![]() ![]() Fry bread would have started out with the Diné people, the Navajos in the southwest of the United States who had their land taken away from them. What's the story you're telling in Fry Bread? This wonderful food that comes from a very dark place in Native culture and Native families' lives. This book seems perfectly suited to the time we are all living in right now. And I like to think it's just like an audience of short people. I started writing for The New York Times, which I still do now, still writing on all the same issues, but for a larger audience.Īnd then also with children's books, it's the same topic, but just a different audience. And then after being a professor for awhile, I started to branch out into journalism. ![]() I started off as an academic, focusing a lot on Native issues, on identity, on mixed racial and cultural identity. What made you decide to try writing a picture book? So you already work as a journalist and a law professor. Kevin Noble Maillard is an author, journalist and law professor at Syracuse University. ![]()
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