Tapenum’s Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times by Kate Waters, photographs by Russ Kendall is written in the first person from the perspective of a young Wampanoag boy, Tapenum, living in the time…Continue Reading
Nov 242018
Tag: Native Americans
Nov 202018
As a true book, The Wampanoag doesn’t pull punches about violence and pestilence that swept through the areas of Massachusetts and Rhode Island with the arrival of Europeans to American shores. In fact, the first…Continue Reading
Nov 172018
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian is featuring an engrossing online exhibit called The Americans. It opens with two statements and a question: “Indians are less than 1% of the population. Yet images…Continue Reading
Nov 162018
Squanto’s Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac and illustrated by Greg Shed tells the incredible tale of the life of Tisquantum (Squanto). He was born and raised to be a leader…Continue Reading