Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story

Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving StoryIn this Wampanoag story told in a Native tradition, two kids from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe learn the story of Weechumun (corn) and the first Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving story that most Americans know celebrates the Pilgrims. But without members of the Wampanoag tribe who already lived on the land where the Pilgrims settled, the Pilgrims would never have made it through their first winter. And without Weechumun (corn), the Native people wouldn't

With depth and humour

resonant story with masterly finesse…memorable and satisfying

even if it tears apart the only world she's ever known

The Sacred Pipe

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perspectives upended

a remarkable woman whose extraordinary career deserves wider recognition

Water is the first medicine

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retribution

Natural Theologies: Essays about Literature of the New Middle West is the first critical study of contemporary Mid-Plains literature

so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material