Young readers are called to respond passionately by joining the stand, pledging to become water protectors and earth stewards. WE STAND.” Goade, through vibrant watercolors, communicates the clear and imminent necessity of communities standing together in solidarity for our world. The story, with its foundation taken from the 2016 Standing Rock protests in the Dakotas, takes place on Indigenous land and reminds us “we are stewards of the Earth and that together we must fight to protect our planet’s sacred water.” Fighting against the arrival of an oil pipeline, the female main character, literally and metaphorically, stands up against the evil “black snake” calling on us all to embrace that “we are water protectors.
We Are Water Protectors empowers the reader to stand up for environmental justice and one of the most important elements for our survival – water. It was always blonde hair, real light colored skin, not who I was when I was younger," she says, "I just didn't know where my people were.We Are Water Protectors, written by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade, and published by Roaring Brook Press, is the Winner in the Books for Younger Children category. "I just want them.to see themselves in a positive way when they pick up a book. She says My Powerful Hair is her "gift" to children who look like her. Those she did see, were depicted as savages. She says she almost never saw children who looked like her in the books she read as a little girl. NEW YORK (AP) Illustrator Michaela Goade became the first Native American to win the prestigious Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children’s picture story, cited for We Are Water Protectors, a celebration of nature and condemnation of the black snake Dakota Access Pipeline. Lindstrom wishes the world had "clicked" sooner. It won a Caldecott Medal and became a bestseller.
"And when that happened, the world kind of suddenly went 'click,'" she says.Ī publisher snapped up her book We Are Water Protectors. The campaign, launched in 2014, pushed for greater diversity in publishing. Then, she says, We Need Diverse Books came about. "So I was writing tooth fairy stories and all those things," she jokes. Lindstrom says there was a time when publishers wouldn't even look at her stories about Indigenous culture. Her 10 year old son Talon is proud to grow his hair long. Cherona Jerome is an elementary school teacher at Turtle Mountain Elementary School in Belcourt, North Dakota.
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