Having survived World War I

even though this information often contradicted the ancient teachings of the Native American peoples

disabilities and fetal alcohol syndrome

shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives

the deaths of over six hundred children by the spring of 1864 were an unbearable tragedy

The Mother's Tongue coloring books Having survived World War IShortlisted for the Minnesota Book Awards 2006. Poems that consider and figure women's experiences of work, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering within the particular contexts of the prairie landscape, American Indian cultures and Ojibwe language recovery.