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We Are Water Protectors
Inspired by environmental movements led by Indigenous communities, the picture book We Are Water Protectors (2020) celebrates the importance of water and invites readers to take part in safeguarding this precious resource. A young water protector must save her community’s water from a black snake (an oil pipeline). Accompanying the text by Carole Lindstrom are beautiful illustrations by Michaela Goade, which garnered the picture book the 2021 Caldecott Medal. The book includes author and illustrator notes reflecting on movements like the Standing Rock Sioux’s protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline and Indigenous perspectives on water.
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