Bücher der Reihe Plains Histories

Zitkala-i?1/2a, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one of the most influential American Indian writer/activists of the twentieth century. This book is a critical collection of primary documents written by Bonnin.

Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, this book's joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity for the next generations of Cheyenne people.

Before an indigenous people can decolonize, Leo Killsback explains, they must first understand what the world was like before colonization. Such understanding allows indigenous people to generate realistic goals and achieve positive change, reinventing themselves into people who can honour original ways without corrupting or disgracing them.