Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers

Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and StorytellersA rich trove of stories told by five generations of a Dakota family. Through five generations at Pejuhutazizi (the place where they dig the yellow medicine), Teresa Peterson's family members have listened to and told stories: stories of events, migrations, and relationships in Dakota history, and stories that carry Dakota culture through tales, legends, and myths. In the 1910s, Wabdika (Fred Pearsall) made notes on stories he heard from Dakota elders,

Complete with maps

bees and blueberries

24 Native storytellers were paired with 24 comic artists

as we know them

"It feels like being somewhere between South Dakota and 'there

In this volume

pull the reader into their worlds

arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined efforts to understand Indigenous politics while also hindering conversation around race itself

She's never met kids of other races

Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family

including his mother-in-law

this powerful autobiographical picture book teaches readers to use their big voice and that everyone deserves to be seen—and heard