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Dorothy remembers an older sister coming home from boarding school

Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana

Elder Geraldine is doing her best to be supportive

Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century trickster New York Times)This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly. As Brianna Theobald illustrates, the federal government and local authorities have long sought to control