What I’m Reading: Indian No More

Indian No More is a middle grade novel credited to two authors–Charlene Willing McManus, who conceived and wrote early drafts of the book, and Traci Sorell, her friend, who finished the book after McManus died in 2018. McManus was an Umpqua Indian from Oregon, and the events in the book are loosely based on her own childhood, while Sorell is Cherokee.

The book follows Regina Petit, who’s probably around ten years old in 1954 when the government “terminates” her tribe, the Umpqua, on the Grand...