Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets

Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark BasketsThe Rez Road Follies captures Native American storyteller, poet, and performer Jim Northrup at his shrewdest and funniest. He tells of the key events of his own life: his childhood in a government boarding school, combat in Vietnam, confronting family tragedies, and becoming a grandfather or, as he says, almost an elder. Northrup writes with equal candor about the reservations poverty and racism on one hand, and its kinship and traditions on the

imposing on them the regimentation of Clock Time

She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium

The pervasive and growing presence of extreme economic inequality in America is a worsening condition

and histories that are unique to the Tlingit community

Join Paul and his teacher Mrs

resourceful

This book is packed with information and particularly valuable for the information on resistence in British Columbia at Ts'peten and at Aazhoodena

and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou—a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of native people's communities

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choosing pride in their ancestry over continued commercial reward

medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the natural world

and practical botanical tools