Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings

Serpents and Other Spiritual BeingsSerpents and Other Spiritual Beings is the second book in a series by renowned Ojibwe storyteller Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, following on The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories (2019). Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings is a collection of traditional Ojibwe Anishinaabe stories transliterated directly from Murdoch's oral storytelling. Part history, legend, and mythology, these are stories of tradition, magic and transformation, morality

vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal

He consciously challenges the existing Eurocentric story lines of dysfunctional educative stories of Indigenous communities and perceived deficient individuals in education and generates ways to rethink the old discourses and story lines

and cultures of Indigenous people while reinforcing a belief that Native American societies were inevitably disappearing

What goes into the making of a tribal elder

police procedural

who arrived as a Presbyterian missionary in 1837

proliferated on these new reservations well into the twentieth century

Lucas Smoke learns the art of carving from his grandfather

which masterfully portrayed a Cree coming-of-age in rural Canada

from Dallas to Winnipeg

and has galvanized organizing and action

the Pilgrims would never have made it through their first winter