poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest

infrastructure projects and other critical issues affecting their communities

Wilson has learned

a baby can still be found wrapped up and wide-eyed

and swim with the fish instead of get ready for bed

The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920 Chickasaw poetic memoir of a woman'sAn interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social, economic, and political relations among the Anishinaabeg and reveals how cultural forces outside of the reservation profoundly affected their lives.