Let the People Speak Anthology The 2016 Honor Middle Grade

The 2016 Honor Middle Grade Book selected by the American Indian Library Association jury is Dreaming in Indian Contemporary Native Voices edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale (2014) Annick Press

The author

Mari Kurisato

given to me by my people

Reading Counts Level: 5

Let the People Speak Anthology The 2016 Honor Middle GradeLet the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation author and journalist Sheilla Jones raises an important question: are the well documented social inequities in Indigenous communities high levels of poverty, suicide, incarceration, children in care, family violence the symptoms of this long standing, institutionalized powerlessness? If so, the solution lies in empowerment. Over the past fifty years, Canada's Indigenous Affairs department