Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education indigenous studies Our Songs Came Through offers

Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature

animals and land

It is a fascinating and powerful book that will speak to all women

Jim Northrup makes me proud to be Ojibwe and grateful I can read about it

In this meticulously researched book

Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education indigenous studies Our Songs Came Through offersSometimes the losses of childhood can be recovered only in the flight of the dragonfly. Native American children have long been subject to removal from their homes for placement in residential schools and, more recently, in foster or adoptive homes. The governments of both the United States and Canada, having reduced Native nations to the legal status of dependent children, historically have asserted a surrogate parentalism over Native children