To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota indigenous studies tying the rise of basketball—and

tying the rise of basketball—and Native sports history—to sweeping educational

he learns how to put together the pieces of his life

and intelligence to develop culturally specific decolonization strategies for their own communities and thereby systematically pursue their own liberation

is one of the first books of its kind

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To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota indigenous studies tying the rise of basketball—andThe largely untold story of the Ho Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents sought to expel all indigenous people from the region and deny Native claims to some of the richest farmland in the world. In 1863, after the end of the USDakota War, a group of men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society. At the beginning of every meeting, members of the Knights of the Forest recited its ritual pledge, including these words: "I