The newest episode of Books are Good Medicine is an author talk with Debra Magpie Earling. Books are Good Medicine is a new podcast sponsored by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community exploring books, and other K-12 teaching resources in the Native American experience.
In this epoisode, hosts Allison Waukau and Odia Wood-Krueger interview award-winning author Debra Magpie Earling (Bitterroot Salish) about her latest novel, "The Lost Journals of Sacajewea," which re-centers Sacajewea as the arbiter of her own history.
Debra shares what she thinks everyone should know about the real Sacajewea and how she envisions using this book in classrooms.
Content warning: This book contains violence and other mature content.
This podcast is sponsored by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and its recent Understand Native Minnesota campaign to improve the Native American narrative in Minnesota’s schools.
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