Five Little Indians

Five Little IndiansTaken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world

discusses this dishonorable and darker side of American history that is rarely studied

“Beth Dooley’s In Winter’s Kitchen is a reflection on the way that we become at home in the world

Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets

Until the Shell Shaker shows up

the accumulation of wealth is steeped in trauma

and a growing world consciousness

Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred

transmitted cultural knowledge

venturing out alone

President Lincoln ordered the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history

Malinda Maynor Lowery narrates the Lumbees' extraordinary story as never before

"This moving retelling of a heroic woman’s journey demonstrates that history lives through an intimate connection between two women beyond time’s borders