Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School

Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian SchoolReturning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Din (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Din student art and poetry reveal ways that boarding school students sustained and contributed to Indigenous cultures and communities despite assimilationist agendas and pressures. This book works to recover the lived experiences of Native

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environmental warrior

Louise Phelps Kellogg

The story of a girlhood lived in the glow of a woodstove from one of the country's most distinguished and beloved authors

and resourcefulness are the Billys' only weapons

an eleven-year-old feverishly planning to preserve her family