although DeMille claimed to have "discovered the little Indian girl

a Metis who just moved to town

An enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa

and freely interpreted

a member of the Lumbee tribe

The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance Taíno although DeMille claimed to haveAn award winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant familys origins. Her great great grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century,