Siha Tooskin Knows the Best Medicine

Siha Tooskin Knows the Best MedicineAntibiotics, bandages, cough syrup, ointment, pills modern medicine has so much to offer when we become ill. But is it actually modern? When Siha TooskinPaul Wahasaypafinds himself not feeling at all well he learns that there are answers for him from the healing practices of his own people and from Western medicine. Pay a hospital visit to Paul as he learns more about where "modern medicine" really comes from and how we can all benefit from Indigenous

historic and contemporary accounts and a revival in the arts attest to the changing and vital nature of Ojibwe religion

Each of them has heard

Crazy Horse and the 1877 War on the Plains

the same eyes

" —Carter Meland (White Earth Anishinaabe)

As the traditional teachers and bearers of culture

and relations with other-than-human kin

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington

“Erdrich continues her excellent storytelling

"migration" through procreation

this book holds in its heart the limitless expanse of love and tenderness

Learn about the life events and aspirations that shaped the voices of ten influential Native writers