Red Rooms

Red RoomsRed Rooms is a unique journey articulating the lives of the Native patrons of an urban hotel as seen through the eyes of the hotels cleaning lady. The characters face the crises in their lives in ways that are easily identifiable and not uncommon to Native people. What is unique about this collection of stories is Dimaline's sometimes cryptic, sometimes comedic, always compassionate and visionary housekeeper who offers hindsight, insight and foresight

how to capture the attention of listeners

including oral histories of the Anishinaabe people and personal reminiscences

Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described

but melded to imagination

making it truly one of a kind

according to most standard American narratives

In fifty short essays

revitalize and persist

and of the corrosive influence of shame

and racist motivations

Louise Phelps Kellogg

while Schrab offers the artist's experience