please, help me welcome susan supernaw and walter echo-hawk. [applause] let's begin with a question for susan. susan, this is, your book is much more than just an account of how you came to be miss oklahoma and compete in the miss america contest. it's really about growing up with cultural confusion sometimes and a lot of stress, navigating the world between your native culture and the larger american culture. if you would, tell us a little bit about those themes. >> all right. thank you. i, um, in growing up i started out in a very rural area north of hominy, oklahoma, and be we lived there -- and we lived there. and there is, and for the times this is taking place in the '50s and '60s. so there's a very different mindset back then. and there was a lot of racism and, that had to be dealt with not just by me, but by my parents and especially since my father was indian and my mother was not, even they had a lot of racism aimed at them for being an integrated marriage at that time which was, oh, my gosh. but the story is really about finding that

due to the legal decisions rendered by our american courts and our next distinguished author, walter echo hawkpose the roots of injustice and describes the effects of nefarious legal doctrines upon the legal, political and, property and cultural rights of indigenous peoples. while the judiciary may have rendered the legal destruction of native-american identity and culture, okay, in many americans eyes his survey of these legal travesties offers more than a simple history. it presents a very compelling case for reform in american jurisprudence. taken together, you might think that the themes of these two books are too tragic for consideration but in the courts of the conner qer and