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They also, like so many Americans of all origins, wanted something more from their lives and their country than simply the chance to get rich.
David Treuer • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
Native organizing, like the organization of the African American desegregation and voting rights movement, developed within the context of a nationalistic anticommunist ideology that intensified with the Cold War and nuclear arms race in the 1950s.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
In all, 113 tribal nations suffered the disaster of termination; 1.4 million acres of tribal land was lost. Wealth flowed to private corporations, while many people in terminated tribes died early, in poverty. Not one tribe profited.
Louise Erdrich • The Night Watchman: A Novel
Although his health was failing, Catlin yearned to be far away in nature, to capture rawer and more real depictions of humanity. He packed a gun, several canvases, a few paintbrushes, and headed west. Catlin would spend the next six years traveling thousands of miles throughout the Great Plains, covering more distance than Lewis and Clark to docume
... See moreJames Nestor • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
But you will not by any means listen to [any] overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected. . . . Our future security will be in their inability to injure us . . . and in the terror with which the severity of the chastisement they receive will inspire [them].”
David Treuer • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
If only he could have convinced the Indian boy that there was no better way for it to have gone, Pratt’s attempted deliverance of the Indians from themselves to themselves, no better plan for America, no better plan for the Indians, no better plan, there was no better plan than that, he said to no one, and faced the wall, and died. Pratt would late
... See moreTommy Orange • Wandering Stars
The extraordinary women of the Grandmothers Council were first drawn together by an American woman named Jeneane Prevatt (who goes by the name Jyoti). Her doctoral studies had taken her to the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, where she became interested in the contributions indigenous traditions could make in “helping people to discover their innate
... See moreCarol Schaefer • Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet
Nanabozhoo is the Anishinaabeg culture hero and trickster figure who uses primal fire to ignite the Sun.