Smith brings her personal perspective to the Native American experience and Indigenous connections to the land

The women warriors in these tales have lived through a variety of mishaps

Troy Cochrane

and ecological transformation

an Ojibwe Woodland artist

Kahoʻolawe: The True Story of an Island and Her People activism Smith brings her personal perspectiveIn the middle of the great Pacific Ocean is a little island. Her name is Kanaloa Kaho'olawe. Discover the story of an island sacred to Native Hawaiians. Beginning with her birth in a volcanic eruption, Kaho'olawe thrives surrounded by animals on land and in the sea. When Polynesian voyagers arrive and begin to raise their families there, the island is happy. As the years pass, invasive goats devastate the ecosystem, and during World War II and the