Cekpa: A Memoir in Beaded Essays

Cekpa: A Memoir in Beaded EssaysFor Leah Altman, growing up as an adoptee outside of her culture meant growing up without her cekpa, the Lakota connection to family and homeland. Now an adult, Leah departs her life in Portland, Oregon, to seek out her birth family and reconnect to her heritage each chapter of her journey a bead in this literary cekpa crafted for her own children. Born "Baby Girl Blackfeather," Leah Altman was separated from her birth family through placement by the

People had built dams along the Klamath River

Rifkin illustrates how time plays a crucial role in Indigenous peoples' expressions of sovereignty and struggles for self-determination

her loving husband

and relationships in Dakota history

astonishment

they now must either survive on their own or die trying

A member of the Tlicho Dene First Nation

In the summer of 2020

and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination

Cheese's drives a spear into the stereotype of Native American stoicism

the project follows relationships between Indigenous authors and artists across the United States and beyond borders

during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd