is a foundational story that remains largely untold in histories of early America

and through it all

Carlisle provided a blueprint for the federal Indian school system that was established across the United States and served as a model for many residential schools in Canada

Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school

this collection is a powerful and important expression of imagination rooted in social critique

All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual creation stories is a foundational story thatIn All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history of the Lakotas' religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insights from what has been called the "ontological turn," particularly the dual notions of interiority soul spirit and physicality body and an extended notion of personhood, as proposed by A. Irving Hallowell and Philippe Descola, which includes humans as well as nonhumans. All My Relatives demonstrates how