The Skin and Its Girl teachings Writer and producer Migizi Pensoneau

Writer and producer Migizi Pensoneau (Ponca/Ojibwe)

Organized around the premise of the Trickster Academy-- a university space run by

"--The New York Times Book Review

tells her firsthand experience of much change in the community and looks ahead with renewed cultural strength and hope for the first people of Minnesota

It's just the three of them in the vast black woods

The Skin and Its Girl teachings Writer and producer Migizi PensoneauIn a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family's ancestral home in Palestine, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns vibrantly, permanently cobalt blue. On the same day, the Rummanis' centuries old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of their lore, Aunt Nuha, believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history, harkening back to a time when the Rummanis were