Jen Loren

📚COVER REVEAL!📚 I am beyond excited to bring you the long overdue book about our great great Aunt Ruth Muskrat Bronson. Long overdue because Aunt Ruth was an absolute force, a change maker, and not many people, especially outside of Indian Country, know who she was and what she did. To me, she is an inspiration. I only hope this book brings her the recognition she deserves and serves as an inspiration for many others. We need more brave leaders like her, especially now. Beautifully illustrated by sister the 2025 Caldecott Medal winner .studio this book is a dream come true. Please preorder your copy today! Swipe ➡️ for the QR code!🙏 OR buy it on Amazon here:

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From Caldecott Medalist Rebecca Lee Kunz and award-winning filmmaker and TV host Jen Loren comes a sweeping biography of a singular woman at the heart of the movement for Native American civil rights in the 20th century.
The “Indian Problem”―that was the term used by the government in the 19th and 20th centuries. What to do with the hundreds of Native nations and tribes in and around the United States? When the goal wasn’t destruction, it was assimilation.
But Native people had their own plans―and one Cherokee woman, Ruth Muskrat Bronson, helped lead that charge. A poet, educator, and activist, Ruth knew that Native Americans could and should fight for their civil rights while still retaining their tribal identities. Speaking in front of the President to gain Native citizenship, penning groundbreaking poems and books, founding and leading the National Congress of American Indians, she left a legacy that still blazes brightly today.
Sisters Rebecca Lee Kunz and Jen Loren―both nieces of Ruth and citizens of the Cherokee Nation―bring that legacy and the wider story of the Native American civil rights movement to richly imagined life. Also wado to for the cover reveal!

Cherokee Nation's post-removal education story is showcased in a new documentary produced by Cherokee Film, now spotlighted by the Cherokee Phoenix. The documentary can be streamed on Cherokee Nation's official YouTube channel. Cherokee Film Cherokee Phoenix Cherokee Nation

New documentary takes closer look at post-removal education A new documentary from the Cherokee Nation explores the legacy and generational impact of post-removal seminaries established for young Cherokees in the mid-1800s.

I didn’t get here alone. Every person who showed up for me, taught me, listened and supported my big ideas, who spoke up, or simply believed that our communities and our stories are worth fighting for, is a part of my story. Now, this story will be featured in the Imagine Your Impact catalog, a new interactive experience at the Presidential Center. This experience is proof that community leadership is quietly and persistently changing the world. I am deeply grateful to be included in a rotating line up of changemaker stories, and I hope it moves you the way their stories have moved me. The Obama Presidential Center opens in June. If you are in Chicago, go experience it for yourself and explore how everyday people — like you and me — can create meaningful change in our world.

Take action! Tell your reps to overturn Stitt’s veto! Save OETA!

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. releases a statement urging the Oklahoma Legislature to protect OETA.