The Light People

The Light PeopleTaking inspiration from traditional Anishinabe stories and drawing from his own family's storytelling tradition, Gordon Henry, Jr., has woven a tapestry of interlocking narratives in The Light People, a novel of surpassing emotional strength. His characters tell of their experiences, dreams, and visions in a multitude of literary styles and genres. Poetry, drama, legal testimony, letters, and essays combine with more conventional narrative techniques

"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed

this book vividly details the day-to-day experiences of Indian youth living in a "total institution" designed to reconstruct them both psychologically and culturally

and natural-resource conservation

voluntarily or through compulsion

Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire

they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband

and domestic pork and beef

training as an anthropologist

the words of Keewaydinoquay contain layers of understanding

Steltenkamp now provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk

Described as harmless

local food a reliable reality—the most crucial task of our time