Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education indigenous studies Jim Northrup makes me proud

Jim Northrup makes me proud to be Ojibwe and grateful I can read about it

It is a modern classic

Our Songs Came Through offers the extraordinary sweep of Native literature

and ecological transformation

Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education indigenous studies Jim Northrup makes me proudSometimes the losses of childhood can be recovered only in the flight of the dragonfly. Native American children have long been subject to removal from their homes for placement in residential schools and, more recently, in foster or adoptive homes. The governments of both the United States and Canada, having reduced Native nations to the legal status of dependent children, historically have asserted a surrogate parentalism over Native children