My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation Ojibwe Louise Erdrich—winner of the 2012

Louise Erdrich—winner of the 2012 National Book Award and a writer of astonishing insight and skill—discovers the universal within the particular moment and gives full-bodied expression to that most common and yet most mysterious of all human tasks: the passing on of life

Champion bull-rider Joe Willie Wolfchild is poised to win the most sought after title in rodeo when a devastating accident at the National Finals leaves his body and ambitions in tatters

Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could

and by the transient nature of the seasons in native dream songs and haiku

Their letters

My Grandfathers Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation Ojibwe Louise Erdrich—winner of the 2012When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth century. While telling her own familys stories from the Red Lake Reservation, as well as stories of Ojibwe people around the Great Lakes, Child examines