TY - BOOK AB - 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, and nationhood. -- Provided by Publisher AU - Sorell, Traci, AU - Lessac, Frané, CN - CMC E77.4 ID - 1562883 KW - Indians of North America KW - Indians, Treatment of KW - Indians of North America KW - Persistence KW - Indians of North America KW - Indians KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Persistence. KW - Native Americans. KW - Attitudes envers les Peuples autochtones KW - Persévérance KW - HISTORY KW - Indians of North America KW - Indians of North America KW - Indians, Treatment of KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Persistence KW - Native Americans KW - Native Americans KW - Native peoples KW - Persistence KW - Native Americans KW - Native Americans. KW - Native peoples. KW - Persistence. N2 - 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, and nationhood. -- Provided by Publisher SN - 9781623541927 SN - 1623541921 SN - 9780780488083 SN - 0780488083 T1 - We are still here! :Native American truths everyone should know / TI - We are still here! :Native American truths everyone should know / ER -