Chooch Helped (Levine Querido, $18.99) is a universal story about an older sibling learning to make space for a new child. Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation) tells the story, and Rebecca Lee Kunz’s (Cherokee Nation) art shows a Cherokee family practicing their cultural traditions.

The picture book tells the story of how a young Cherokee girl introduces her younger brother to family traditions.

On November 1, at 5:00 pm, Rogers and Kunz will present a reading of the book, along with a Q&A and signing, at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Art prints from the book will also be available for sale and refreshments will be served.

Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee Nation) is a Creative Writing instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Previously published works include When We Gather (Heartdrum). Rogers’ YA collection of short horror stories, Man Made Monsters, received six starred reviews and won the Walter Dean Myers Award for Teens. Her newest novel is The Art Thieves, an Indian Territory Futurism. She lives in Fayetteville, AR, and can be found at andrealrogers.com

Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee Nation) grew up in Oklahoma and went on to earn a BFA in painting from the College of Santa Fe. She is an artist and the owner of Tree of Life Studio in Santa Fe, NM, where she runs her business and lives with her husband and raises three daughters. Her work draws upon tribal iconography and is greatly inspired by mythic and archetypal symbolism. Learn more about Kuns at Tree of Life Studio.

For more information, please contact Elissa Wheeler at elissa.wheeler@iaia.edu.