The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life

The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family's Fight to Save a River and a Way of LifeA moving multigenerational memoir of Indigenous resistance, environmental justice, and a Yurok family's fight to protect their legacy and the Klamath River. For the members of a Northern California tribe, salmon are the lifeblood of the people a vital source of food, income, and cultural identity. When a catastrophic fish kill devastates the river, Amy Bowers Cordalis is propelled into action, reigniting her family's 170 year battle against the U. S.

Written specifically for young adults

A rivalry sparks between the girls from the start at Uncle Bobby and Aunt Bonnie's wedding

Ancient and contemporary

" and rejecting medical

In this compelling middle-grade novel in verse

I cannot tell you why I loved this book

an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires

From best-selling Native American writer Joseph M

Rauna Kuokkanen

Ninguiq and the girls head out to pick berries

and geographical boundaries-varying in voice between first person or that of her elders or children-resulting in a collective appeal

Masters of Empire overturns our assumptions about colonial America