Begay was involved with the book every step of the way

as well as a transcript of one of his final interviews

the Powhatans of the mid-Atlantic coast (Pocahontas)

a Metis who just moved to town

An enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa

The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance Taíno Begay was involved with theAn 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,