʻolawe: The True Story of an Island and Her People activism Smith brings her personal perspectiveIn the middle of the great Pacific Ocean is a little island. Her name is Kanaloa Kaho'olawe. Discover the story of an island sacred to Native Hawaiians. Beginning with her birth in a volcanic eruption, Kaho'olawe thrives surrounded by animals on land and in the sea. When Polynesian voyagers arrive and begin to raise their families there, the island is happy. As the years pass, invasive goats devastate the ecosystem, and during World War II and the