Once in the bright lights of the big city

In this food memoir

a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world

looks at how marginalized communities adapt to social change

including the Native people's incredible resilience despite rapid change and the impact of European arrivals on Native culture

Sovereign Schools: How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation thriller Once in the bright lightsSovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North America have struggled to preserve their religious practices and cultural knowledge by educating younger generations but have been thwarted by the deeply corrosive effects of missionary schools, federal boarding schools, Bureau of Indian Affairs reservation schools, and off reservation public schools. Martha