Reprint of 1977 and 1988 editions. Author's note updates to current events, including Water Protectors at Standing Rock.

I liked this book but at the same time I did not like it. I did not like how wordy it was on each page, it would make it very hard to keep a childs attention and would take up a lot of time during the day to read this aloud. I did like how it brought up the struggles of the Native Americans but they skipped right to Natives being put on reservations but there was no mention of the trail of tears. I also liked how it brought up a sense of comradery between the group of minorities.
The book starts off saying that nature is connect to people and that people are basically connected to nature. They talked about how as different tribes work to resolve issues peacfully and how they respected the land. White and Spanish settlers started to close in and move to the Americas causing the whites having to sign treaties saying what are Native Americans could have but not what they could do do. Then the white men said the Natives could not have their land or culture and forced them onto small regions of smaller areas of land called reservation. It talks about how they felt a sense of unity for people who were also minorites ( )

From the Author's Note:
Originally published in 1977, The People Shall Continue is a story of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically in the US, as they continue to try to live on lands they have known to be their traditional homelands from time immemorial.

From the back cover: Written in the rhythms of traditional oral narrative, this is an epic story of Native American People.

From creation to the near-present, The People Shall Continue tells the story of the People living in the Americas long before white settler/colonialists arrived.

"All this time, the People remembered.
Parents told their children,
'You are Shawnee. You are Lakota.
You are Pima. You are Acoma.
You are Tlingit. You are Mohawk.
You are all these Nations of the People.'"

Illustrations are in pencil and ink, digitally enhanced. Native people are in rich brown; white people are literally white (as paper, not as skin). Different landscapes, dwellings, and clothing are depicted. ( )

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