The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux reconciliation past and present

past and present

While there are no living fluent speakers of Anishinaabemowin in this community

how to create community through storytelling

and his own identity as an young

and of the cruelty she and her sisters endured in residential school—as well as his many siblings and cousins

The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux reconciliation past and presentThis book presents two of the most important traditions of the Dakota people, the Red Road and the Holy Dance, as told by Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Their accounts of these central spiritual traditions and other aspects of Dakota life and history go back seven generations and help to illuminate the worldview of the Dakota people for the younger generation