Instruments of the True Measure

Instruments of the True MeasureInstruments of the True Measure charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and culture. Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present. Shawnee history informs the collection, and Da's fascination with uncovering and recovering brings the reader deeper into the narrative of Shawnee homeland. Images of forced removal and frontier violence reveal the

This unique volume—based on the historical perspectives of the state’s Native peoples—includes compact tribal histories of the Ojibwe

Filled with humor

But when everyone else is on Evan's side

circumscribed by the home

who had been presumed dead

an artist note

More than 10

In this moving middle-grade novel drawing upon Umpqua author Charlene Willing McManis's own tribal history

Dorothy remembers an older sister coming home from boarding school

and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her

What emerges in Sword's Lakota narratives are the formulaic patterns inherent in the Lakota language that are used to tell the narratives

”—Lynne Rossetto Kasper