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Life is a circle, just like the seasons, from youth through old age. The circle of the year brings seasonal rituals: a winter of preparation followed by a summer of powwows.Sharyl and Windy Downwind and their children travel from their home on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to powwows all around the region. For the past year, their oldest daughter, Shian, has been honored as junior princess for Bug-o-nay-ge-shig School. At the Leech Lake Memorial Day gathering, Shian will hand over her crown to the next princess. Later that summer, the family attends the Red Lake Fourth of July powwow seeking healing and comfort. Windy is mourning his mother, who recently passed away, and also honoring her by dancing at the powwow. At ceremonies and in daily life, Windy and Sharyl celebrate Anishinaabe culture by teaching their children traditional skills, dance steps, and lifeways, all part of the circle of community and the seasons and life.
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Marcie Rendon, citizen of the White Earth Nation. Oprah Magazine's 2020 list of 31 Native American Author's to read. 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award. 50over50 MN AAARP & Pollen Award. Rendon's novel Girl Gone Missing, Cinco Puntos Press, the second Cash Blackbear novel was nominatee for Putnam's Son's Sue Grafton Memorial Award at the Edgars, 2020. Murder on the Red River (2017 Cinco Puntos Press) was the Pinckley Women's Debut Crime Novel Award 2018 and Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018 Contemporary Novel category. Rendon has non-fiction children's books and four plays published. Her script, Sweet Revenge was chosen to be a staged reading in the Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company's 2020 New Native American Play Festival. The creative mind of Raving Native Theater, she curated TwinCities Public Television's Art Is ... CreativeNativeResilience 2019. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the Loft's 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for work with incarcerated women.
