An engaging and masterful collection of essays that vividly captures the author's diverse work as award-winning writer, activist, parent, scholar, professor, anthropologist, critic, and traveler.
Packing up --
Family occasions. Sundays --
The contest --
Father's Day --
The New York hat --
The train cake --
A second adoption --
Growing up --
Mice --
Rites of passage. On the road --
The quest for pie --
The sentry --
Everybody's children. Thankfulness --
Fetal alcohol syndrome : a national perspective --
Fetal alcohol syndrome : a parent's perspective --
Crossing the line --
Crazy Horse Malt Liquor --
The power of love --
Indians. "I" isn't for "Indian" --
Indians on the shelf --
Rewriting history --
Discoveries --
The grass still grows, the rivers still flow : contemporary Native Americans --
The hundred year war for White Earth --
Learning from mistakes. For Indians, no Thanksgiving --
Native American literature in an ethnohistorical context --
Mr. Reagan and the Indians --
Dances with Indians --
Opened doors. Beating the system --
Trusting the words --
Summer reading --
Word from the front --
House of stone --
Little fears --
Going places. Americans all --
Martyrs --
Pen pals --
The forgotten algebra test nightmare --
Life stories --
Home. The cherry tree --
Three yards --
Real and true estate --
Maintaining a home --
Cutting grass
An engaging and masterful collection of essays that vividly captures the author's diverse work as award-winning writer, activist, parent, scholar, professor, anthropologist, critic, and traveler.
Packing up --
Family occasions. Sundays --
The contest --
Father's Day --
The New York hat --
The train cake --
A second adoption --
Growing up --
Mice --
Rites of passage. On the road --
The quest for pie --
The sentry --
Everybody's children. Thankfulness --
Fetal alcohol syndrome : a national perspective --
Fetal alcohol syndrome : a parent's perspective --
Crossing the line --
Crazy Horse Malt Liquor --
The power of love --
Indians. "I" isn't for "Indian" --
Indians on the shelf --
Rewriting history --
Discoveries --
The grass still grows, the rivers still flow : contemporary Native Americans --
The hundred year war for White Earth --
Learning from mistakes. For Indians, no Thanksgiving --
Native American literature in an ethnohistorical context --
Mr. Reagan and the Indians --
Dances with Indians --
Opened doors. Beating the system --
Trusting the words --
Summer reading --
Word from the front --
House of stone --
Little fears --
Going places. Americans all --
Martyrs --
Pen pals --
The forgotten algebra test nightmare --
Life stories --
Home. The cherry tree --
Three yards --
Real and true estate --
Maintaining a home --
Cutting grass