Stories for a Lost Child

Stories for a Lost ChildThe summer before going into high school, Fiona receives a mysterious box in the mail, one that she hopes will answer her questions about her Anishinaabe Indian heritage. It contains stories written by the grandfather she never knew, an Anishinaabe man her mother refuses to talk about. As she reads his stories about blackbirds and bigfoot, as well as tales about Indians in space and homeless Native men camping by the river in Minneapolis, Fiona finds

a repository of family and tribal history

In Hidden Thunder

The pervasive and growing presence of extreme economic inequality in America is a worsening condition

bureaucrats

culturally relevant learning environments for students who had struggled in the public schools

Indian basketball was born of hard times and hard places

Keewaydinoquay grew up to become a world-renowned herbalist

buffalo and rivers with the wonder and wisdom of an ancient soul

Red Shirt's primary conclusion is that this cadence originates from a distinctly Lakota oral tradition

which is where the best art comes from

They have the skills to prepare Josie for her powwow debut

after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U