Good for Nothing

Good for NothingThe year is 1959, and fifteen year old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he can look forward, like all Native Americans, to a life of drunkenness, prison, and despair. But despite his new freedom, the reserve offers little to a young Mtis man. Both his parents are dead, his father Shipu, a respected leader, dying mysteriously at a young age. When Nipishish is

As he faces the reality of winter on the South Dakota reservation

In The Night Watchman

and vice versa

Although boarding schools were a threat to family life

Henry Mihesuah fell in love with and married a white woman and then served a dangerous tour of duty in the Marines in post–World War II China

As its authors confront and consider the realities that lie beneath the numbers

Anderson examines the history

the Great Lakes

the landscape had been altered beyond recognition

" — The New York Times

and did so in a way that had national and international dimensions

Akawe Niwii-tibaajim (First of All