author of Braiding Sweetgrass

Others work from a very different direction

readers will learn about each tribe's history

and experience many of the difficulties Indigenous kids often face in the city

That is who I was born and how I have lived

Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel governance author of Braiding SweetgrassSanaaq is the intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the "qallunaat," the white people, in the mid nineteenth century. Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, and her daughter, Qumac, hunt seal, repair their kayak, and gather mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Theirs is a semi nomadic life on the edge of the ice where marriages are made and unmade, children are