Follow along as Ria shares her dance journey--from dreaming of her future to performing as a professional--accompanied by striking illustrations that depict it while bringing her graceful movements to life

By drawing on Indigenous perspectives on the land as kin

she realizes that maybe she's not as far from home as she thought

Ross called for all Cherokees

original maps

The Painted Drum - Large Print Tongva Follow along as Ria sharesThis is the large print edition. While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined.