Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest two-spirit Or deny his strange kinship

Or deny his strange kinship with one of Ana Maria's surviving daughters

she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture

concomitant stories produce a space that holds in balance the complexities of life--joy

strange messages were picked up by American and Japanese forces on land and at sea

And in the wake of a suicide attempt

Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest two-spirit Or deny his strange kinshipAn unprecedented study that puts mixed ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history. Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed ancestry Native Americans: racially and legally differentiated from nonmixed Indigenous people by U. S. government policy, their lives have continually been treated as peripheral to Indigenous societies. Mixed Blood Histories intervenes in this erasure. Using legal, linguistic, and family historical