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Paul Goble is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 30 children's books. Goble's life-long fascination with Native Americans of the plains began during his childhood when he became intrigued with their spirituality and culture. His illustrations accurately depict Native American clothing, customs and surroundings in brilliant color and detail. Goble researches ancient stories and retells them for his young audience in a manner sympathetic to Native American ways. Mr. Goble has authored or contributed to the following World Wisdom titles:

• Red Cloud’s War: Brave Eagle’s Account of the Fetterman Fight (author/illustrator)
• Horse Raid: The Making of a Warrior (author/illustrator)
• Custer’s Last Battle: Red Hawk’s Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (author/illustrator)
• The Man Who Dreamed of Elk-Dogs (author/illustrator)
• The Woman who Lived with Wolves & Other Stories from the Tipi (author/illustrator)
• The Boy and His Mud Horses: And Other Stories from the Tipi (author/illustrator)
• The Earth Made New: Plains Indian Stories of Creation (author/illustrator)
• Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters (author/illustrator)
• All Our Relatives: Traditional Native American Thoughts about Nature (author/illustrator)
• The "Foreword" to The Gospel of the Redman: Commemorative Edition, by Ernest Thompson Seton
• "Remembering Marco Pallis" in The Way and the Mountain: Tibet, Buddhism, & Tradition, by Marco Pallis

Joseph Bruchac is a well-known Native author and storyteller who has written more than 120 books for both children and adults. His work is heavily influenced by his Abenaki ancestry, and he has worked extensively with other family members on projects involving the preservation of Abenaki culture and language. (The Abenaki are a tribe of traditionally Algonquian-speaking peoples of northeastern North America.) Dr. Joseph Bruchac has contributed two children’s books to our Wisdom Tales Press imprint: A Peacemaker for Warring Nations: The Founding of the Iroquois League (April 2021), illustrated by David Kanietakeron Fadden, and The Hunter’s Promise: An Abenaki Tale (September 2015), which was illustrated by Bill Farnsworth. Dr. Bruchac also contributed “Forewords” to the books Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature, edited by Michael and Joseph A. Fitzgerald, and Horse Raid: The Making of a Warrior, told and illustrated by Paul Goble.