Kohkom's First Drum

Kohkom's First DrumWhen Charlie's Kohkom asks him what the best part of his school day was, he knows right away: Indigenous drum circle! Kohkom tells him that not very long ago she was gifted her very first drum at a ceremony for children who never returned home from residential schools. But Charlie doesn't understand. How could she only have gotten her first drum so recently? Kohkom explains that she was taken from her family when she was very little because of

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provincial and corporate activities intersected to criminalize and regulate Indigenous reproduction

the old ways of her grandmother

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Lushly illustrated by Tongva artist Katie Dorame

were often conducted with students and instructors seated together in a circle

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The data are drawn from cultures as diverse as the Ojibway