Homesick at the thought of staying with his grandparents for the summer, Lakota Eddie quickly adjusts to life on the reservation, embracing new experiences and bonding with his family.
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve is an award-winning author (whose accolades include the National Humanities Medal) and a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota) who was raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. She has published over 20 books on South Dakota history, indigenous American history, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction works for children. Her picture book The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood was named a Smithsonian magazine’s Best Children’s Books of 2011. Driving Hawk Sneve taught in the public school system for a number of years. She lives in South Dakota. Steph Littlebird is an Indigenous artist, writer, curator, and a member of Oregon’s Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Her work combines traditional aesthetics with contemporary materials and subject matter to forge connections between our collective past and imminent future. Littlebird received national recognition as curator of This IS Kalapuyan Land (2020) an exhibition at the Five Oaks Museum in Portland, which was featured by ArtNews and PBS NewsHour. She currently lives in Las Vegas, NV.
