It takes Nina years to translate the story using Lipan and Jicarilla Apache dictionaries to create her own digital translators. However, due to generational language loss, neither Nina nor her family know the language the recorded story is preserved in. Nina records her grandmother on her deathbed telling a story in her native language. It is a story that itself revolves around stories, told throughout the novel by Nina. The story stars Nina, a Lipan Apache girl who tells stories online and Oli, cottonmouth boy trying to find a place to belong, set against the backdrop of climate catastrophe. “A Snake Falls to Earth” by Darcie Little Badger is a young adult novel about the intertwining lives of an Indigenous child and a young snake. To learn more about her research, check out her website on archival ethics and Indigenous materials. She is also an avid reader and writer of young adult literature. Her research pertains to ethical considerations in the use and distribution of Indigenous oral histories. Evangeline Giaconia (she/her) is a master's student in museum studies at the University of Florida.
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