Native American heritage picks

Tessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says it's because Kohkom spends her days sewing beautiful beads onto smoked hides. Inspired, Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beading, but first she must listen and learn about the many stories a bead holds.

Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking.

Even someone who has lived a long time can see wonderful things that they've never seen before. In this case, it's Raven's grandmother watching her young grandson celebrating the traditional round dance with a ribbon skirt of his own.

Generation after generation, Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines, balancing on narrow beams and facing down terrifying heights and heartbreaking loss while building a legacy of landmarks across North America.

Sissy's younger brother Chooch isn't a baby anymore. They just celebrated his second birthday, after all. But no matter what Chooch does-- even if he's messing something up -- their parents say he's "helping." Sissy feels that Chooch can get away with anything!

The true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender who, in 1911, became the first two Native pro baseball players to face off in a World Series, teaches important lessons about resilience, doing what you love in the face of injustice and the fight for Native American representation in sports.

A two-spirit, nonbinary 10-year-old, Anang sets out to make a ribbon skirt, a piece of clothing typically worn by girls in the Anishinaabe tradition, for an upcoming powwow, finding support, community and confidence along the way.

When the Elders' Tribal Center opens up their talent show to the entire community, Jo Jo puts her mind to helping her classmates identify their talents but has a hard time following the substitute teacher's new rules.