By Lisa Iesse Writer ONEIDA NATION OF THE THAMES- “The Adventures of Jay and Gizmo” author Kristi White is empowering Indigenous children to reclaim their cultural and language sovereignty. “(‘Jay and Gizmo’) goes towards supporting a whole movement of uplifting and supporting Indigenous children to be able to connect, to be able to get literacy skills, to feel like they belong no matter where they end up,” White told Turtle Island News. White is from the Oneida Nation of the Thames. Back in 1969, Chief Virginia Summers, who is her great aunt, advocated for a community library there. Yet decades later during White’s youth, the community remained without a library, and without other necessities like clean drinking water. White explains these are critical resources the community is still being denied

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