M.L. Smoker

High Plains Book Awards this weekend! Thunderous is nominated in the Indigenous Writer and Children's Middle Grade categories. Wish us luck! #thunderousgraphicnovel highplainsbookawards.org

"Harlem, your hotel is overnamed, your children are raggedy-assed but you go on." @wiyasha performs a poem by the great James Welch, who passed away on this day in 2003, in a film made with @TippetRise. brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/harlem-m…

@MrsAWills MT OPI will also have a lesson plan with an interview I did available soon!

My great grandparents and their grandparents understood the reciprocal nature of being in right relationship with the land... poems.com/features/what-…

@DLajimodiere Indigenous poet laureates unite. 👊🏽

A moment. Rarified air. So humbled. Thank you, #universityofmontana

@DLajimodiere 👋🏽👊🏽🙌🏽

ictnews.org/news/universit… Yes! Found another Native female 2023 commencement speaker ❤️💯👍👏

"We need no runners here. Booze is law and all the Indians drink in the best tavern. Money is free if you're poor enough." M. L. Smoker (@wiyasha) performs a James Welch poem in our collaboration with @TippetRise and @POETSorg, Above Strands of Earth. brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/harlem-m…

Humbled. Overwhelmed. I think of the past and the future, of trauma & survivance. I tell myself, we are allowed to take up space. I am grateful to so many, for so much - pinamaya - you know who you are. "They'll never silence the voice of the voiceless." umt.edu/news/2023/03/0…

@MerriamWebster In my Indigneous language, Assiniboine, the word for grizzly bear, wakan sija, translates to bad holy thing.

Non-native English Speakers, what’s a word from your language that you think is perfect that doesn’t have an English equivalent? Take us to church.

SXSW EDU 2023 Schedule schedule.sxswedu.com/2023/events/PP…

"When I first began to write poems I was laying claim to battle." M. L. Smoker performs her poem "Another Attempt at Rescue" in the fourth film in our new collaboration with @TippetRise and @POETSorg, Above Strands of Earth. brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/another-…

Excited to be in Elko this week, alongside Joy Harjo, Henry Real Bird and nila northsun. elkodaily.com/lifestyles/cow…

@LBeatty23 @donisdope Powerful. 👊🏽

I hope this film spurs conversations around depression/mental health/grief. I also hope it stirs something in you to find what makes life worth living, even for a moment, and to realize how much more you can love your people. You can watch it now on Lakotabeatty.com

A new graphic novel by two University of Montana alumni aims to address the lack of Native American representation in children's literature. nbcmontana.com/news/local/um-…

@pramsey342 Our favorite family holiday movie!

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something unpleasant after a period of relief.

Thunderous is a Scholastic book now! I always loved when the book fair came each year when I was in school and now our book will be amongst all the other wonderful gems kids can pick up. Woot!🥳 Check out Paperback Book: Thunderous shop.scholastic.com/parent-ecommer… via @Scholastic

'Each step is one moment, a star, a memory we carry and use to write the story of our lives, of our hopes and our future' #wearearestillhere #indigenouspeoplesday #thunderousgraphicnovel

Check us out this week on Montana Public Radio's the Write Question! @NataliePeeterse #thunderousgraphicnovel