Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850 art theory this book can be read

this book can be read aloud

" —Robin Wall Kimmerer

Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie

and from the beating heart of her unborn grandson to the vast

It shows the complex agency and ability of Indigenous youth to maintain their Diné culture within the colonial spaces that were designed to alienate them from their communities and customs

Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850 art theory this book can be readKinship, as an organizing principle, gives structure to communities and cultures and it can vary as widely as the social relationships organized in its name. Making Relatives of Them examines kinship among the Great Lakes Native nations in the eventful years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, revealing how these Indigenous peoples' understanding of kinship, in complex relationship with concepts of gender, defined their social,