Why we dance a story of hope and healing

A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.

Main Author:	Havrelock, Deidre (Author)
Other Authors:	McKnight, Aly (Illustrator) (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2024.
Subjects:	Jingle dress dance > Juvenile fiction. Indian dance > North America > Juvenile fiction. Dance > Juvenile fiction. Powwows > Juvenile fiction. Indians of North America > Juvenile fiction. Indian dance > Juvenile fiction. Picture books.

Summary:	A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.
Physical Description:	40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Audience:	Ages 4 to 8.
ISBN:	9781419756672 1419756672
Author Notes:	Deidre Havrelock is a member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada. She was raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and is the author of the picture book Buffalo Wild! , hailed as an "exuberant celebration," and Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge , coauthored with Edward Kay. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis, with her family. Aly McKnight is a self-taught watercolor artist and illustrator whose art features vibrant colors and Indigenous stories. Aly is an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and grew up in a small farming community in northern Nevada, She is the second-youngest of eight children and is now based out of Utah, where she lives with her partner, Brockton, of Hawaiian/Samoan descent, and their daughter, Paoakalani.