“The Beaver and the Coyote.” Towards the end of the novel, when Regina’s grandmother Chich falls ill, she asks Regina to tell her an Umpqua story while they await an ambulance. You might also want to explore the resources in our September 2019 entry on An Indigenous People’s History of the United States for Young People. American Public Media has a multimodal article with a 50-minute audio recording entitled “ Uprooted: The 1950’s Plan to Erase Indian Country” that is both powerful and detailed. To learn more about the federal policies that drive Regina Petit’s family’s decisions, and to better understand the context of the novel, read “ How America’s Past Shapes Native Americans’ Present,” from the Octoissue of The Atlantic. Ideal for explorations of family, friendship, and identity, the impact of federal policies generationally on Native Americans, and the process by which we claim our own identities, Indian No More will linger in the hearts and minds of readers.ĭevelop Your Background Knowledge as an Educator. Educators should note that the authors use the “n” word in dialogue in chapter seventeen. Within the back matter is a Definitions section that includes a conversation about the use of the word Indian as part of the historical setting of the novel, followed by an Author’s Note by Charlene Willing McManis of the Umpqua tribe, a Co-Author’s note by Traci Sorell of the Cherokee Nation, who finished the novel’s revisions upon McManis’s passing, and an Editor’s Note by Elise McMullen-Ciotti, also of the Cherokee nation. A note for readers about the Chinuk Wawa language of the Confederate Tribes of Grand Ronde and a brief glossary of Chinuk Wawa words appears at the beginning of the novel. Ultimately, Regina is able to see her own challenges as part of a continuum of displacement and resistance: her Umpqua ancestors had to leave their homeland to live on the Grand Ronde Reservation and her grandmother overcame the forced assimilation of the U.S. Adjusting to life in the city is not simple, and Regina and her family are forced to consider their own identities in the context of the diverse families around them and the powerful media images that reinforce racial and ethnic stereotypes as well as white middle class norms through television shows, advertisements, and movies. history and federal policy in the mid-20th century. This poignant and powerful story of family and identity provides readers with an exploration of a less-well-known period of U.S. But what caused her identity to be in jeopardy? It’s 1957, and Regina and her family have relocated from the Grand Ronde Tribe reservation in Oregon to Los Angeles because the tribe has been terminated by the federal government. Regina Petit, a fictional but autobiographical character based on author Charlene Willing McManis’s childhood experiences, concludes Indian No More with this assertion of her identity.
And because I survived to tell their stories and mine. “I was Indian even if I was Indian no more. Published by Tu Books, Lee and Low Books, 2019 Written by Charlene Willing McManis, with Traci Sorell
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