The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance staff pick the assignment of new names

the assignment of new names

and the intricate kinship system that governed all aspects of their life

the story of a lost child leads to a deeper understanding of the challenges facing Native people today: loss of language and culture

Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination

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The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance staff pick the assignment of new namesAn award winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant familys origins. Her great great grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century,