by Kim Sigafus
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE
childmind.org
The Child Mind Institute is an independent, national nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders. Its objectives are to deliver the highest standards of care, advance the science of the developing brain, and empower parents, professionals, and policymakers to support children whenever and wherever they need it most.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KIM SIGAFUS is an award-winning Ojibwa writer and Illinois Humanities Road Scholar speaker. She has coauthored two 7th Generation books in the Native Trailblazers series of biographies, including Native Elders: Sharing Their Wisdom and the award-winning Native Writers: Voices of Power. Her fiction work includes The Mida, an eight-volume series about a mystically powerful time-traveling carnival owned by an Ojibwa woman. Kim’s family is from the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. She resides with her husband in Freeport, Illinois. For more information, visit kimberlysigafus.com.
