Yvonne Wakim Dennis - Native American Almanac: More Than 50.000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous People

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Names: Dennis, Yvonne Wakim, author. | Hirschfelder, Arlene B., author. | Flynn, Shannon Rothenberger, author.

Title: Native American almanac : more than 50,000 years of the cultures and histories of indigenous peoples / by Yvonne Wakim Dennis, Arlene Hirschfelder, and Shannon Rothenberger Flynn.

Description: Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015050881| ISBN 9781578595075 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781578596089 (epub) | ISBN 9781578596096 (kindle)

Subjects: LCSH: Indians of North AmericaHistory. | Indians of North AmericaSocial life and customs.

Classification: LCC E77 .D394 2016 | DDC 970.004/97dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015050881

Y vonne Wakim Dennis (Cherokee/Sand Hill/Syrian) is an award-winning author of nonfiction books for children and adults, many coauthored with Arlene Hirschfelder. An avid multiculturalist, Dennis interweaves environmental justice into all she writes. Although most of her publications have been about Indigenous peoples of the United States, she has also penned books about the diverse cultures of America. She serves as the Education Director for the Childrens Cultural Center of Native America and is a board director of Nitchen, Inc., an advocacy organization for Indigenous families in the New York City metropolitan area. She is a multicultural consultant for businesses, schools, and publishers and is a columnist for Native Hoop Magazine . In 2014, Dennis received the National Arab American Museums Best Childrens Book of the Year Honor (for A Kids Guide to Arab American History ), a Sanaka Award, and the David Chow Humanitarian Award.

Photo: Marsha Michel

A rlene Hirschfelder is the author or editor of over twenty-five books about Native peoples, including Native Americans: A History in Pictures and The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists . She and Yvonne Dennis have authored five books together, including the award-winning Children of Native America Today and A Kids Guide to Native American History . She worked at the Association on American Indian Affairs (a civil rights organization), for over twenty years and has years of experience consulting with publishers, museums, schools, and universities. In addition to being an author, Hirschfelder is series editor of It Happened to Me, which includes forty-seven nonfiction books (and still counting) for teen readers and is published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Photo by Karl Rabe

S hannon Rothenberger Flynn is a writer of Michif (Chippewa-German) and Norwegian-American descent. She has authored lifestyle and design books for Hearst and contributed writing and editorial services to The Native Americansan Illustrated History , which became a cable network series. She was project editor for the Scholastic Encyclopedia of the North American Indian and served as Native American consultant on books for young readers. Flynn teaches writing at Dutchess Community College and English at Westchester Community College in New York. She also writes and performs stories with the TMI Project in Ulster County, New York, where she lives.

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Y vonne gives a big wado, wanishi to: Beverly Singer; Nadema Agard; Dwayne Wilcox; Juan Carlos Aguirre; Karen Taylor; Roberto Mukaro Borrero; Eric W. Sanderson; Jennifer Billie; Lita Pepion; James Morales; Audrey Cooper; Tlisza Jaurique; April Estrellon; Joseph Kabance; Marc Yaffee; Debbie Reese; Eileen Soler; Mariana Vergara; Todd Labrador; Tanis Parenteau; Gabrielle Tayac; Jim and Smoki Fraser; Mary Kathryn Nagle; Misty Brescia Dreifuss; Dawi Winston; Haunani-Kay Trask; Noenoe K. Silva; Kevin Brown; Patrice M. Le Melle; Kay WalkingStick; Virgil Ortiz; Ryan Pierce; Cynthia Leitich Smith; Philadelphia Phillies; Steven Newcomb; Carol Kalafatic; Tish Agoyo; Gelvin Stevenson; Susan Guice; Joseph Gone; my beloved co-writers Arlene and Shannon; publisher Roger Jnecke; managing editor Kevin Hile; my supportive, patient, helpful hubby, Roger; and all my family and friends whom I have ignored during these past two years. Now we can go out and play! I ask forgiveness for any mistakes I may have made.

Shannon gives major thanks to Beverly Singer, Jonathan Flynn, Catherine Revland, Tim Trewhella, Prairie Rose Seminole, Robert Desjarlait, Clark Vincent Fox, Charles Pierce, Ivy Vainio, Michael Meuers, The Bemidji Language Project, Julie Carrow, Michael Horse, Francisco Vasquez, David Lopez, Nike N7 Fund, Resa Sunshine, and my esteemed co-authors. Thank you always to my father, Phil, who blesses my every day.