Many of the English translations of Indigenous languages that we commonly use today have been handed down from colonial missionaries whose intent was to fundamentally alter or destroy prior Indigenous knowledge and praxis

Compelling

Dominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end

accomplished historian Devon Abbott Mihesuah

Changed Forever (Volume I): American Indian Boarding-School Literature two-spirit Many of the English translationsChanged Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat examines Hopi, Navajo, and Apache boarding school narratives that detail these students' experiences. The book's analyses are attentive to the topics ( topoi) and places ( loci) of