Beyond Boundaries · Essays and Tidbits From Nancy Bo Flood
In my book Cowboy Up! Ride the Navajo Rodeo, I salute Bill Pickett, the fearless cowboy of Cherokee and African American descent.
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I had a lovely experience again this year at the Tucson Festival of Books. So well organized and so many people to talk with about BOOKS!
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I first met Rose when she was a student in a graduate level children’s literature class I was teaching for Northern Arizona University on the Navajo Nation. I wondered why Rose was seeking special certification in reading when she already had her master’s degree and probably was near retirement age.
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I had a wonderful time visiting with librarians, the vitality of the book world, and presenting about poetry with Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell. And then there were the other authors I met, the rock stars!
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Rodeo entrants choose steel-toed cowboy boots for maximum protection against large-hoofed animals. That’s just the start of the many differences in cowboy boots. Different boots are made for different cowboy…
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Ever since writing Cowboy Up! Ride the Navajo Rodeo, I’ve been amazed at discovering so many rodeo hotspots I had never imagined. The 24th Panaewa Stampede Rodeo graced Hawaii’s Big…
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Oglala Sioux Tribal member Jordan “Slick” Phelps is a two-time bull riding world champion. All this by age 19? This competitor started at age FOUR. Cowboy up!
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With Sylvia Vardell, Janet Wong and librarians Ally Garcia and Marianne Follis, I was part of the “Cultural Connections: Celebrating Diversity with Picture Books and Poetry” presentation at the Public Library Association conference in Denver in April 2016. Sylvia and Janet are poetic wonders I’m proud to team with.
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The first day of spring previews another notable date for me. The Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons debuted April 1, 2006. Happy 10th anniversary to a title I’m proud…
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Every drop counts. That’s a simple, profound message about water’s future. Colgate should be commended for efforts to educate and inspire. For example, Colgate notes that 1 in 10 people…
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Raising the height of Shasta Dam means a 13 percent growth in California’s Shasta Lake. This supposed solution to create more freshwater resource for farms and cities will wipe out…
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Can you see water pollution on the move? Activist John Heim does. Heim has documented what he calls “the black line of death” moving from Florida’s Lake Okeechobee to the…
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