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A touching middle grade story based on the author's family history of being “terminated“ by the U.S. Government--their reservation land stolen and tribal rolls disavowed. There were some positive aspects for the family's standard of living, but the narrator, Regina, struggles to hold onto her identity amidst ignorance and prejudice.

This is also a book published posthumously, as the author sadly died before its completion.

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HF based on the life of Charlene Willing McManis, of the Umpqua tribe in the forests of Oregon. Some ridiculous federal govt/BIA law ‘relocated‘ them to LosAngeles in the 1950s, to low rent rundown houses with postage stamp yards - told them they were no longer Indians. Charlene died of cancer before the manuscript was completed; Traci Sorrell finished it for her.
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This children's book is a historical fiction story about a young girl named Regina. She is a member of an Indian tribe that the federal government decided to eliminate. She and the members of her tribe are forced to leave their homeland and move to Los Angeles, and she becomes subject to discrimination by her community. This novel won the American Indian Youth Literature Award. It was published in 2019.

Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis was published on September 24th, 2019 and is a historical fictional story. This book won the American Indian Youth Literature Award Book. This book tells the story of the U.S. government's mass efforts to relocate Native American tribes in the 1950s.

I‘ve never read a book that was started by one author who passed during the process of writing it and then finished by another. But now that I have, I can‘t help but wonder if the author would have enjoyed what became of her book. All I do know, though, is that I enjoyed it. Native American history pass The Trail of Tears is not taught enough in schools. There need to be more books like this to educate those who are oblivious to ⬇️

Follow Regina as her tribe is disbanded and she moves from Oregon to Los Angeles, trying to hold fast to her culture. As an adult, you will be angry at the lies told by the US govt to disband the Umpqua tribe in Oregon. As a child, you will learn some untaught US history and more. I would recommend this for classrooms.

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I live on Kalapuya land, a tribe incorporated into the Grand Ronde confederation. A few years ago we attended the Restoration ceremony, a commemoration of when the US government restored some of the tribes‘ land after the 1956 Indian Relocation Act that stole the land and attempted assimilation.

This is an important story- a look at one family‘s struggle to live between two cultures, and what it means to be Indian.

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