Weshoyot Alvitre is an author and illustrator from the Tongva tribe of Southern California. She currently resides with her husband and two children on Ventureno Chumash Territory in Ventura, California. Her work focuses on Indigenous voices on projects from children’s books to adult market graphic novels. Most recently, these include Ghost River: The Fall & Rise of the Conestoga, written by Lee Francis 4 and edited by Will Fenton; At the Mountain’s Base, written by Traci Sorell; and the video game When Rivers Were Trails, for which she was art director. She enjoys spinning yarn and collecting antiques.
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First printing September 2021
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Dan SaSuWeh Jones’s author photo by Andreas Dick
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