We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know

Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: 

• forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), 
• land allotment and Native tribal reorganization, 
• termination (the US government not recognizing tribes as nations), 
• Native urban relocation (from reservations), 
• self-determination (tribal self-empowerment), 
• Native civil rights, 
• the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), 
• religious freedom, 
• economic development (including casino development), 
• Native language revival efforts, 
• cultural persistence, 
• nationhood