I Am Not a Costume

I Am Not a CostumeI am not a costume. Ayasha's school is having a costume party and she is so excited! But when Ayasha arrives at school and sees other students wearing fake regalia, she is confused and upset. She doesn't understand why they think her culture is a costume. Ayasha turns to her family and together they come up with a way to teach her classmates about her culture and how to honor her people respectfully.

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But catching their attention when they all get together feels impossible

as a Christian convert who was also a preacher

” —American Historical Review

From the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers

" in which Maxine Bullhead

and Gregory Cajete in conversation with science fiction theorists like Darko Suvin

Native people manage to survive

who left a marriage of indenture to a misogynistic southerner to find love and acceptance with a Norwegian logger

Chími Nu'am welcomes readers in with Calvosa Olson's politically attuned and irresistibly funny writing

-North American plants that can treat common ailments

such as the professionalization of Native arts scholarship