A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return nations who teaches anthropology at the

who teaches anthropology at the University of Oklahoma

internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of Welcome Song for Baby and We Sang You Home

and for whom these treaties were made and how the federal government’s failure and unwillingness to acknowledge their legitimacy led to the further loss of Indigenous lands

We Refuse to Forget is an eye-opening account that challenges our preconceptions of identity as it shines new light on the long shadows of white supremacy and marginalization that continue to hamper progress for Black Americans

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A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return nations who teaches anthropology at theAn 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