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Yiłta! Book Tour Recap
Over 10,000 Free Books by Indigenous Authors Given to Families in Navajo & Hopi Communities
SBi Giving Foundation Launches in a BIG WAY—making history with a first-of-its-kind book drop tour promoting Native authors and helping families in this book desert to build in-home libraries.
What is pink, has four wheels and contains millions of words? A massive pink truck filled with more than 10,000 Native books for people of all ages traveling across the Navajo and Hopi nations.
NDN Book Club partnered with the SBi Giving Foundation to distribute books, goodies and literary entertainment to areas across the Navajo and Hopi reservations — often called book deserts — April 1-5. The pink truck, nicknamed Pinky the Rezmobile by the NDN girls, was emblazoned with a graphic of a Native girl reading under a rainbow on its sides with the words “Yiłta! Book Drop” meaning, “I read it!”
Navajo Nation Vice President Richelle Montoya, Miss Navajo Nation Amy N. Reeves-Begaye and performer Radmilla Cody helped kickoff the Yiłta! tour at the Navajo Nation Library in Window Rock, April 1. The tour continued across the state to the Hopi Public Library in Kykotsmovi and Leupp Chapter House, April 2, Tuba City, April 3, Monument Valley, April 4, and finished up at the Diné College Library in Shiprock, New Mexico, April 5.
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