First to Fight

First to FightHenry Mihesuah, a Comanche of the Quahada band, has led an ordinary modern American Indian life filled with extraordinary moments. Growing up in the 1920s and 1930s on his family's allotment outside Duncan, Oklahoma, Mihesuah was a member of a family of farmers who gave part of what they grew to black sharecroppers and often helped feed their poorer white neighbors. Never afraid of controversy and always the first to fight, Henry Mihesuah fell in love

Educated in traditional Dakota ways

and family values through the contents of The Case of the Burgled Bundle

Bee's history class turns extraordinary

You'll read tale cycles from the Eastern seaboard

a precision

the Range Eternal

the dwelling place of manitous and spirits and the repository of the bones of generations of ancestors

Compelling

one-part practical toolkit

but this is hearty and nourishing because it has all the elements that Western scientific plant teachings leave out

unforgettable

Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear