Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past

Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota PastOne day I realized that my entire back seat was filled with relatives who wondered why I wasn't paying more attention to their part of the family story Sooner or later they all come up to the front seat and whisper stories in my ear. Growing up in the 1950s in suburban Minneapolis, Diane Wilson had a family like everybody else. Her Swedish American father was a salesman at Sears and her mother drove her brothers to baseball practice and went to parent

particularly in the context of settler colonialism in the United States

Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle

Greek constellations and astronomical objects of interest are included along with the D(L)akota constellations organized by the four seasons and north circumpolar stars

middle-class Kansas town

" Diane Glancy’s tightly distilled poems

Mary perseveres and helps keep her family and friends together until they can reach the new Cherokee nation in Indian Territory

Native Hoops travels the continent

Major funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

The highly developed Ojibway language represents an organic understanding of nature

neither is immune to the realities of the lives of gay men in small towns and closed societies

Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people

who became a powerful mediator between her people and European fur traders