My Life: Growing Up Native in America -- Illuminative

<b>A moving collection of twenty powerful essays, poems, and more that capture and celebrate the modern Native American experience, featuring entries by </b><b>Angeline Boulley, Madison Hammond, Kara Roselle Smith, and many more. </b> <p/>With heart, pathos, humor, and insight, twenty renowned writers, performers, athletes, and activists explore what it means to be Native American today. Through a series of essays and poems, these luminaries give voice to their individual experiences while shedding light on the depth and complexity of modern Native American identity, resiliency, and joy. <p/>The topics are as fascinating and diverse as the creators. From Mato Wayuhi, award-winning composer of <i>Reservation Dogs</i>, honoring a friend who believed in his talent to <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Angeline Boulley exploring what it means to feel Native enough, these entries are not only an exploration of community, they are also a call for a more just and equitable world, and a road map toward a brighter future. <p/>Edited by IllumiNative, an organization dedicated to amplifying contemporary Native voices, <i>My Life: Growing Up Native in America</i> features contributions from Angeline Boulley, Philip J. Deloria, Eric Gansworth, Kimberly Guerrero, Somah Haaland, Madison Hammond, Nasugraq Rainey Hopson, Trudie Jackson, Princess Daazhraii Johnson, Lady Shug, Ahsaki Baa LaFrance-Chachere, Taietsarón: sere Leclaire, Cece Meadows, Sherri Mitchell, Charlie Amaya Scott, Kar