In January 1879, thirty Ponca set off on a six-hundred-mile journey. Earlier, the United States government had forced the Ponca to leave their Nebraska homeland and move to the so-called “Indian Territory,” or what would become Oklahoma. There, with inadequate government support, the Ponca suffered....

In A Warrior of the People, Joe Starita reveals the extraordinary life of Susan La Flesche. Born in a tipi in 1865 to parents of Indigenous and White ancestry, Susan La Flesche spent her life straddling two worlds. Her family insisted that she and her...

Joe Starita’s The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge traces four generations of one Oglala Lakota family across a century. The book begins with Guy Dull Knife Sr., nearly ninety-five in a Colorado nursing home, then reaches back to Chief Dull Knife and the Northern Cheyenne...