and valuing

including Indigenous governance

or protecting Native graves

and thousands of others lost their possessions and homelands in an orgy of fraud

and advocates of the local food and slow food movements

Dancing with Our Ancestors Plains Cree and valuingIn this tender picture book, Sara Florence Davidson transports readers to the excitement of a potlatch in Hydaburg, Alaska her last memory of dancing with her late brother. It feels like my brother and I have always known how to sing the songs and dance the dances of our Haida ancestors. Unlike our father, we were born after the laws that banned our cultural practices were changed. The potlatch ban did not exist during our time, so we grew up dancing