We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World Seminole and doing the right thing

and doing the right thing

went missing on her way home from school

Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries

Follow along as award-winning author Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D

Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U

We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World Seminole and doing the right thingA brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota. In this significant collection, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States. Essays and poems vividly reflect and comment on the traumas we endured in 2020, beginning with the arrival of the COVID 19 pandemic