Cekpa Format:Paperback and twinkling tin foil stars

and twinkling tin foil stars

All of Chicago is ablaze and one thing is clear: the city is like a powder keg

and all the soldiers fled

Edwidge Danticat

The uplifting story of a young Black scientist's challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia

Cekpa Format:Paperback and twinkling tin foil starsA Memoir in Beaded Essays For Leah Altman, growing up as an adoptee outside of her culture meant growing up without her cekpa, the Lakota connection to family and homeland. Now an adult, Leah departs her life in Portland, Oregon, to seek out her birth family and reconnect to her heritage each chapter of her journey a bead in this literary cekpa crafted for her own children. Born "Baby Girl Blackfeather," Leah Altman was separated from her birth family