and culture of the Dakota Indians is the result of many years of linguistic study and personal experience spent in Minnesota by Stephen R

a gorgeous book that traces Chartrand's culinary journey from his childhood in Central Alberta

declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense

and Toni Morrison

and sovereignty issues

White Birch, Red Hawthorn Muscogee (Creek) and culture of the DakotaThis is conquered land. The Dakota womans words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphys search for the