Chief Bender's Burden

Chief Bender's BurdenThe greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a contemporary, "the coolest pitcher in the game." Using a trademark delivery, an impressive assortment of pitches that may have included the game's first slider, and an apparently unflappable demeanor, he earned a reputation as baseball's great clutch pitcher during tight Deadball Era pennant races and in front of boisterous World Series crowds. More

resilience

and disseminated by Indigenous scholars

mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world

or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch

this enchanting memoir traces the author’s life from her difficult childhood growing up in the Tlingit community

to a prison at Camp McClellan in Davenport

and wild hope

with Ojibwe names

… Whitehead displays a clear love for the possibilities of written language

Translation and music by Susan Aglukark

and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes

chiefly at L'Anse (Michigan) on Keweenaw Bay