A History of Kindness

A History of KindnessPoems from Pulitzer finalist Linda Hogan explore new and old ways of experiencing the vagaries of the body and existing in harmony with earth's living beings. "In this new collection, Linda Hogan weaves together memory, the Milky Way, buffalo and rivers with the wonder and wisdom of an ancient soul, and a passionate heart. We are blessed, once again, by her words." Deborah A. Miranda, author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir "There is no one like Linda

Altogether

an Ojibwe counselor

"—Indian Country Today

at other times

While telling her own family’s stories from the Red Lake Reservation

It is very familiar to Algonquin

Apple's name

A blend of history

she must navigate all this

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington

Anton Treuer has been at the forefront of the battle to revitalize Ojibwe for many years

A widow and mother