The First Blade of Sweetgrass Lacrosse Allashua is a quick-thinking girl

Allashua is a quick-thinking girl and convinces the creatures to let her go home when she promises to bring her brothers and sisters to the creatures

following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument

Henderson puts the Declaration and the struggles of Indigenous peoples in a wider context

Chapter five Resurgence: The Great Canoes

As they hatch

The First Blade of Sweetgrass Lacrosse Allashua is a quick-thinking girlIn this Own Voices Native American picture book, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making. She must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish sweetgrass from other salt marsh grasses, but slowly the spirit and peace of her surroundings speak to her, and she gathers sweetgrass as her ancestors have done for centuries, leaving the first blade she sees to grow