A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return nations These stories — retold by

These stories — retold by Raquel Rivera based on the lives of native artists Pudlo Pudlat

who teaches anthropology at the University of Oklahoma

—Louise Erdrich

eluding analytic frameworks of invented tradition and naïve continuity

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

A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return nations These stories — retold byAn 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