"Ramirez tells a valuable story of indigenous resistance and a family legacy of activism."—Publishers Weekly
"The themes that Ramirez presents in this book are of great relevance today to the ways in which we examine Indigenous resistance in the settler colonial state, making this book extremely useful and accessible to scholars in a variety of fields, from Indigenous studies, to anthropology, geography, and history."—Deondre Smiles, Great Plains Quarterly
"These elegant family sources reveal Henry Cloud as a genuinely indigenous person. Ramirez emphasizes, for example, how her grandfather loved to tell Winnebago Trickster (“Wakdjunkaga”) stories. And these stories are as marvelous and complex as this storyteller."—Dennis (Denny) J. Smith, Nebraska History
"An important and informative examination of the careers of two brilliant and proficient activists."—Jay Freeman, Booklist
"Ramirez pulls from archives and personal letters to give us a full picture of her grandparents' activist work, including the contradictions, at a time when Indian activism was virtually unheard of."—Mark Anthony Rolo, Progressive
"Ramirez's work offers both an intimate story of a scholar's family and insights into how Native Americans navigated and shaped twentieth-century settler colonialism as it operated through institutions that allowed some space for Native participation."—Mark Boxell, Kansas History
"Ramirez offers priceless insights into the Clouds’ lives as Native intellectuals coming of age in the oppressive early decades of the twentieth century."—K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Native American and Indigenous Studies
“Moving. . . . This is the first project authored by a descendant of these leaders and offers a uniquely nuanced understanding of their activism. The book is a beautiful contribution to the literature on the early twentieth-century Native American experience and honors the life and legacy of two extraordinary leaders.”—Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
“Renya Ramirez explores how Ho-Chunk and Ojibwe cultures influenced [her grandparents’] shared visions. . . . [and] discusses the vital work of these two leaders in a deeply personal voice.”—Lisbeth Haas, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial and Mexican California
“Ramirez’s insightful biography of Henry and Elizabeth Cloud is an excellent example of ‘writing from home,’ and shows us the full richness of the Clouds’ lives as well as their important legacies, both personal and political.”—Cathleen Cahill, associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University and author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1933
