Celebration! Jingle Dress Innu author Melissa Mollen Dupuis

Innu author Melissa Mollen Dupuis teams up with award-winning author and illustrator Elise Gravel to take readers on a journey through Innu culture

and strength

the stealing of Native children is perhaps the most heartbreaking

equality and good faith

queer rights and self-empowerment

Celebration! Jingle Dress Innu author Melissa Mollen DupuisCelebration is almost here! For four days every other June, the streets of Juneau are filled with Native people of all ages dressed in the signature regalia of clans from throughout Southeast Alaska and beyond. There is traditional song and dance. Arts and crafts. Food. And people speaking local Native languages. This is Celebration, a biennial festival of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures. In this original story, a young child prepares to attend