How the Oceans Came to Be : A Traditional Lumbee Story Mi'kmaw This book presents conversations shared

This book presents conversations shared with nine Indigenous writers in what is now Canada: Tenille Campbell

Interspersed throughout the text are 40 poems that did not appear in Johnson's classic volume

Water is the first medicine

Robert Beaulieu

surrounded by the tantalizing laughter of aunties telling stories

How the Oceans Came to Be : A Traditional Lumbee Story Mi'kmaw This book presents conversations sharedWritten by Arvis Boughman, an enrolled member of the Lumbee of North Carolina and illustrated by Alfreda Beartrack Algeo, a storyteller, poet, artist and member of the Lower Brule Lakota Nations, Kul Wicasa Oyate, in Lower Brule, South Dakota where she grew up. In this delightful Lumbee story, clever Rabbit outsmarts a selfish Great Snapping Turtle. When Rabbit discovers many animals could not find water, he sets out to solve the mystery. What he