Shards of Silence

Shards of SilenceIn his first YA novel, award winning author Brian Lee Young (Din) bridges the generational divide between a Navajo teen at an elite prep school and his great grandmother's experience at a federal boarding school for Indigenous students. The book is an eye opening call for community healing and a profound coming of age story. Even if it hurts to leave behind his friends and family in Navajo, New Mexico especially his great grandmother, Mildred Derrick

beautiful cover art by Aza Erdrich

botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things--from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen--provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass

just like other mommies love their children

is a story that is many generations long

This fully-updated fifth edition provides a Foreword by John Echohawk

Wanbli Mayasleca/Francis J

puberty rites

repair their kayak

and drug and alcohol addiction and the rising number of suicides are indicators that Native people need healing

As a non-Mohican

Anequs and her dragon may be coming of age

of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society