A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return

A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of ReturnAn adoptee reconnects with the Lakota family and culture she was born into and nurtures a new tradition that helps others to do the same. In the 1950s, when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler, she was taken from her Lakota family on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her adoption papers identify her as "a child of the Indian race," and her adoptive mother never let her forget it, telling her she was unwanted and shaming her for being

which became the FBI

a naturopathic physician and member of the Deninu K'ue First Nation

The Fire of 1918 destroyed the city of Cloquet

striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn’t want them

we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River

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The Flight of the Hummingbird shows how easy it is to start and how great the effect could be if everyone just did what they could

the first Native American to serve as U

strategy and tactics

turns out to be based in myth and distortion

tying the rise of basketball—and Native sports history—to sweeping educational

she had the gift of language and the understanding necessary to bridge races