Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad drum and women who carry out

and women who carry out traditional healing ceremonies

a baby can still be found wrapped up and wide-eyed

who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance

he has done it again

She participated in coming-of-age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads together and the messages conveyed by hairstyles

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad drum and women who carry outEmpire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial