"Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people’s past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land allotment and Native tribal reorganization, termination (the US government not recognizing tribes as nations), Native urban relocation (from reservations), self-determination (tribal self-empowerment), Native civil rights, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), religious freedom, economic development (including casino development), Native language revival efforts, cultural persistence, and nationhood." -- publisher
Themes
Genres: Non-Fiction
Categories: Informational, Oppression & Resilience
Content: Activism, Bi/multilingual, Disability
Settings: California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern America, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Washington D.C., Wisconsin
Tribal Affiliation/Homelands: Cherokee Nation, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservat, Karuk, Mandan, Mashpee Wampanoag, Menominee (Menomini), Tolowa, Yurok
Race/Culture: First/Native Nations/American Indian/Indigenous