Michigan's Company K : Anishinaabe Soldiers, Citizenship, and the Civil War Abenaki Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors relate

Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors relate their own experiences with teaching and conducting research involving Indigenous peoples and their rights

In telling this incredible story of political and cultural renaissance

and co-founded the Rainbow Creek Dancers (with Reg Davidson) and the Haida Gwaii Singers Society (started by Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson)

and the misreading of the past

and co-curator of Identity by Design: Tradition

Michigan's Company K : Anishinaabe Soldiers, Citizenship, and the Civil War Abenaki Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors relateAs much as the Civil War was a battle over the survival of the United States, for the men of Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters, it was also one battle in a longer struggle for the survival of Anishinaabewaki, the homelands of the AnishinaabegOjibwe, Odawa, and Boodewaadamii peoples. The men who served in what was often called the Indian Company chose to enlist in the Union army to contribute to their peoples ongoing struggle with the state