Seven Aunts Tohono O'odham the beloved author and illustrator

the beloved author and illustrator of Birdsong

it was about cultural survival

"Earth Keeper is a prayer for continuity in these days of uncertainty

the lives of ravens

teaches her chicks what they need to survive with the help of her flock

Seven Aunts Tohono O'odham the beloved author and illustratorPart memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century. They were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babiesand there were so manyadded more trouble but even more love.