They argued for political

As he leaves his boyhood behind and draws closer to finding Cousin

is create new possibilities for Indigenous storymakers

and honoring our vast family of beings

Belcourt pirouettes through the short story form in his signature staccato voice

Without Destroying Ourselves: A Century of Native Intellectual Activism for Higher Education fiction They argued for politicalWithout Destroying Ourselves is an intellectual history of Native activism seeking greater access to and control of higher education in the twentieth century. John A. Goodwin traces themes of Henry Roe Cloud's (Ho Chunk) vision for Native intellectual leadership and empowerment in the early 1900s to the later missions of tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and education based, self determination movements of the 1960s onward. Vital to Cloud's work