Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indians Football Team

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indians Football TeamUndefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story and more. It's an unflinching look at the U. S. government's violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures. Expertly told by three time National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin, it's the story of a group of young men who came together at that school, the overwhelming obstacles they faced

This provocative volume challenges readers to critically consider and rethink their assumptions about Indigenous literature

and finding the answer is a task that requires deep reflection from all of us who share these magnificent vistas

"Whether we hear giji-giji-gaane-shii-shii or chick-a-dee-dee-dee depends on how we have been taught to listen

Deloria recovers in Sully's work a move toward an anti-colonial aesthetic that claimed a critical role for Indigenous women in American Indian futures—within and distinct from American modernity and modernism

reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law

by engaging in a Black culture

and play in tribal communities throughout the United States

"A gracefully told story of continuity through seeds saved and nurtured by Dakota women

Masterfully written

In telling this gripping story

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the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: