Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

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While Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story is children story book recommended for audiences ages three to six written by Oklahoma Seminole and NYC journalist and academic Kevin Noble Maillard and illustrated by Peruvian Juana Martinez-Neal.

Plot

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story Book Cover

Fry Bread is story of a modern Native American family, this book was illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal.

Fry bread is food. It means that the bread is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate".

Fry bread is time. It means that the bread brings families together for meals and new memories".

Fry bread is nation. It means that the bread is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond.

Fry bread is us. It means that it is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference.[1]

Black Anti-Racism

Fry Bread is a vibrant and evocative depiction of Native American family life. We have been told that through the one thing it will brings all families together, that this is the food. Maillard used an eye catching (like flavor and sound) to illustrate the more conceptual: nation, place, and heritage. It really showed the real identities of Black people, but also that there are Black indigenous people in the U.S. Who had been targeted to this double impact of indigenous dispossession and racial capitalism,” says Hi'ilei Hobart, mom and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas.[2] In one of the page "Fry bread is color..." displays the different types of Native Americans, highlighting the unity between tribes and also with people of European, African, and Asian descent," so that blonde hair or black skin are all parts of being Native American.[3]

More than just food, “Fry bread is time…Fry bread is art…Fry bread is history.” In the extensive, informative back matter, Maillard explains how fry bread became a part of many Native Americans’ diet after the people were forced from their land and given limited rations by the United States government. The book’s endpapers powerfully list the names of Indigenous communities and nations currently within the U.S., some federally recognized, others not.[4] The text and illustrations showed the readers that “Native America is not a past history of vanished people and communities. Through its accessible, informational writing and cheerful illustrations, Fry Bread is a detail work of literature for young readers to have a better understanding about the diversity and unity of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America both past and present.[5]

References


  1. Macmillan Publishers. Fry Bread, December 25, 2020.
  2. Francis, Ali (2020). 23 Books to Help Kids of All Ages Learn About Race. Retrieved on December 25, 2020.
  3. Children's Review: Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story. Retrieved on December 25, 2020.
  4. Montgomery, Nicholl (2019). Review of Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story. Retrieved on December 25, 2020.
  5. Cunningham, Katie (2020). Fry Bread, A Native American Family Story: A Love Letter to Indigenous Nations and Communities. Retrieved on December 25, 2020.