To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota indigenous studies and intelligence to develop culturally

and intelligence to develop culturally specific decolonization strategies for their own communities and thereby systematically pursue their own liberation

Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan

This beautifully illustrated book features both well-known and emerging artists

And essays by Terry Tempest Williams and Shaunna Oteka-McCovey provide new insights into age-old problems facing native people

To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota indigenous studies and intelligence to develop culturallyThe largely untold story of the Ho Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents sought to expel all indigenous people from the region and deny Native claims to some of the richest farmland in the world. In 1863, after the end of the USDakota War, a group of men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society. At the beginning of every meeting, members of the Knights of the Forest recited its ritual pledge, including these words: "I