A review by meaganmart
Borders by Thomas King

3.0

As an adult, I enjoyed Borders. I thought it told a wonderful and necessary story about how Indigenous Americans and Canadians often have to forgo their relationship to their Indigenous culture and history to "fit in" to the boxes forced on them by majority power groups. My students, however, might need a little more historical and cultural context to feel the full impact of this graphic novel. We live in the Southern United States, but almost none of my children are familiar with border crossings or with the historical context of how tribes were divided across country lines or how the citizenship of Indigenous communities is awarded. This is the context that I can help provide as their librarian, but it would be nice for a little of this information to be included as they were reading!