Ledfeather

LedfeatherAfter burning up the blacktop in New Mexico with The Fast Red Road and rewriting Indian history on the Great Plains with The Bird is Gone, Stephen Graham Jones now takes us to Montana. Set on a Blackfeet Indian reservation, the life of one Indian boy, Doby Saxon, is laid bare through the eyes of those who witness it: his near death experience, his suicide attempts, his brief glimpse of victory, and the unnecessary death of one of his best friends. But

and as spokesperson for the All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island

and she'd rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper

and being a mentor for Native Americans and young women interested in engineering

How to speak Ojibwe at airports

the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness

an Indian policeman sent to arrest Sitting Bull

Moerman describes the medicinal use of more than 2700 plants by 218 Native American tribes

but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes

In these charmingly illustrated pages

Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national

At the back of the book is a two-way glossary which contains useful vocabulary

The Anishinaabe word for this is nigika