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including queer and two-spirit approaches to decolonization

But when they hear a classmate in trouble in the woods

The Blue Jay’s Dance takes the mundane routines of everyday life and renders them marvelous

displacement

The Naming of Aki Cherokee author of Bury My HeartThis retelling of a traditional story celebrates what First Human and First Wolf see, taste, hear, smell, and touch as they wander aki, the earth, to be the namers of things. The story begins: "In the time soon after the creation, Nimaamaa Aki, Mother Earth, was new and without names, so the Creator called upon First Human to walk upon aki, earth, and name all things." First Human sets off on a journey that will take him to every corner of aki and