Carrie Cavender Schommer: Dakota Language Teacher

Carrie Cavender Schommer: Dakota Language TeacherCarrie Cavender Schommer grew up in a home where Dakota was spoken, but going to school where everyone spoke English kept her from sharing her love of her Indigenous language. As an adult, Schommer spent decades teaching Dakota language and culture at the University of Minnesota and in her home community. From her childhood to her achievements as an educator, explore the inspiring life of Schommer.

I am only the Chickadee

With a foreword by former poet laureate Joy Harjo

Scholars believed that the Anishinaabeg represented an anthropological "type" of Native society characterized by weak social structures and political institutions

and even more crucially

without running water or electricity

take a walk with me

While Solomon originally envisioned more than forty etchings

From the Introduction:

After being convicted of murder in 1991

Hubert becomes Super Indian and fights evil forces that bring danger to the Leaning Oak Reservation

along with all of the children who read this book

With whatever new pipeline plowing through traditional territory