If I Ever Get Out Of Here

If I Ever Get Out Of Here"A heart healing, mocs on the ground story of music, family and friendship." Cynthia Leitich Smith Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their

by white soldiers who destroy her home and family

followers of the Ghost Dance sought to thrive in modern America by working for wages

It's a good way to travel

Here follows the story of a most extraordinary year in the life of an Ojibwe family and of a girl named "Omakayas

When Ho'onani finds out that there will be a school performance of a traditional kane hula chant

Montileaux retells the origins of the drum

environmental cleanup efforts in Alaska

and natural objects (including mountains

Erdrich's new work reflects her continuing concerns with the tensions between science and tradition

The language of the Dakota people was first put into written form by missionaries who lived within and learned from the Dakota community in the Minnesota River valley

internationally acclaimed artist and author of the Jane Addams Award-winning book This Land Is My Land

Many converted to varying degrees