Wandering Stars fantasy The tribal elders are keepers

The tribal elders are keepers of knowledge and never stop teaching

Author Deidre Havrelock's and illustrator Aphelandra's The Heartbeat Drum is an uplifting picture book biography of a Cree activist and musician who founded an Indigenous hand drumming group

With the influx of Euro-Americans onto these lands

tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees

Deer draws on her extensive experiences in advocacy and activism to present specific

Wandering Stars fantasy The tribal elders are keepers"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