Contents

INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………..1
Nicholas A. Brown and Sarah E. Kanouse

CHAPTER ONE……………………………………………………………………………………..19
We Are Still Here to Tell Their Stories and to Add Our Own
George Thurman

CHAPTER TWO: IOWA…………………………………………………………………………….23

CHAPTER THREE…………………………………………………………………………………..65
They Don’t Even Want Our Bones: An Interview with Johnathan Buffalo
Nicholas A. Brown

CHAPTER FOUR: WISCONSIN……………………………………………………………………73

CHAPTER FIVE…………………………………………………………………………………….143
Even Though He Had a Native Person Standing in Front of Him, He Just
Did Not See Me: An Interview with Sandra Massey
Sarah E. Kanouse

CHAPTER SIX: ILLINOIS………………………………………………………………………….151

CHAPTER SEVEN…………………………………………………………………………………209
We Have More Important Work to Do within Ourselves First:
An Interview with Yolanda Pushetonequa
Sarah E. Kanouse

CHAPTER EIGHT…………………………………………………………………………………219
Makataimeshekiakiak, Settler Colonialism, and the Specter of Indigenous
Liberation

Dylan A. T. Miner (Michif)

CODA……………………………………………………………………………………………..237
Minnesota’s Sesquicentennials and Dakota People: Remembering Oppression
and Invoking Resistance
Waziyatawin