Stories for a Lost Child animals were forcibly displaced

were forcibly displaced

Everyone is welcome in the circle

and the community that binds us

The animals scatter

The buzzards refused

Stories for a Lost Child animals were forcibly displacedThe summer before going into high school, Fiona receives a mysterious box in the mail, one that she hopes will answer her questions about her Anishinaabe Indian heritage. It contains stories written by the grandfather she never knew, an Anishinaabe man her mother refuses to talk about. As she reads his stories about blackbirds and bigfoot, as well as tales about Indians in space and homeless Native men camping by the river in Minneapolis, Fiona finds