Reading the late, great #Dakota scholar Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's memoir, "In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World." I'm going to share choice passages.

"If you write about Indians, please write about praying to the Great Spirit or how drunk we all are since Lewis and Clark came....not about genocide, invasion, racist law and the hideously righteous and narrow-minded Christians who came and built schools all over the West to capture the young." (34)