Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Ho-Chunk And there young Darrel learns

And there young Darrel learns to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that will guide him throughout his life

but where indigenous peoples have agency to transform life on their own lands and on their own terms

During the Sioux Uprising of 1862 Ohiyesa became separated from his father—his mother had died soon after his birth-and fled from the reservation in Minnesota to Canada under the protection of his grandmother and uncle

as Andres Resendez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery

Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Ho-Chunk And there young Darrel learnsA necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices. Typically represented as unsolved mysteries or ruins of a tragic past, Indigenous mounds have long been marginalized and misunderstood. In Earthworks Rising, Chadwick Allen issues a compelling corrective, revealing a countertradition based in Indigenous worldviews. Alongside twentieth and twenty first century Native