Fry Bread
by Kevin Noble Maillard
Fry bread is history. Fry bread is family. Fry bread is us.
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your child deserves to understand Indigenous American culture through something as specific and true as a recipe
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Fry bread is color — the tan of the dough, the brown of the pan. Fry bread is history — the forced marches, the rations, the land taken. Fry bread is family — the aunties arguing about the recipe, the children watching, the hands that teach the hands. Maillard is Seminole Nation and wrote this as a love letter to a food that carries everything Indigenous families have been through. Each page names what fry bread is: time, place, memory, nation, community, resistance. The most honest picture book about Native American life and culture ever published for young children.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- North America
- Voice
- Written by a North America author
Same pattern, different era
Different time, different place. The same thing keeps happening.
For the grown-up bookshelf
Same idea, written for a grown-up. Good for the adult in the room, too.
