Picked Apart the Bones Young Adult Fiction and celebrates the beauty of

and celebrates the beauty of nature and our connection to the natural world

Hatband with blue/orange/yellow beadwork by Wayne Walker

and the Patrons gifted the five clans with cannys

from her early childhood and aviation accomplishments as a teenager

Chickasaw woman Ella McSwain is navigating the fate of her family against the turbulence of Indian Territory and its imminent establishment as Oklahoma

Picked Apart the Bones Young Adult Fiction and celebrates the beauty ofChickasaw writer Rebecca Hatcher Travis bases the poems in her exquisite first collection on memories of life in her family and on the Oklahoma landscapes and scenes that surrounded her as a child. Her poems also serve as testimonies to the First American ancestors who have passed on to the next life. Picked Apart the Bones won the 2006 First Book Award for Poetry from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.