first-hand native accounts tells it all — ordinary and heroic Native people recording their own history as it happens

Long Soldier underscores how centuries of legal jargon have decimated peoples

and after removal

should be writ large in the annals of America

Life is hard for Chia

The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir photography first-hand native accounts tells it"I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love," says award winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan. In this book, she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen with an older man, the legacy of alcoholism, the troubled history of her adopted daughters, and her own physical struggles since a recent horse accident. She shows how historic and emotional pain are