Laura Waterman Wittstock
Autore di Ininatig's Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking
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Opere di Laura Waterman Wittstock
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- female
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- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 93
- Popolarità
- #200,859
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 5
I particularly liked the fact that, much like the My World: Young Native Americans Today titles, Ininatig's Gift of Sugar was written and photographed by Native Americans themselves, as so many books about America's indigenous peoples are written by outsiders, and contain misinformation. Author Laura Waterman Wittstock is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation in New York, while photographer Dale Kakkak belongs to the Menominee Nation. Both text and image provides a realistic, contemporary portrait of native people - something that, as the series name implies, must have been a deliberate aim of the creators - as well as an engaging look at sugaring. Recommended to young readers with an interest in this process, or in the Anishinaabe people.… (altro)