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Growing up in a gang in the city can be dark. Growing up Native American in a gang in Chicago is a whole different story. This book takes a trip through that unexplored part of Indian Country, an intense journey that is full of surprises, shining a light on the interior lives of people whose intellectual and emotional concerns are often overlooked.

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I haven't read anything this real and raw and necessary in a long time. . . . It's a book that'll lodge in you. There's moments and lines and images in here that cut through all the lies, right into the heart of childhood, right into the beating heart of Indian country."" - Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels: A Novel

Sacred Smokes

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    A Paperback / softback by Theodore C. Van Alst

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      Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/08/2018
      ISBN13: 9780826359902, 978-0826359902
      ISBN10: 0826359906

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Growing up in a gang in the city can be dark. Growing up Native American in a gang in Chicago is a whole different story. This book takes a trip through that unexplored part of Indian Country, an intense journey that is full of surprises, shining a light on the interior lives of people whose intellectual and emotional concerns are often overlooked.

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      I haven't read anything this real and raw and necessary in a long time. . . . It's a book that'll lodge in you. There's moments and lines and images in here that cut through all the lies, right into the heart of childhood, right into the beating heart of Indian country."" - Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels: A Novel

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