Dan Sasuweh Jones

Broschiertes Buch

Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories

Beschreibung

Thirty-two short stories chosen from the tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America, featuring witches, walking dolls, hungry skeletons, skinwakers, and other supernatural beings.

Autor

Dan SaSuWeh Jones is the critically acclaimed author of Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools and Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories, and was a storyteller and consultant for National Geographic Encyclopedia of the American Indian. A former Chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma and former member of the Producers Guild of America, he is also a filmmaker who has produced work for Sesame Street, NBC, TBS, and other national and international networks. He worked as an honorary Imagineer and consultant for the Walt Disney Company's Disney America theme park and as a field producer for the television miniseries 500 Nations, produced by Kevin Costner. As a bronze sculptor, he was a finalist in the competition for the American Indian Veterans Memorial at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. He holds a seat in the House of Warriors, a traditional Ponca Warrior Society. Weshoyot Alvitre is a female author and illustrator from the Tongva tribe of Southern California. She currently resides with her husband and two children on Ventureno Chumash Territory in Ventura, California. Her work focuses on an Indigenous lens and voice on projects from children's books to adult market graphic novels. She has recently been published as an artist in Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, written by Lee Francis 4 and edited by Will Fenton; At The Mountains Base written by Traci Sorell; and was Art Director on the video game "When Rivers Were Trails." She enjoys spinning yarn and collecting antiques.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scholastic Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 174mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781338681604
• ISBN-10: 1338681605
• Artikelnr.: 60906429