Makoons

MakoonsThe 5th book in the Birchbark House Series. In the sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich continues her award winning Birchbark House series with the story of an Ojibwe family in nineteenth century America. Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear, Makoons and his twin, Chickadee, have traveled with their family to the Great Plains of Dakota Territory. There they must learn to become buffalo hunters and once again help their people make

natural motion

helpful sled dogs for generations

humiliation

(Summer Beaver) 500 kilometers north of Thunder Bay in Northern Ontario

and make us just plain hungry

and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race

Leslie Marmon Silko

Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination

a novel so prescient that though it conjures an alternate reality

Zitkála-Sá adapts to her environment—excelling at her studies

Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land

"— New Yorker