My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation environment and events that have helped

and events that have helped shape America

Mann's language is as plainspoken and clear as it is provocative

imprisoned instead at Camp Kearney in Davenport

Sherman shares his approach to creating boldly seasoned foods that are vibrant

jealousy and unstinting love that explores with empathy

My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation environment and events that have helpedWhen Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth century. While telling her own familys stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Child examines