I Am America BRAVE BIRD AT WOUNDED KNEE A Story of Protest on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
I Am America BRAVE BIRD AT WOUNDED KNEE A Story of Protest on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation By Rachel Bithell Illustrated by Eric Freeberg Consultant Royal Lost His Blanket Stone Jr. Director of Lakota Studies at Sinte Gleska University JOLLY FISH PRESS Mendota Heights Minnesota
A Note on Names The people who lived in North America before Europeans came have been called by many names These include Indians American Indians Native Americans First Americans Indigenous Peoples First Peoples and First Nations This book uses the terms Native Native American and Indian as these terms were used in 1973 by the people who were part of the events described in this book These terms are still used by many members of Indigenous communities today However some Indigenous people object to the terms Indian or American Indian Indian is rooted in a historical mistake When Christopher Columbus reached North America he thought he had landed in India And the term American was coined by European colonizers They referred to the continent as America after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci This book also uses the names of some nations or tribes Lakota refers to a nation that lived on the plains in
