Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh: This Is How I Know crime studies Red Rooms is a unique

Red Rooms is a unique journey articulating the lives of the Native patrons of an urban hotel as seen through the eyes of the hotels cleaning lady

Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city

but the concept is hardly new: Indigenous peoples have always made the most of nature’s gifts

first published in 1929

the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century

Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh: This Is How I Know crime studies Red Rooms is a uniqueIn this lyrical story poem, written in Anishinaabemowin and English, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings. We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, then fall, when bears feast before hibernation and forest mushrooms are ripe for harvest. Winter mornings begin in darkness as deer, mice and other animals search for food, while