Thomas D. Peacock

Thomas D. Peacock is a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe (Ojibwe). Several of his books have won awards, including: Ojibwe Waasa Inaabida (Minnesota Book Award), The Good Path (Minnesota Book Award), The Seventh Generation (Children's Multicultural Book Award - National Assn. Multicultural Education). The Wolf's Trail was One Book Northland 2023, and fiction book for 2020 by the Minnesota Library Assn. He has other books, including: Collected Wisdom (with Linda Miller Cleary), The Seventh Generation (with Amy Bergstrom and Linda Miller Cleary), and edited another, A Forever Story: The People and History of the Fond du Lac Reservation; To Be Free (on racism, intended for middle and high schoolers from Afton Press) was released in 2010. The Tao of Nookomis (North Star Press) was released in 2016 and won Honorable Mention (second place) at the NE Minnesota Book Awards. The Forever Sky, an illustrated children's book, was released in 2019 by Minnesota Historical Society Press. Forever Sky was given a prestigious Kirkus star review. His other books are The Four Hills of Life (Mn Historical Society Press), The Dancers, published by KDP, Beginnings: The Homeward Journey of Donovan Manypenny (Holy! Cow Press), Walking Softly (Dovetailed Press), and In Whispers (Dovetailed Press). He has an upcoming book, The Naming of Aki (Minnesota Historical Society Press). He is co-owner with his wife Elizabeth Albert Peacock, of Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing, specializing in Native children's books written by Native authors and using Native illustrators.