Minch-de Leon shows how storytelling can be reclaimed as both research and as a tool for decolonization

Real strength and change can't come from a place of shame

It was then that King began his unparalleled legacy to ensure Indian Control of Indian Education in Canada

investigators found evidence of a more disturbing plot involving some of his closest colleagues: the business elite at Crow Wing

and in 1847 their daughter Mary Nancy Eastman became the wife of Chief Many Lightnings

Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony for Grief drum Minch-de Leon shows how storytellingA beautifully illustrated edition of Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's poem "Washing My Mother's Body," which offers a way through grief when the loss appears unbearable. As I wash my mother's face, I tell her how beautiful she is, how brave, how her beauty and bravery live on in her grandchildren. Her face is relaxed, peaceful. Her earth memory body has not left yet, but when I see her the next day, embalmed and in the casket in the funeral home, it will be