The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNickle

The Surrounded (1936), a novel by American Cree Metis author and activist D'Arcy McNickle, tells the story of Archilde Leon, a half-Salish, half-European young man who returns to the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana where he was raised after working and living in white society in Portland, Oregon. In addition to setting the standard for modern indigenous coming-of-age stories, The Surrounded offers a valuable glimpse of what life was like on Native American Reservations during the Great Depression.