Heather's Reviews > Meet Christopher: An Osage Indian Boy from Oklahoma

Genevieve Simermeyer introduces us to her first cousin once removed, Christopher Cote, an eleven-year-old boy of the Osage tribe. We get to follow Christopher as he plays with his three brothers, goes to school, attends church, takes Osage language classes, makes dinner for his family, and participates in the traditional I'n-lon-shka dances in his colorful Osage regalia. The book is part of the My World: Young Native Americans Today series published by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, a great introduction for kids on what it is like to be a Native American child in contemporary society. I wish that my teachers in elementary school had been able to introduce us to a book like this one--it might have helped me understand at the time that Native Americans are still very much a part of our modern world representing a wide diversity of cultures, and not just some people who used to live in longhouses and weave baskets.