award-winning author Brian Lee Young (Diné) bridges the generational divide between a Navajo teen at an elite prep school and his great-grandmother's experience at a federal boarding school for Indigenous students

Left behind on the reserve

like all Native Americans

the author unveils the genealogies for all the families who belonged to the band under Agatha Biddle's leadership

proliferated on these new reservations well into the twentieth century

Painting Native America: Indigenous Artists in the Twentieth Century indigenous language books award-winning author Brian Lee YoungGenerations of Indigenous artists have sought to make a place for Native art in North American culture and society as well as the broader art world. Written at the intersection of history and art history, Painting Native America tells the social history of Indigenous artists and their experiences as they negotiate such questions as how to use art for social and political goals, what constitutes "Indian art," and how to make a living as an artist,