Her middle grade novel, Indian No More, with the late Charlene Willing McManis (Tu Books, 2019), explores the impact of federal termination and relocation policies on an Umpqua family in the 1950s. Traci’s lyrical story in verse, At the Mountain’s Base, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre (Kokila, 2019) celebrates the bonds of family and the history of history-making women pilots, including Millie Rexroat (Oglala Lakota). Traci Sorell writes fiction and nonfiction books as well as poems for children. We Are Still Here is appropriate for readers aged 7 to 10 years old. Precise, lyrical writing present topics including: force assimilation )such as boarding schools), land allotment and Native tribal reorganization, termination (the US government not recognizing tribes as nations), Native Urban relocation (from reservations), self-determination (tribal self-empowerment), Native civil rights, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), religious freedom, economic development (including casino development), Native language revival efforts, cultural persistence, and nationhood. We Are Still Here offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people’s past present, and future. Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. Sibert Honor Book, We Are Still Here, presents historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victories in Native Life, each with the powerful refrain, We Are Still Here, of twelve Native American kids. The 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor and 2022 Robert F. Traci Sorell, author of We Are Still Here: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know, will present the first ever in person CLSC Young Readers presentation in the Hall of Philosophy.

Mystic Heart Interspiritual Meditation Program.Chautauqua Opera Company & Conservatory.

Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Classical Concerts.Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.Denominations and Religious Organizations.Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) at Chautauqua.

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