We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know

Traci Sorell, Frane Lessac

eBook - 2021

Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victories in Native life, each with a powerful refrain: We are still here! An ideal nonfiction picture book for 7-10-year-old future activists and changemakers! An inspiring read by best-selling and award-winning Cherokee author Traci Sorell. Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: AssimilationAllotmentTerminationRelocationEconomic DevelopmentLa...nguage RevivalSovereign Resurgenceand moreBest-selling Cherokee author Traci Sorell has a Native rights... more