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The first blade of sweetgrass a Native American story

"In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Greenlaw, Suzanne (Author), Frey, Gabriel (Author)
Other Authors:	Baker, Nancy (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Thomaston, Maine : Tilbury House Publishers, [2021]
Subjects:	Abenaki Indians > Juvenile fiction. Indigenous peoples > America > Juvenile fiction. Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction. Grandparent and child > Juvenile fiction. Grasses > Juvenile fiction. Sweetgrass baskets > Juvenile fiction. Picture books.
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Summary:	"In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making"--
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN:	9780884487609 0884487601
Author Notes:	Suzanne Greenlaw (Orono, ME) is Maliseet and a citizen of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians. A PhD candidate in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, she works to restore Wabanaki stewardship practices across various land tenure systems throughout Maine. Gabriel Frey (Orono, ME) is Passamaquoddy and a citizen of Passamaquoddy at Sipayik. He is an award-winning basket maker, artist, and cultural knowledge keeper. His mother and Suzanne and Gabriel's two daughters, Musqon and Alamossit, helped inspire this story. Nancy Baker (Thomaston, ME) is a Maine artist, illustrator, and muralist whose landscapes, still lifes, and figurative works in oils and pastels are represented by Mars Hall Gallery in Tenants Harbor, Maine. While visiting the sweetgrass meadows of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park with Suzanne and Gabriel, Nancy learned the ecology and cultural importance of sweetgrass and witnessed the majesty of the landscape in which it grows, qualities that she has worked to convey in these illustrations.