Being home.
Written by Traci Sorell.
Illustrated by Michaela Goade.
Kokila, 2024.
On a day filled with anticipation, a young Cherokee girl
bids farewell to her familiar city life and documents the changing landscape
through drawings as her family moves to their ancestral land and embraces their
new home.
From my article for World Kid Lit:
A joyous return to Home, through the point of a view of a
child. This book works against the stereotype of ‘Rez’ life as sub-standard and
lacking. It also is an antidote, a reversal, of the times First Nations
citizens were forcibly moved.
Traci Sorrell is a Cherokee Nation citizen who lives within
her tribe’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma. Michaela Goade is a member of
the Tlingit Nation and grew up in her ancestral homelands along the southeast
coast of Alaska.
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