Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850 creation stories Offering important Alaska Native experiences

Offering important Alaska Native experiences of this history

host of The Red Power Hour podcast

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written to ensure her own children grow up with an understanding of their roots

James Luna

Making Relatives of Them: Native Kinship, Politics, and Gender in the Great Lakes Country, 1790-1850 creation stories Offering important Alaska Native experiencesKinship, as an organizing principle, gives structure to communities and cultures and it can vary as widely as the social relationships organized in its name. Making Relatives of Them examines kinship among the Great Lakes Native nations in the eventful years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, revealing how these Indigenous peoples' understanding of kinship, in complex relationship with concepts of gender, defined their social,