Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School law At his residential school—one of

At his residential school—one of the worst in Canada—he was physically and emotionally abused

Clayton found a way to escape trauma and poverty in order to fight for his people

It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States

This book is in three sections: Beginners

and Joy Harjo

Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School law At his residential school—one ofReturning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Din (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Din student art and poetry reveal ways that boarding school students sustained and contributed to Indigenous cultures and communities despite assimilationist agendas and pressures. This book works to recover the lived experiences of Native