Walking Softly

Walking SoftlyWhat goes into the making of a tribal elder? We find some answers in the story of Edward James Bainbridge. Written like a memoir in first person, his story provides rich lessons in resilience, hope, faith, and remaining, always, Ojibwe: This is life as I know it. I say that because some people spend their entire lives searching for deeper meaning and end up missing it in the mundane because that's where it dwells, deep in the creases and folds of the

were not conquered

his thoughtful study also chronicles Indigenous women's long and ultimately successful struggle to transform the way that historians portray American Indian peoples and their pasts

More important than humor

Politicians may or may not follow—it is up to them—but we will design

repetition

cultural and spiritual

Centuries of colonization and other factors have disrupted indigenous communities' ability to control their own food systems

The pride of the north

the founding of survival schools in the Twin Cities

It takes place during a time when animals did many of the things that people can do

Michael Sullivan

“…a brutal