In Whispers Pawnee Celebrated author Monique Gray Smith

Celebrated author Monique Gray Smith has written many books on the topics of resilience and reconciliation and communicates an important message through carefully chosen words for readers of all ages

What a thoughtful celebration

the Peacemaker

the girl who drew it

Indigo is rescued by the kind-hearted Hattie and her worldly husband

In Whispers Pawnee Celebrated author Monique Gray SmithThe year was 1957. Simon Pendagayosh and Carolina Shaugobay meet outside a variety store on a Saturday trip to town while attending St. Mary's Mission School, a Catholic boarding school for Native students. Simon, thirteen years of age, and Carolina, fourteen, fall in love. The boarding school era had a devastating effect on many Native people, designed to dispossess them from their communities, assimilate them into non Native society, and erase their