By SABAT ALI, age 9 MARISA HIRSCHFIELD, age 11 MARIANNE NACANAYNAY, age 13 AMIA McDONALD, age 11 TANYA PORCARI, age 12 MADISON ROBERTS, age 12 and IndyKids Staff Introduction by MARIANNE MACANAYNAY, age 13 Across the globe, indigenous people, the original, native...
By SOPHIA ROTHMAN, age 12 The average size of a solitary confinement cell is smaller than the average size of a parking space. PHOTO: Wolfram Burner/Flickr In the United States, at least 80,000 people are imprisoned in solitary confinement at this moment. Solitary...
By EVANGELINE COMEAU-KIRSCHNER, age 10 PHOTO: Taté Walker Meet Taté Walker, Editor of Native Peoples magazine. As a Lakota woman, Taté advocates for many issues, including fair and accurate media representation, to uplift Native American communities. Evangeline...
By SADIE PRICE-ELLIOTT, age 13 Sadie speaks with Qalvy Grainzvolt, youth leader and clergyman at the Shinnyo Center. PHOTO: Jonathan Tupas On September 20, I attended the Shinnyo Lantern Floating for Peace ceremony, a day organized by the Shinnyo-en organization and...
By RIDA ALI, age 11 PHOTO: Eleanor Hedges Duroy Eleanor Hedges Duroy, age 12, has been writing for IndyKids since 2012. Rida Ali: What made you want to write for IndyKids? Eleanor Hedges Duroy: In general I really like to write and place my thoughts down on paper and...
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