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t’s 1973, and in Denver, Colorado, Patsy Antoine doesn’t usually Bithell
Igive much thought to her relatives living on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation in South Dakota. After all, her classmates
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don’t even know she’s part Lakota. Then she learns the tiny town
of Wounded Knee has been occupied. Now Patsy’s relatives are
stuck amid the conflict between American Indian Movement
activists and Oglala Lakota tribe members on the one side, and
federal marshals and FBI agents on the other. When Patsy visits
her relatives on Pine Ridge, she learns more about her heritage
and the clashing perspectives on the Wounded Knee occupation.
As she connects with her roots, Patsy must grapple with the
complexities of the conflict and of being biracial.

It’s the storytellers that preserve a nation’s history. But what hap-
pens when some stories are silenced? The I Am America series
features fictional stories based on important historical events
about people whose voices have been excluded, lost, or forgotten
over time.

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“This well-written volume fills a major gap in historical fiction.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review for Journey to a Promised Land

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