Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a New York Times best-selling author, has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. She lives in San Francisco.
Debbie Reese is an educator and founder of American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL). She is tribally enrolled at Nambe Owingeh, a federally recognized tribe, and grew up on Nambe's reservation. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Illinois.
Jean Mendoza is a curriculum specialist focusing on the representation of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult literature. She holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction and an M.Ed in early childhood education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A Note to Readers
INTRODUCTION
This Land
CHAPTER ONE
Follow the Corn
CHAPTER TWO
Culture of Conquest
CHAPTER THREE
Cult of the Covenant
CHAPTER FOUR
Bloody Footprints
CHAPTER FIVE
The Birth of a Nation
CHAPTER SIX
Jefferson, Jackson, and the Pursuit of Indigenous Homelands
CHAPTER SEVEN
Sea to Shining Sea
CHAPTER EIGHT
Indigenous Lands Become "Indian Country"
CHAPTER NINE
The Persistence of Sovereignty
CHAPTER TEN
Indigenous Action, Indigenous Rights
CONCLUSION
"Water Is Life": Indigenous Resistance in the Twenty-First Century
For Further Reading
Some Books We Recommend
Notes
Image Credits
Index