Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876 Lakota internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling

internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of Welcome Song for Baby and We Sang You Home

Throughout the 1960s

and marks the debut of a major new voice in Indigenous fiction

Lessons from Turtle Island is the first complete guide to exploring Native American issues with children

In this latest work by the prominent historian

Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876 Lakota internationally renowned storyteller and bestsellingBorn in Minnesota in 1845 into a prominent mixed blood Dakota family, Angelique Renville (18451876) initially learned traditional Dakota ways of life from her relatives while navigating the complex multi cultural world of the declining fur trade. At age six, she and her younger sister Agnes were adopted by Protestant missionaries Stephen and Mary Riggs, who did their utmost to erase her Dakota identity and educate her as a proper Christian woman.