Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education

Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and EducationSometimes the losses of childhood can be recovered only in the flight of the dragonfly. Native American children have long been subject to removal from their homes for placement in residential schools and, more recently, in foster or adoptive homes. The governments of both the United States and Canada, having reduced Native nations to the legal status of dependent children, historically have asserted a surrogate parentalism over Native children

represent ancient teachings of his people and remind those who gaze on the work

Through the Aanjibimaadizing Project

ranging from personal history to cultural teachings

One summer in the 1980s

repetition

the traffic of DNA through body parts and bones

living with the earth instead of on the earth

people can heal the sick

Black humor mingles with magic

American Indian medicine ways and spiritual power remain vital today

Dakota history did not begin with the U

a novel so prescient that though it conjures an alternate reality