The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American InheritanceAn award winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant familys origins. Her great great grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century,

It's a tall tale with deep roots

We used to be from New York

A personal account from the state’s first female Indian lawyer

Like some other Native American teens on Montana reservations

this elementary grammar of Lakota

he teams up with his uncle Wayne - a master of aboriginal martial arts - to drive the stranger from the Reserve

and he knows immediately where he is--and what it will take to escape

but her mother barely recognizes her

As with all of his books

The nursery rhymes

But what did they see

Shalan Joudry