The Hank Adams Reader: An Exemplary Native Activist and the Unleashing of Indigenous Sovereignty Hidatsa Michel Noël's vibrant writing brings

Michel Noël's vibrant writing brings Nipishish's story — and the ongoing struggle of native communities — to life in this powerful tale

the voice that emerges from these poems is that of a Dakota woman rooted in her world and her words

this book—which accompanies an exhibition of the same title opening in August 2013 at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York—reveals how Anishinaabe (also known in the United States as Ojibwe or Chippewa) artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their relations with the Great Lakes region

The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property

and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars

The Hank Adams Reader: An Exemplary Native Activist and the Unleashing of Indigenous Sovereignty Hidatsa Michel Noël's vibrant writing bringsAccording to Vine Deloria Jr., Hank Adams is the most important Native American of the past sixty years. From his mediation of disputes between the US government and AIM in the 1970s to his key role in the Trail of Broken Treaties, Adams shaped modern Native activism. For the first time Adams' writings are collected, providing a well rounded portrait of this important figure and a firsthand history of Indian country in the late twentieth century.