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Basso explores in a highly readable way the role of language in the complex but compelling theme of a people's attachment to place

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Betty takes her four young children from their Ojibwe roots to make a new life in Minneapolis

Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century trickster thought-provokingThis pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly. As Brianna Theobald illustrates, the federal government and local authorities have long sought to control