Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life theory These stories — retold by

These stories — retold by Raquel Rivera based on the lives of native artists Pudlo Pudlat

Moving between cycles of alliance and competition

Working in a complex territory oscillating between representation

mostly Native-authored

Each of these humble but powerful people teaches children to believe in the “genius and brilliance” of Dakota culture as a way of surviving historical trauma

Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life theory These stories — retold byFar greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after the U. S.Dakota War of 1862, Dakota people are still struggling with the effects of this unimaginable loss. Among the Dakota, the Beloved Child ceremony marked the special, tender affection that parents felt toward a child