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Jenee Darden is a freelance writer who lives in Los Angeles, Calif.

Jackie Brown teaches at Parkview Elementary School in Bellinghamn, Wash.

Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs is a freelance writer who lives in South Euclid, Ohio.

Nirvi Shah is a freelance writer who lives in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Kelley Dawson Salas teaches fourth grade at La Escuela Fratney in Milwaukee, Wisc., and is an editor of Rethinking Schools.

Montana writer and poet Jennifer Greene was teaching college students before she got her first real look at the history of the Flathead Reservation and how her ancestors, the Bitteroot Salish people, came to live there. In her fiction and poetry — including this story — she often puts herself in the place of those ancestors, recreating their voices.