A review by clarityandchaos
Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education by Robert Bensen

5.0

Great anthology of stories - autobiographical, fictional, traditional - poems and other texts about growing up Native American. It's a strong reminder of how colonialist behavior by the US & Canada ( esp. the respective governments) against Native American was/is still present in the 20th century. At times the stories are post-colonial in a "writing-back" sense: Using the colonizers language (which in this case English is) to write of distinctly Native American (colonized) experience.
More about my reading of the book at my blog.