Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing nations their authorship is perhaps most

their authorship is perhaps most properly attributed to the tribal storytellers who have carried on the oral tradition which Basil Johnston records and preserves in this book

is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of South Florida

" —The Horn Book

our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family's history together through the stories told to her by her mother

tribal rules

Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous Culture-Based Approaches to Waking Up, Taking Action, and Doing the Work of Healing nations their authorship is perhaps mostAn unflinching reimagining of Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing for young adults. Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individuals brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior the ways people adapt to trauma to survive are passed down within