Wandering Stars

Wandering Stars"No one knows how to express tenderness and yearning like Tommy Orange. With an all seeing heart, he traces historical and contemporary cruelties, vagaries, salvations and solutions visited upon young Cheyenne people, who cope with the impossible. In them, Tommy finds the unnerving strength that results when a broken spirit mends itself, when a wandering star finds its place, when, in spite of everything, Native people manage to survive." Louise

"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed

It leads him far from home

When Jake finally gets a puppy to call his own

Why does her grandmother have long

from her childhood and performance career to her days as a respected elder of the multi-tribal New York City Indian Community

involving powerful spirit-beings in serpent form

Abe Jacobs is Kanien'kehá ka from Ahkwesáhsne--or

Gregory Cajete’s books and lectures have represented one of the most consistently exploratory

as if it doesn’t count somehow

Tswb eventually crossed paths with the man who would become her future husband

"Erdrich’s inspired portrait of her own tribe’s resilient heritage masterfully encompasses an array of characters and historical events

and their culture from precontact times to the present