Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School traditional tales oral tradition has been fading

oral tradition has been fading

and lifeways

" White Hawk medicated her traumas with drugs and alcohol

uprooted from the familiar and amazed by the new

Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School traditional tales oral tradition has been fadingReturning 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