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The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood by Ellen Beier, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
2.0
A nice story that provides some incidental information about reservation life during the childhood of the author Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. But doesn't offer a point for readers to reflect, like a page at the end that summarizes the life makes people confront the prejudices that created circumstances where people were relocated to inhospitable environments and then denied the minimum requirements to live there (like warm clothing) and had to rely on the backhanded charity of east coasters. So...it's a good book, but I can see you could read it and just move on without processing.
Read for Read Harder 2019: A children's or middle grad book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009. This book won the American Indian Youth Literature Award – Picture Book. "These awards are presented every two years and were established as a way to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians." Recommended by Book Riot: https://bookriot.com/2019/03/14/childrens-diversity-award-books/
Read for Read Harder 2019: A children's or middle grad book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009. This book won the American Indian Youth Literature Award – Picture Book. "These awards are presented every two years and were established as a way to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians." Recommended by Book Riot: https://bookriot.com/2019/03/14/childrens-diversity-award-books/