Kaasteek - The Silent Drum

In a coastal Tlingit village where every tide has an old name and every cedar carries memory, twelve-year-old Kaasteek is gifted a copper drum that refuses to sing. The elders expect visions. The children expect magic. Kaasteek expects to fail quietly, the way she always does.

As new rules and changing worlds press in on her community, Kaasteek must find the courage to speak her language aloud before silence takes its place. Guided by humor, grief, ancestors, and the land she belongs to, Kaa...