Carole Lindstrom’s ‘My Powerful Hair’ is a new picture book that turns a painful truth about racism into a celebration of Native culture.
Two girls are seen sharing a bed due to overcrowding at a Navajo boarding school in Chinle, Az., in Dec. 1945.Two girls are seen sharing a bed due to overcrowding at a Navajo boarding school in Chinle, Az., in Dec. 1945.As an adult, Lindstrom set out to find out more about her culture and learned the truth about hair."The hair is such a big part of who we are and our identity," she says,"It's like a living scrapbook.
In the story, the young girl cuts her hair when her grandfather dies."I sent it into the spirit world with him so that he could have my energies," she says. The girls Carole Lindstrom saw in books growing up were blonde with light skin."I just didn't know where my people were," says the author. Her bookAbrams Books
Jerome also relates to Lindstrom's desire to teach children Native traditions. She says the hard truth is that her mother and grandparents' were taught to be,"ashamed of their culture. They they weren't allowed to be proud of it." She continues,"We're the generation that's teaching them our culture again."
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