Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life Lakota Lyrically and lovingly written

Lyrically and lovingly written

mainstream portrayals of Indigenous life

lushly imagined prose

He is an OjiCree broadcaster with Wawatay Native Communications Society in Sioux Lookout

Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy—though you wouldn’t guess it by his name: his father is part white and part Lakota

Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life Lakota Lyrically and lovingly writtenLife is a circle, just like the seasons, from youth through old age. The circle of the year brings seasonal rituals: a winter of preparation followed by a summer of powwows. Sharyl and Windy Downwind and their children travel from their home on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to powwows all around the region. For the past year, their oldest daughter, Shian, has been honored as junior princess for Bug o nay ge shig School. At the Leech Lake