Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School traditional tales Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen

with colorful illustrations by multiple different artists

Each chapter closes with practical advice on how to engage with the teachings

Purépecha

uprooted from the familiar and amazed by the new

Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School traditional tales Viet Thanh NguyenReturning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Din (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Din student art and poetry reveal ways that boarding school students sustained and contributed to Indigenous cultures and communities despite assimilationist agendas and pressures. This book works to recover the lived experiences of Native