The Good Indian: A Seventh Generation Memoir

By turns irreverently funny and deeply moving, a memoir of growing up on the rez and learning to fight injustice in unexpected ways, and to hold family close even when—or especially when—they make it the hardest

When Lakota Tribal attorney and law professor Elaine Yellow Horse was growing up, her mother told her that her generation was meant to save their people, but Yellow Horse—just a muddy kid running around the rez with her siblings—could never have imagined how that responsibility would...