Rani Bush:
This book shows Ritta's journey from the reservation to the red power movement and a new understanding of what it means to be a lesbian woman and an Indian.
"Doe Tabor's novel about a fifteen-year old Lakota girl who must leave her homeland after a brutal episode with the Tribal police is remarkable for its sense of passion and justice. The physical world of South Dakota is vividly rendered and her portrait of Ritta presents a vulnerable but strong adolescent for us to worry and care about. There is an important historical story to be told here as well, of the women who played such a pivotal role in the Indian political struggles of the late sixties and early seventies. She is a writer unafraid of big subjects and a compassionate observer of small pains as well as large wrongs." - Barbara Wilson
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