Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city

and their languages

Cochrane uses a variety of sources: Ojibwe oral narratives

whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences

LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people's relationship and mode of interaction with the "invisible reality" of the supernatural world

Muskrat and Skunk: A Lakota Drum Story Tohono O'odham Off the reserve and tryingEnglish alongside Lakota translation by Agnes Gay. Perfect Reading for Ages Five and Up. Animals stop and listen. A new sound is in the forest. The beat vibrates through the trees and across the meadows. What is it? Where is it coming from? Muskrat and Skunk thump on a hollow log BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Birds begin to dance. Buffalo and Antelope join in. There is a rustle in the bushes; a large shape emerges. The animals scatter. Muskrat and Skunk drum on.