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Hair is not just a decoration

My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom

January 5, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

My Powerful Hair is a lovely story. Granted, I was looking for a more factual and less poetic story abut the meaning and importance of what the title meant, but it turned out just fine. All that information is given as a young child talks about how growing her hair out and why it is short to start with, is important to not just her, but her family and culture of her people. The culture of this child and her people unfold onto the pages […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: Carole Lindstrom, family, Native American, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes, Steph Littlebird, United States - Native American

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:9 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: Carole Lindstrom, family, Native American, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Themes, Steph Littlebird, United States - Native American ·
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Finding Home

Yossel’s Journey by Kathryn Lasky

June 7, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Yossel’s Journey seems like, at first blush, that it will be a typical Jewish family immigrates to America. And while the characters of Kathryn Lasky’s latest picture book (due in September 2022), leave Russia due to the pogroms of the 1880s, and stop for a spell in New York where things are familiar (houses brush up against each other, you can smell the food your neighbors are cooking), they do not stay. They travel by wagon to the Southwest where they run a trading store, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: Emigration & Immigration, jewish, Johnson Yazzie, kathryn lasky, Native American, New Mexico, South West, Southwest, United States - Native American

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:276 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: Emigration & Immigration, jewish, Johnson Yazzie, kathryn lasky, Native American, New Mexico, South West, Southwest, United States - Native American ·
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A urgent rallying cry

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom

February 7, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

We Are Water Protectors will be another book that will get people talking about the situation presented. Perhaps it will not be as popular as others, but this book deals with Native American and environmental issues that are relative to the current environment we live in. While it is based on the Carole Lindstrom’s experiences growing up and the contemporary events of the peoples; it is a book that is for everyone. It shows what one group of people are trying to do. This is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Carole Lindstrom, Environment, Michaela Goade, Native American, Science & Nature, United States - Native American

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:71 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Carole Lindstrom, Environment, Michaela Goade, Native American, Science & Nature, United States - Native American ·
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