Waa'aka': The Bird Who Fell in Love with the Sun Shoshone when Lissa learned that a

when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker

This story is a fictionalized account of the Great Fire of 1918 based on a 1973 interview of Elizabeth (Betty) Gurno

highlighting creative Dakhóta responses to violences of the settler colonial state

has walked around all the Great Lakes from the four salt waters

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Waa'aka': The Bird Who Fell in Love with the Sun Shoshone when Lissa learned that aWaaaka was born when the earth was soft and the waters were new. It was the beginning of time. So begins Cindi Alvitres vivid and multifaceted telling of a traditional Tongva creation story from Southern California. Waaaka follows the title character, a beautiful bird who falls in love with Tamet, the sun, and tries to follow him up to the sky. Accompanied by richly colorful illustrations from Carly Lake, the book touches deftly on themes like the