“We are still here

This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving

ideologies

and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation

In fifty short essays

Spirit Wheel: Meditations from an Indigenous Elder voices “We are still hereI stand in the midst of creation's wheel And watch in wonder the quiet majesty of its turning. We are in the care of a love without limit or definition Under the protection of a love that never looks away. When the Spirit speaks to him in his daily prayers, Choctaw elder and spiritual explorer Steven Charleston takes a pen and writes down the messages. He then shares these thoughts with thousands on social media. In these musings, Charleston taps into