We are water protectors

Learn about the book We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom. Blog post includes three ideas for your social studies minilessons. #waterislife

These picture, middle grade, and YA books render real-life and fictional stories of adversity and adventure and celebrate a panoply of cultures.

For the first time in 83 years, a Native American illustrator has won a Caldecott Medal. Michaela Goade of Sitka, Alaska’s Raven/Frog Clan collected the %

“The river’s rhythm runs through my veins. Runs through my people’s veins.” My student unmutes herself in our video conference, identifying these two lines as her favorite in Carole Lindstrom…

The book We Are Water Protectors is a perfect book to read for Earth Day. In the story written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade is about indigenous led movements to safeguard the Earth's water. While reading this story or after the story asking questions to a child or children really can deepen their understanding of the importance of water. You can ask questions like: How is water used daily? Where does water come from? What can poison water? What can we do to save…

Art by --Christi Belcourt, Michif Metis http://christibelcourt.com/ ""Because we know the power that comes from water is life itself. The spirits of water exist in every rain drop, in the wombs of women, in the clouds, in the rivers, in every stream and puddle, in the veins of trees, in the vastness of oceans, in every rainbow, in the air we breath, in every tear we shed for joy or grief. We are literally water, living on a ball of water in a pulsating, breathing and alive universe."

Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Aslan and Kelly Tudor’s Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock is a non-fiction photo-essay published by EagleSpeaker Publishing. The “about” page tells us that the author, Aslan Tudor, was eight and nine years old during the period depicted in the book, and […]

It only takes one break and a massive release of the hydrocarbons to poison sacred waters for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe with toxicity.

No DAPL. Water is LIFE.