Cherokee is Dennis Sixkiller’s first spoken language, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that he learned to read and write ...

Rumford's (Nine Animals and the Well) economical yet lyrically told picture-book biography begins as the unseen narrator's father explains how California's Giant ...

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While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors ...