| This article, “A 20-Year Anniversary Reflection on Maria Pearson’s Repatriation and Peace Legacies” was originally published in issue in the Fall & Winter 2023, Issue 193 of Indian Affairs. By Lawrence W. Gross, Anishinaabe and a citizen of the White Earth Nation. He holds the rank of Professor and serves as the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Endowed Chair of Native American Studies at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California. He has written extensively on the Anishinaabe people and culture, including Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being. I want to start this article by sharing that this is a deeply personal and significant article for me. I share the story of Maria Pearson with as many of my students as possible each year. Her non-English name is Hai-Mecha Eunka, which means Running Moccasins, and she comes from the Yankton Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. I tell my students Maria’s story in hopes that it will teach them the deep significance of repatriation work. As a result, I was very happy to receive the invitation to submit this article from one of my former students. That meant to me that I helped her legacy live on and inspire my students in their work. As I explain below, I also consider Maria to be one of my three mothers, so sharing these stories is deeply valuable for me as well. |  |
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