![]() ![]() It is quite the challenge to impart substantive information in an engaging way, but Maillard and Martinez-Neal have done it, beautifully, in Fry Bread. This wide variety of faces reflects a history of intermingling between tribes and also with people of European, African, and Asian descent. Just like the characters I this book, Native people may have blonde hair or black skin, tight cornrows or a loose braid. ![]() But there is an enormous range of hair textures and skin colors. Most people think Native Americans always have brown skin and black hair. The final pages of Fry Bread can help you interrupt that kind of harmful statement. That's such a damaging statement! When you hear an adult say that to anybody-but especially a child-stop them. That expectation means that adults don't hesitate to tell a Native child like the girl holding the cat that they are "not really an Indian" (or some variant of that phrase). ![]() Fry Bread pushes back on the expectation that Native people look the same (black hair, dark skin, high cheekbones etc.). After the lecture, a family approached me to say how deeply moved they are by seeing a child with lighter skin and hair. ![]()
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