and her Ivy League education and career in the white male-dominated field of anthropology

narrow strictures for women

Eldon offers his son a world the boy has never seen

While telling her own family’s stories from the Red Lake Reservation

Five hundred years of European colonialism

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad missing women and her Ivy League educationEmpire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial