Sarah Hernandez (Sicangu Lakota) is an assistant professor of Native American literature and the director of the Institute for American Indian Research at the University of New Mexico. She is a member of the Oak Lake Writers’ Society, an Oceti Sakowin–led nonprofit for Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota writers.

“While numerous other authors have covered missionaries like Riggs and Pond, and authors like Eastman, Deloria, and Cook-Lynn, the author does so in new ways that link their stories into the broader narratives of settler colonialism and decolonization.”—Linda M. Clemmons, author of Dakota in Exile: The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War

Sarah Hernandez (Sicangu Lakota) is an assistant professor of Native American literature and the director of the Institute for American Indian Research at the University of New Mexico. She is a member of the Oak Lake Writers’ Society, an Oceti Sakowin–led nonprofit for Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota writers.

“While numerous other authors have covered missionaries like Riggs and Pond, and authors like Eastman, Deloria, and Cook-Lynn, the author does so in new ways that link their stories into the broader narratives of settler colonialism and decolonization.”—Linda M. Clemmons, author of Dakota in Exile: The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War