A young Chippewa boy, in trying to learn his parents' whereabouts, hears narratives of his family history which spin back in time, intertwined with the tribe's history. The novel mixes history and myth, essay and poetry, social science and fiction to create a portrait of the author's own culture.
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A young Chippewa boy, in trying to learn his parents' whereabouts, hears narratives of his family history which spin back in time, intertwined with the tribe's history. The novel mixes history and myth, essay and poetry, social science and fiction to create a portrait of the author's own culture.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Very faint foxing on topedge, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny nick at the front flap fold. Volume 7 of the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series. A novel that explores Chippewa life and culture. The author is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe of Minnesota.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Foxing on the top page edge else near fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Native American literature.
The last Native American fiction work I read was Sherman Alexie's "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven. This work is similar, but more organized. It is essentially a series of vignettes about certain interconnected people on the reservation and some of the dreams they have and things that happen to them.
