“Even though we live in places far from each other we have a lot in common,” said Goade “Do you like to fish?”

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“It’s really important for Native kids to see this is even a career option,” Goade said “Or even that storytelling can look like this in contemporary day and age, because that wasn’t going on when I was a kid.”

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“No matter who you are and what you do, most likely there’s a children’s book you remember from when you were a kid,” Goade said “it’s cool to think someday my books will be that for people.”

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