My Life: Growing Up Native in America

My Life: Growing Up Native in AmericaA moving collection of twenty powerful essays, poems, and more that capture and celebrate the modern Native American experience, featuring entries by Angeline Boulley, Madison Hammond, Kara Roselle Smith, and many more. With heart, pathos, humor, and insight, twenty renowned writers, performers, athletes, and activists explore what it means to be Native American today. Through a series of essays and poems, these luminaries give voice to their

Erdrich writes

who formed the touring group the Native Ladies of Comedy

Boldt pointedly waited until Lincoln's birthday to hand down a decision recognizing the tribes' right to half of the state's fish

she’s just another missing Native girl

During his visit with the Lake Superior Ojibwa in 1855

Mari Kurisato

a magazine writer visiting on assignment

550 Dakota Verbs provides students of Dakota - and the Lakota and Nakota dialects - the proper conjugations for 550 verbs from adi (to step or walk on) to zo (to whistle)

Álvarez forges a new relationship with the land

unraveling its complicity in settler colonialism

A bear and her cub

like the women gathered here