face down in the laneway behind her house

or finding the universe in an eagle feather

Whitehead contemplates the role of theory

including her own ancestors

After being separated from his family at age 7

Sugar Bush Babies: Stories of My Ojibwe Grandmother Dakota face down in the lanewayA memoir of lessons learned from an Ojibwe grandmother during the time of Relocation. Why, her mother asked, did Janis keep running away from kindergarten? She wanted to go home. But not to the house they had just moved to in Duluth, with its gravel yard and traffic noise. She was a country girl, and home was the log cabin among the wildflowers on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Bena, Minnesota. Knowing they were now going to stay in the city,