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Elizabeth Blair

'Like a living scrapbook': 'My Powerful Hair' is a celebration of Native culture

Carole Lindstrom's new book My Powerful Hair features illustrations by Steph Littlebird. (Abrams Books)

My Powerful Hair is a new picture book that turns a painful truth about racism into a celebration of Native culture.

When Carole Lindstrom was a little girl growing up in Bellevue, Nebraska, she really wanted long hair. She would put the blanket she had as a baby on her head and, "pretend I had long hair, you know, swing it around," she laughs.

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