Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life

Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of LifeFar greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after the U. S.Dakota War of 1862, Dakota people are still struggling with the effects of this unimaginable loss. Among the Dakota, the Beloved Child ceremony marked the special, tender affection that parents felt toward a child

political outcries

Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses

Short stories are added in later lessons

parenthood

their voices

its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S

”―Dean Rader

Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary—but no Native women

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Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love

Indian voices in the best folkloric sources of the nineteenth century to make this the most comprehensive and authentic volume of American Indian myths available anywhere

following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument