The Wisdom Our Children Carry

Name: The Wisdom Our Children Carry
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ISBN: 9781969075223

It Opens When We Recognize Our Gifts

Tyrese Gould Jacinto

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Tyrese Gould Jacinto
05 April 2026

Educational strategies & policy

What if the problem was never the child, but the system that failed to recognize the child's wisdom? The Wisdom Our Children Carry: It Opens When We Recognize Our Gifts is a spiritually grounded, research-informed reflection on the learning styles of Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. In this deeply personal and generational work, Tyrese Gould Jacinto brings together lived experience, family memory, educational research, and spiritual understanding to explore how many of our people have been misunderstood, mislabeled, and overlooked in modern schooling. This book challenges narrow ideas of intelligence and offers a more human vision of learning, one rooted in relationship, observation, meaning, sensory awareness, and the whole of life. It speaks to parents, educators, caregivers, and all readers who want to better understand the gifts children carry. Written for the author's grandchildren and for future generations, this book is both a call for recognition and a celebration of the depth, dignity, and sacred intelligence our people have always known.

By: Tyrese Gould Jacinto
Imprint: Tyrese Gould Jacinto
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 100g
ISBN: 9781969075223
ISBN 10: 1969075228
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 05 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tyrese Gould Jacinto is an award-winning Indigenous author, artist, and cultural educator whose work is rooted in creativity, spiritual understanding, and a lifelong commitment to cultural presence and community care. She is the author of 23 published books spanning children's literature, reflective writing, and spiritually grounded storytelling. Her work has been recognized through honors including the 2026 Heritage Fellowship, the 2025 NJ Women of Achievement Award, the 2025 Environmental Award, the 2024 NAWBOSJ Diversity Advocate recognition, and the 2021 Master Artist distinction. Across her writing, visual art, and photography, she offers work that affirms identity, uplifts future generations, and reflects a deep relationship with meaning, beauty, and the living world. The Wisdom Our Children Carry: It Opens When We Recognize Our Gifts stands within this larger body of work as a heartfelt and research-informed offering on learning, dignity, and the wisdom our people carry.