Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life theory and it is clear that

and it is clear that the injustices: genocide

These stories — retold by Raquel Rivera based on the lives of native artists Pudlo Pudlat

Working in a complex territory oscillating between representation

The accompanying ambiguities of gender and culture come into vivid relief in the powerful and poignant Becoming Two-Spirit

Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life theory and it is clear thatFar greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after the U. S.Dakota War of 1862, Dakota people are still struggling with the effects of this unimaginable loss. Among the Dakota, the Beloved Child ceremony marked the special, tender affection that parents felt toward a child