This is NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Kia Miyaka-Nates. Today we're featuring two children's books

that highlight the indigenous experience in America, including a story about the little-known history

of the 1911 World Series. That book, in a bit, but first, a new picture book about a young girl

excited to do something once denied her people, to grow her hair long. The book is called My

Powerful Hair by Carol Lindstrom and illustrator Steph Littlebird. It shares the painful story

of the abuse indigenous children endured in the early

1900s through the eyes of a young child learning to celebrate her hair and reclaim her identity.

The two chat here with Here and Now's Deepa Fernandez about the memories hair can hold.

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The new picture book, My Powerful Hair, explores a painful topic, the abuse of indigenous

children in the early 1900s and its after effects.

But it does so from the perspective of a child who celebrates as her

hair grows longer and is interwoven with her memories. Carol Lindstrom is the author of My

Powerful Hair. She is a Nishinaabe Matee as well as a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe.

And she joins me now. Carol, welcome.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

Also joining us is Steph Little Bird.

She's a member of Oregon's Confederate tribes of Grand Rond, and she did the gorgeous illustrations.

Welcome to you as well, Steph.

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