Book Drop Nourishes Native Youth

KIMBERLY BLAESER

Start with 10,200 books, one big pink truck, five days in April, and six locations spread out across the “book desert” of the Navajo Nation. Add a covey of young Native creatives and mix in the special magic of giving back, and the result is an epic journey—Book Drop 2024—that delivered free books (and shoes, socks, stickers, zines, and bracelets) to Hopi and Navajo youth and their families. “Physical books are not the most accessible things on the reservation,” says Amber McCrary, one of the project’s volunteers. McCrary, who heads the Indigenous publisher Abalone Mountain Press, knows this from experience, having grown up in Tuba City on the reservation. “When you are living on the rez and income is limited, your family is going to choose money for food over…

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