Northern Slave, Black Dakota: The Life and Times of Joseph Godfrey Taíno Based on the extraordinary life

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington

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Northern Slave, Black Dakota: The Life and Times of Joseph Godfrey Taíno Based on the extraordinary lifeBorn into slavery in free territory, Joseph Godfrey died widely reviled for his controversial role in the U. S. Dakota War of 1862. Separated from his mother at age five when his enslaver sold her, Godfrey sought refuge in his teens among the Dakota people he had befriended as a child. Godfrey married a Dakota woman and was living with his family on the Lower Sioux Reservation in 1862, when the U. S. Dakota War broke out. Pressured to join Dakota