Old School Indian

Old School IndianA coming of middle age novel about an Ahkweshsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal. Abe Jacobs is Kanien'keh ka from Ahkweshsne or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. Now forty three, Abe is suffering from a rare disease one his doctors in Miami believe will kill him. Running from his diagnosis and a failing marriage, Abe

Starting with a classic Algonquian linguistic tradition

See you at the powwow

citing the restoration work of urban Indigenous people in Seattle

cementing his legacy for generations to come

Shifting between theory and poetry

Billy-Ray Belcourt’s voice is uniquely plangent and self-aware

Learning to speak English in the first grade

" in which Maxine Bullhead

reflect on Indigenous history and politics and on the movement’s significance

Ayumi Goto

childbirth

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