grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University

Inspired by true events

They take readers from the boarding school movement of the 1870s to the Sixties Scoop in Canada and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in the United States

demonstrating the enduring power of culture and identity

and an apparently unflappable demeanor

We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power music grew up on the StandingCaleb Gayle"An important part of American history told with a clear eyed and forceful brilliance." National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson "We Refuse to Forget reminds readers, on damn near every page, that we are collectively experiencing a brilliance we've seldom seen or imagined We Refuse to Forget is a new standard in book making." Kiese Laymon, author of the bestselling Heavy: An American Memoir A landmark work of untold American history