Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition"Straightforward, fascinating, funny, and often wise, Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask is a wonderful resource for non Indians and Indians too. (There are plenty of things we want to know about each other.) It is that rare thingan informational and entertaining read." Louise Erdrich From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non Native

to hear the echo of grandmother's breath

Philip Deloria explores this cultural discordance to show how stereotypes and Indian experiences have competed for ascendancy in the wake of the military conquest of Native America and the nation's subsequent embrace of Native "authenticity

Three Sisters Stew

But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies

the colonial obsession with "civility" belied the reality that the Iroquois

tying this knowledge with current scientific advances

Bailey divides the stories into sacred teachings

Complemented with stunning photographs

like every other culture

Restoration ecology is grounded in an idea that we must return the natural world to an untouched

when studying Indigenous peoples was primarily the domain of non-Indigenous scholars

a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear