The Assassination of Hole in the Day Nez Perce ” — Publishers Weekly Starred

” — Publishers Weekly Starred Pick of the Week

This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous-language immersion schools and by the failures of past assimilationist practices and the recent English-only policies of the No Child Left Behind Act in the United States

Originally published in 1944

who for decades has been leading efforts to preserve the rich linguistic heritage of the world

a story of reconciliation with her father—an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist—who was murdered under mysterious circumstances

The Assassination of Hole in the Day Nez Perce ” — Publishers Weekly Starred"The Assassination of Hole in the Day is a masterful history, and more. Anton Treuer illuminates the character of a controversial and charismatic Ojibwe leader from within Ojibwe culture, and tells a powerful story of loss that reverberates in the present." ~Louise Erdrich On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation