White Birch, Red Hawthorn

White Birch, Red HawthornThis is conquered land. The Dakota womans words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphys search for the

and industrial training

years later

others provide more critical perspectives on the schools' agendas and the dominant culture

this book is a critical resource

or all of the above

uncovering misunderstandings and outright deceptions that helped lead to war in 1862

anthropological linguistics

a balance in the universe

the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico

the Unuit of Arctic Canada

Croix Ojibwe

Fairbanks restricts his study to markers that are far more elusive and difficult in terms of semantic ambiguity and their contribution to sentences and Ojibwe discourse