Wôpanâak Seasons
Seeqan, Neepun, Keepun, Pup8n
- Publisher
- Tradewind Books
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2025
- Category
- NON-CLASSIFIABLE, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Native American
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781926890418
- Publish Date
- Jun 2025
- List Price
- $24.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 6 to 8
- Grade: 1 to 3
- Reading age: 6 to 8
Description
In Wôpanâak Seasons: Seeqan, Neepun, Keepun, Pup8n a young Wampanoag child takes readers on a seasonal journey through Aquinnah, on Neope, known as Martha’s Vineyard. Spring brings the return of wildlife; summer brings beach adventures and clambakes; fall is for harvesting cranberries and making jams; and winter features cozy gatherings and heartfelt traditions. Each season showcases the rich cultural heritage of the Wampanoag people. With striking illustrations and lyrical prose, this book is about an appreciation of the land and the joy the joy of coming together with our community all year round.
About the authors
Carrie Anne Vanderhoop is from a lineage of Haida weavers—the daughter of Evelyn Vanderhoop and the granddaughter of Delores Churchill from the Gawa Git’ans Massett Inlet Eagle Clan of Old Massett. Her father, David Vanderhoop, is Aquinnah Wampanoag from Neope, commonly known as Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, where she grew up. She now lives on Haida Gwaii. As an educator, Carrie Anne hopes this book will foster in young people a connection with our natural world—the forests, the ocean and the seashore.
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MANGESHIG PAWIS-STECKLEY is an Anishinaabe illustrator and a member of Wasauksing First Nation. He illustrated the award-winning picture book Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know and Mnoomin maan'gowing / The Gift of Mnoomin, both by Brittany Luby, and is the author and illustrator of Boozhoo! / Hello! He lives in the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples (Vancouver) with his wife Maria and daughter Mino.
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