About Tara Perron Books
Tanaǧidaŋ To Wiŋ Tara Perron is a writer and educator. Her publications include Takóza: Walks with the Blue Moon Girl, Animals of Kheya Wita, Animals of Nimaamaa-aki, and Awánkičhiyaka pi: Take Care of Each Other. She enjoys sharing her Indigenous culture, language, art, and healing traditions through classes, tours, and her Blue Hummingbird Woman Indigenous Gift Shop in St. Paul, Minnesota.Holly Young (Thizáptaŋna/Wičhíyena Dakota, Standing Rock Reservation) was raised by her grandmother in a rural area of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. She is committed to preserving and sharing traditional Dakota floral styles and designs through her beadwork, quillwork, and ledger art, which are seeds from which her vision grows. Through art, she affirms herself as a Dakota woman and mother by practicing Winyan Omniciye, the circle of sharing knowledge: What you learn, you give back.
