Through a series of vivid images and interviews focused on the venues

In The Incarceration of Native American Women

In The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux

they get their values from peer culture

receive validation and support from their peers

Stitches of Tradition (Gashkigwaaso Tradition) culture Through a series of vivid"Noozhishenh, bimadiziwin," Nookomis says. "My granddaughter, live a good life." An Ojibwe grandmother carefully measures and selects just the right colors of fabric, and her sewing machine hums whirr, whirr, whirr late into the night. In the morning, her growing granddaughter has a beautiful new ribbon skirt to wear, a reminder of her nookomis and the cultural traditions that stitch together her family with love. This heartwarming story by Marcie