Student Literature

We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet

 We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 16-year-old climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful new voice on the frontlines of a global youth-led movement By: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Published: September 5, 2017 Grade 11 and Grade 12

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WHEREAS: Poems

 WHEREAS: Poems WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? By: Layli Long Soldier Published: March 7, 2017 Grade 09, Grade 10, and High School

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Bone Light

 Bone Light Orlando White explores language from a Diné (Navajo) perspective. One idea that interests him, is the idea of the English language as a forgotten language By: Orlando White Published: February 15, 2009 Grade 09, Grade 10, and High School

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Trail of Lightning

 Trail of Lightning While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn By: Rebecca Roanhorse Published: June 26, 2018 Grade 09, Grade 10, and High School

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Bad Indian

 Bad Indian Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems By: Deborah A. Miranda Published: January 1, 2013 Grade 08 and High School

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