What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal
Authors: Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger
"There is no death. Only a change of worlds.” —Chief Seattle [Seatlh], Suquamish Chief
What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, and they kept their cultures alive.
When the only possible “victory” was survival, they survived.
In this brilliant follow up to Turtle Island, esteemed academic Eldon Yellowhorn and award-winning author Kathy Lowinger team up again, this time to tell the stories of what Indigenous people did when invaders arrived on their homelands. What the Eagle Sees shares accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered in Indigenous history from a vastly under-represented perspective—an Indigenous viewpoint.
*A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Awards
- Joint winner, Best Books of the Year List, Quill & Quire 2019
- Joint winner, Best of 2019 List, Book Links 2019
- Joint winner, Nerdies Award 2019
- Joint winner, Best Books List, CBC Books 2019
- Joint winner, Top 30 Choices for Classrooms, Booklist 2020
- Joint winner, Kirkus Reviews Best Books 2019
- Short-listed, Foreword INDIES Book Awards 2020
- Short-listed, Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize 2020
- Runner-up, Nautilus Book Awards, Silver 2020
- Joint winner, Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold 2020
- Short-listed, Red Cedar Book Award 2020
- Joint winner, Skipping Stones Honor Award 2020
- Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award 2021