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Sometimes, just sometimes, you need to read a book twice to make sure you understand where it is going. When I read the description of Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior I thought it would be about a woman from history. Instead, it’s about a girl of today and how history has influenced her. I urge you to learn the history, and see the present fight for the Anishinaabe and others.
Basic Details for Water Warriors
Title: Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior
Author: Carole Lindstrom
Illustrator: Bridget George
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 40
Intended Audience: 4-8 years
Genre: Picture Book, Children’s multicultural biographies, Native Americans, Environment,
Available formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook
Reviewed for: Raincoast Books
Received: Hardcover with fly
About the Author and the book
Autumn Peltier’s story is told in short form by Carole Lindstorm. Carole Lindstorm is Anishinaabe/Metis and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. Her goal is to write about her people and their strength and resilience. Always and avid reader, she discovered her love of writing children’s literature when her son was a young child. She has written three books.
About the book:
Ms. Peltier’s story is told in the book Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior. It tells the story of how Indigenous women have long cared for the land and water, which in turn sustains all life on Earth – honoring their ancestors and providing for generations to come. Yet there was a time when their voices and teachings were nearly drowned out, leaving entire communities and environments in danger and without clean water.
But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece, Autumn Peltier.
Digging Deeper
You’ll find clear, big, and easy to read text telling this story of inspiration. I always love a book where I can choose to read it with a good of children, or with a single child gathered next to me. In this particular story, the water tells the story.
Water tells it’s story from the beginning to the present. How at first everyone helped water creating ways to it to be safe for seven generations into the future. Then other voices began to speak who didn’t listen to or care for water. People needed to learn about the importance of water again. People need to speak out for what is right. Clean water for all!
Throughout you will see images of water, with blues flowing throughout leading from one page to the other. The closing notes will teach you about Grandma Josephine and the Water Walk. 35 days of walking around Lake Superior where the water was not always blue and clean. The encouragement is strong throughout…. fight well for life-giving water!
My Thoughts
You can see the heart that Carole Lindstrom has for encouraging people to fight for what is right. In Autumn Peltier Water Warrior we see a young lady learning to care for water. Of seeing the examples of her ancestors to encourage her along the way. Indigenous activism, to help make communities and the world a better place to live. This is a good thing yes?
