The Mother's Tongue

The Mother's TongueShortlisted for the Minnesota Book Awards 2006. Poems that consider and figure women's experiences of work, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering within the particular contexts of the prairie landscape, American Indian cultures and Ojibwe language recovery.

Spare and compact yet undeniably rich

Jonny's world is a series of breakages

Many people learn about Indigenous politics only through the most controversial and confrontational news: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s efforts to block the Dakota Access Pipeline

"Each story — almost without exception — is positive and uplifting

In the Lakota way

and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman

Raven and Loon were both white

How do you help young children learn more about Native Americans than the cultural stereotypes found in children's books and in the media

Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior

Using the available anthropology and history of the Indian tribes during their confinement to reservations

In its extraordinary range of character and culture

The hills we climb along the way are the challenges we face and the responsibilities we accept