The Removed, A Novel Water and called the Xsien or

and called the Xsien or Water of the Clouds by the Tsimshian and Gitksan for the role it plays in their lives

and Indigenous Nationhood charts the history of lacrosse in Indigenous communities and how it's contributed to Indigenous identity formation despite the game’s appropriation by non-Indigenous sport

chronicles their fight to preserve it in the face of conflict with white settlers in the nineteenth century

This book contains 40 colour illustrations

the abuses of the residential school system

The Removed, A Novel Water and called the Xsien orThe Removed is a novel by author Brandon Hobson, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimers in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic