When the Shadbush Blooms Diné (Navajo) This powerful and informative collection

This powerful and informative collection also offers accessible primers on important Indigenous issues

troops built Fort Snelling on the bluff above the rivers

perhaps most dramatically with the arrival of Europeans into Minnesota territory

executive director of education and international affairs

When the Shadbush Blooms Diné (Navajo) This powerful and informative collectionA young Lenape Indian girl observes and reflects on the small, important ways her family today, and her ancestors generations before, celebrate the cycle of seasons. Today when a Lenape Indian girl ventures to the stream to fish for shad, she knows that another girl did the same generations before her. Through the cycle of the seasons, what is important has remained: being with family, knowing when berries are ripe for picking, listening to stories in