more than anything

Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother for a magical solution to his romantic dilemma—on sacred ground where a federally sanctioned bingo palace is slated for construction

it also documents how non-natives symbolically and legally appropriated Isle Royale by presenting it to fellow non-natives as an island that was uninhabited and unused

painter Lisa Fifield and writer Lise Erdrich honor their Native American tradition in their own unique ways

through her adulthood

My Indian Boyhood drum more than anythingAlthough the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as Plenty Kill, young Standing Bear belonged to the Western Sioux tribe that inhabited present day North and South Dakota. In My Indian Boyhood he describes the home life and education of Indian children.