American (Indian) Dirt
Non-Native authored books about Natives have been taking up space for a very long day
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7 min readApr 6, 2020
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You are seated at a mass signing as part of a midwestern book festival. A celebrated author sits at the table adjacent to you. His most famous book is about a white man’s journey of self-discovery guided by a Lakota elder on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.