Siha Tooskin Knows the Gifts of His People

Siha Tooskin Knows the Gifts of His PeopleTransportation, housing, agriculture, communications there are so many modern conveniences. But are they really modern? Where did they really come from? Paul WahasaypaSiha Tooskinwill learn about their origins and more on his walk home from school with Ade (his father). There's so much to learn about the earliest forms of technology, travel, medicine, and food from right here on Turtle Island. Come along with Paul and Ade to hear all about the gifts

including what it means to them to be Lakota

bees and blueberries

Deeply observant poems from a Native American poet with a wry sense of humor: Many of the poems in National Monuments explore bodies

each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community

which informed white definitions of tribes in the nineteenth century

and autobiography

From the 1870s to the present day

and the salmon returns to the fresh water where it was spawned

Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent

he highlights the roles of well-known frontier commanders

For example

But she soon found herself caught between two worlds—white and Native American