Sivulliq: Ancestor science dismantling American mythologies and fostering

dismantling American mythologies and fostering critical reasoning about history and current events

Ysleta del Sur

the community to which author Monty McGahey II belongs

Illustrator Jennifer Faria creates illustrations so cozy they make the winter’s day feel warm

Sivulliq: Ancestor science dismantling American mythologies and fosteringIn the spring of 1893, arctic Alaska is devastated by smallpox. Kayaliruk knows it is time to light the funeral pyres and leave their home. With her surviving children, she packs their dog sled and they set off to find family. Kayaliruk wakes with a bleeding scalp and no memory of the last day. Her daughter was stolen by Yankee whalers, her sons say. They begin chasing the ship, through arctic storms, across immeasurable distances, slipping into the