The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It Comanche is an associate professor of

is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of South Florida

who offers insight into the importance of writing to the Navajo people

Ningewance won the Order of Canada in 2023 for her language reclamation work

and critic John G

The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It Comanche is an associate professor ofAt the age of sixty seven, Percy Bullchild (1915 1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertakingto "write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends," as he puts itas both a corrective and an instructive tool. Bullchild culled this remarkable collection of