NDN Girls Book Club returns home with bookmobile secured
Navajo Times | Krista Allen
Kinsale Drake, left, and her mother, Mabelle Drake Hueston, hold a portrait of Hueston’s parents, the late Harold N. Drake Sr. and Stella Begay Drake, during the 58th annual Ééhániih Day celebration Saturday, Aug. 1, in Navajo Mountain, Ariz.
NAVAJO MOUNTAIN, Ariz.
Kinsale Drake returned to Ééhániih Day with the kinds of gifts she remembers receiving there as a child, this time handing out backpacks and books while announcing that NDN Girls Book Club had secured a bookmobile.
Drake, the organization’s founder and director, is Nát’oh Dine’é Táchii’nii and born for Bilagáana. Her maternal grandfather is ‘Áshįįhí and her paternal grandfather is Bilagáana. She is the daughter of Mabelle Drake Hueston and John Hueston.
The organization is finishing its fundraising to wrap the vehicle before it begins traveling to remote communities with thousands of books and other reading materials.
“We just secured a bookmobile, so we’re going to be able to get books to more remote areas and bring thousands of books at once,” Drake said.
Navajo Times | Krista Allen
Children and adults browse books at the NDN Girls Book Club table during the 58th annual Ééhániih Day celebration Saturday, Aug. 1, in Navajo Mountain, Ariz.
The NDN Girls Book Club is a literary nonprofit that holds free workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, editing and zine-making. The group also organizes Native literature and author talks, supports Native booksellers and sends free books and literary care packages.
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