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@ndngirlsbookclub 🌷
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Hi!!! We are already making SO much progress on our campaign for a bookmobile, about 20% of the way there…but we still have a ways to go! From this point on, every 10k will bring on a new challenge for the BOOKCLUB team — ice baths, hair dye, PRIZESSSSS!!!!

We are ready for this dream of ours to become a reality and to reach every community we can <3

PLEASE share, donate if you can - every little bit helps, and stay tuned for what’s in store on this journey 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

https://givebutter.com/ndngirlsbookmobile

#education #literature #indigenous #book #nonprofitorganization by @herculilz

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Grandma you’re scaring me 😭 but ok 🫡

#indigenous #bookstore #grandma #ndngirlsbookclub #nativelit #indigenouslit #books taken in House of Anansi Press by @herculilz

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We are so grateful for the enthusiasm and love from today’s feature on the Today Show. A huge thank you to @jennasheinelle for the thoughtful conversations about the importance of storytelling, reading diverse books, and uplifting our youth as emerging voices and leaders.

How many books/ authors could you spot on the segment? 😂 @marcierendon @makwa_giniw @birchbark_books @byoungwrites just to name a few!

How to support our work:
⭐️ Our website has so many amazing learning modules, workshops, and links to authors, Indigenous booksellers, and exciting programs available nationally. Check it out! www.ndngirlsbookclub.org ✨🫶

⭐️ Donate to our BOOKMOBILE! Designed by the incredible @kelseymatafoote 💫✨
🔗 in bio: https://givebutter.com/ndngirlsbookmobile

⭐️ Celebrate Indigenous peoples, stories, authors, and children every single day. Read a book with a loved one! Tell a story today around a meal. What makes you excited to express yourself? ✍🏽 💕📚✨🫶

If you enjoyed any of the merch you saw 😉 that’s on the website too. All proceeds support our free book distributions. And our Bookmobile will hit the road Spring 2027. Rain or shine! 💫🪶🙏

See you at Book Club! Happy IPD! #indigenouspeoplesday #ndngirlsbookclub #ndn by @herculilz

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Creating change one book at a time! 💗📚 Jenna and Sheinelle surprised best friends Kinsale Drake and Lily Painter with a donation from HarperCollins Publishers of 1,000 books by Indigenous authors. Drake and Painter will distribute the books as part of their NDN Girls Book Club. #JennaSheinelle by @herculilz

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Happy IPD every single day🩷🫶📚✨

Tomorrow around 10:30am EST (subject to local stations’ timing!!), our interview will air on the Today Show (@todayshow @jennasheinelle)!💕 Aho, ahxéhee’, gunalchéesh, wado for all of the support and love. 40,000 free books and counting! Not a renaissance. A Glittering World of stories by Indigenous people📚💕✨

Donate to our bookmobile here!! https://givebutter.com/ndngirlsbookmobile

Shop our online store!! Ships on demand 🛍️ https://www.bonfire.com/store/ndn-girls-book-club/

You can also shop any of our collaborations to help support our programming, including our capsule launch with HOSH (@hoshartists), in-person at Relative Arts (@relativeartsnyc) in NY, and our STORIES WOVEN IN BLOOM blanket with Eighth Generation (@eighthgeneration)!

See you at Book Club🩷✨🫶💫 #ndngirlsbookclub #nativelit #indigenouspeoplesday

💕❣️🤍💓💘💝💟🩵❤️‍🔥🩷 taken in Lenapehoking by @herculilz

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October 5th: STORIES WOVEN IN BLOOM arrives 💕🫶✨🩵

9am PT, Monday, Oct. 5th @eighthgeneration
Via @nativenewsonline:
“The NDN Girls Book Club and Eighth Generation are bringing together Indigenous art, storytelling and literacy through a new blanket collaboration designed to celebrate Native communities and support Indigenous youth.

The “Stories Woven in Bloom” blanket was created by artist Jenabah Yazzie in collaboration with the NDN Girls Book Club and Eighth Generation. The 100% wool blanket features artwork inspired by Kiowa and Diné motifs and centers on themes of storytelling, kinship and coming together.”

This collaboration is part of a broader effort to support literacy and representation by increasing access to Indigenous stories, art and literature for Native youth and communities. It also creates an opportunity to celebrate Indigenous voices and encourage young people to see themselves and their communities reflected in the stories and artwork around them.

#ndngirlsbookclub #eighthgeneration #nativemade #nativelit #weneeddiversebooks by @herculilz

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Hi all! Popping in to amplify something super important in the conversation of mental health: The experiences of Indigenous youth often aren’t part of the mental health research and one of the main contributing factors for that is because of a lack of sufficient data

This is your chance to change that!

There is currently a national survey happening about your health experiences. It is confidential and will take between 23 and 30 minutes. You will be compensated for your time with a reward of a $10 gift card mailed to the address you provide!

Your participation is completely voluntary. You can choose whether or not to take the survey, and can stop taking it at any time!

I encourage all of you to please sit down and help us close the gap in data (it was EXTREMELY low the last go around) —

You can take the survey here! : https://bit.ly/3W3xtz7 by @herculilz

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women in GLAMmaxxing recently (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) & grateful to do it surrounded by such amazing + supportive souls :^) taken in Nashville, Tennessee by @herculilz

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What everyone wore to @santafeindianmarket this weekend, Part 1!!! 🔥

Looks from:
@allieyoung13, @melguerrer0, @ryanbreezy2, @herculilz, @darklistedphotography, @cole.forrest.art, @pocahontess by @herculilz

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Free books, shirts, and goodies for everyone 💗✨📚💕🌈 we had a lovely time at the Keres Children’s Learning Center in Cochiti Pueblo. We’re clean out of books! Thank you💕💕💕 @kclc_imi taken in New Mexico by @herculilz

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Surprise… 💕🌱 Due to interest, limited numbers of our Ethereal Connections graduation stole created by Eighth Generation (@eighthgeneration) will be available at our pop-up book giveaway & launch at Dineh + Co. this Friday, 11am-3pm 💕✨🌈🌱📚💗🫧

621 Canyon Road
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