“I feel like I got my future back.” – Thirteen-year-old Tokata Iron Eyes, at Standing Rock, December 2016 In 1961 in an introduction to a volume titled American Heritage Book of Indians, President John F. Kennedy explained that Native Americans were “the least understood and most misunderstood Americans,” and that even many of their heroes—he called out More

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