Chickadee

ChickadeeBook four in The Birchbark House series. Twin brothers Chickadee and Makoons have spent every day side by side and have done everything together since they were bornuntil the day the unthinkable happens and the brothers are separated. Desperate to reunite, Chickadee and his family must travel across new territories, forge unlikely friendships, and experience both unexpected moments of unbearable heartache as well as pure happiness. And through it all,

the gentle lessons on tribal traditions the grandparents give

and devised ingenious strategies of passive resistance

of remembering our original relationship to the seeds and

and where she came from

from Hollywood westerns to the 1973 siege of Wounded Knee to (somewhat obscurely) the contemporary Indian art scene

game and fish

done on it

The discussion comes full circle when Adams reviews the government's gradual retreat from the assimilationist vision

with a great deal of humor

From the 1870s to the present day

but now they also had lives of leisure: purchasing large homes

Riggs also provides an ethnographic overview of various aspects of Dakota culture and history that enhances the value of the book to all students of Dakota