The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870

The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870Drawing on a wide array of historical sources, Theresa L. Weller provides a comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy four members of the Agatha Biddle band in 1870. A highly unusual Native and Mtis community, the band included just eight men but sixty six women. Agatha Biddle was a member of the band from its first enumeration in 1837 and became its chief in the early 1860s. Also, unlike most other bands, which were typically made up of

His earlier books have revealed the ecology of Indigenous education and the relations of Indigenous science to Eurocentric (or Western) science

Rebecca Roanhorse

These stories bring people together

the little boy sets the table with cookies while Grandpa pours the milk

author of Original Local: Indigenous Foods

In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West

no matter what disaster strikes

As a teacher at Sinte Gleska University in South Dakota

Adams also argues that many of those who seemingly cooperated with the system were more than passive players in this drama

by her words

What he finds is the Great Snapping Turtle blocking the water of the Mother Spring

Riggs also provides an ethnographic overview of various aspects of Dakota culture and history that enhances the value of the book to all students of Dakota