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“When the Ponca people were forcibly removed from their homelands more than a century ago, they carried their seeds with them. In this compassionate and honest reckoning, Margaret Jacobs confronts a long history of settler theft and violence against Indigenous people, and reveals how settler accountability and efforts at collective action can restore fractured relationships. After One Hundred Winters is a moving, vital story of how those very seeds made their way back, in Ponca hands, to their homelands to take root again. May this book be a seed of its own.”—Beth Piatote, author of The Beadworkers: Stories
“Prizewinning historian Margaret Jacobs offers a clear-eyed and heartrending look at the fraught historical relationship between Indigenous people and newcomers that highlights Indigenous survivors and descendants while calling to account all of us who have benefitted from Indigenous land. After One Hundred Winters is a necessary book for this moment.”—Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
“Jacobs offers a clear-eyed, deeply informed indictment of our nation’s crimes against Indigenous people, but also reveals a pathway toward redemption. This wise, remarkable book will convince readers that the road to reconciliation is one we must take, guided not by guilt or shame but by understanding, respect, justice, and hope.”—Sherry L. Smith, author of Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth-Century America
“After One Hundred Winters shines light on today’s efforts at Indigenous-settler reconciliation and places them in a context informed by Jacobs’s deep understanding of settler colonialism. At a time of growing awareness of historical injustice and the pressing need for concrete actions to redress it, this important book will be of broad public interest.”—Jeffrey Ostler, author of Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
“After One Hundred Winters is at once devastating and uplifting. In a powerful narrative brimming with hope and decency, Jacobs shows the importance of reconciliation, not as a glib slogan but as a deeply personal and meaningful cross-cultural dialogue. This book deserves to be read widely and deeply.”—Lynette Russell, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University
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