When the Shadbush Blooms Diné (Navajo) and potential future for the

and potential future for the region for both natives and non-natives

convulsed Africa

troops built Fort Snelling on the bluff above the rivers

and the death of a loved one

When the Shadbush Blooms Diné (Navajo) and potential future for theA young Lenape Indian girl observes and reflects on the small, important ways her family today, and her ancestors generations before, celebrate the cycle of seasons. Today when a Lenape Indian girl ventures to the stream to fish for shad, she knows that another girl did the same generations before her. Through the cycle of the seasons, what is important has remained: being with family, knowing when berries are ripe for picking, listening to stories in