![]() ![]() Meanwhile, her father believes that if he works hard, their family will be treated just like white Americans. For the first time in her life, Regina comes face to face with the viciousness of racism, personally and toward her new friends. She's never met kids of other races, and they've never met a real Indian. Regina finds a whole new world in her neighborhood on 58th Place. Now that they've been forced from their homeland, Regina's father signs the family up for the federal Indian Relocation Program and moves them to Los Angeles. But when the federal government enacts a law that says Regina's tribe no longer exists, Regina becomes "Indian no more" overnight-even though she lives with her tribe and practices tribal customs, and even though her ancestors were Indian for countless generations. ![]() ![]() Her biggest worry is that Sasquatch may actually exist out in the forest. Regina Petit's family has always been Umpqua, and living on the Grand Ronde Tribe's reservation is all ten-year-old Regina has ever known. ![]()
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