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Book Names: Rain Is Not My Indian Name

Rain Is Not My Indian Name: Readers Guide

Introduction

Cassidy Rain Berghoff didn’t know that the very night she decided to get a life would be the night her best friend would lose his.

It’s been six months since Galen died, and up until now, Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia’s Indian Camp in their mostly white Kansas community,

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Children’s Poems & MG Shorts

ANCESTOR APPROVED: INTERTRIBAL STORIES FOR KIDS, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith, cover by Nicole Niedhardt (Heartdrum, 2021).

A collection of intersecting stories set at a powwow that bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.

In a high school gym full of color and song, Native families from Nations within the borders of the U.S.

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