How the Birds Got Their Songs Tulalip and histories that are unique

and histories that are unique to the Tlingit community

Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists

Given up for adoption as an infant

Absentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home

Waakaa'igan lets us hear the "winds of flutes" even as she writes from "concrete plains" of prison

How the Birds Got Their Songs Tulalip and histories that are uniqueThe Great Spirit challenges all the birds to a contest, and the gift of birdsong is born! This traditional story, told in both English and Ojibwe, explains bird behavior and where humans should go to hear the prettiest of birdsongs. When Mother Earth was very young and the Great Spirit had created all the beings, he noticed how quiet everything was. As he walked about the earth, listening to the sounds of the animals and the wind and the waters, some