About Us
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Founded in 2018, Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing is an Indigenous owned company that publishes fiction and non-fiction paperback books, many with reading levels K-12, on Indigenous topics serving libraries, schools and communities. To date, we've published 60 titles.
This upcoming year (2026) we've decided to focus on a collaborative publishing effort with Room to Read, an international foundation that publishes books for underprivileged communities to promote literacy. We're producing seven books representing the Dine' (Navajo), Cherokee, Choctaw, Inupiaq, Ojibwe, Native Hawaiian and Oceti Sakowin (Dakota, Lakota, Nakota) people of North America and the Hawaiian Islands. All the books are being written and illustrated by Indigenous authors and artists. Most will be bilingual. The books will be available FREE OF CHARGE to the Indigenous communities served by the books. We'll sell them retail to the wider community to recover our effort and costs. As a result of of our work with Room to Read we have given the publishing rights to most of our previously published books back to the authors. So, the books we will be selling in 2026 are primarily books we, as owners, have written. |
Who We Are |
Thomas Peacock is a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. He has co-authored/authored books on Ojibwe history and culture, education, fiction and racism.
Elizabeth Albert-Peacock is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. She was a faculty member in the Education Department of the University of Minnesota Duluth for many years. She has authored numerous children's books. |
Interest |
To work with Indigenous authors and illustrators in developing and publishing books using their voice and their art to promote cultural literacy for everyone.
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