The Trickster Shadow

The Trickster ShadowFrom an acclaimed Ojibwe artist comes a story that offers an empowering universal message about finding inner strength. Zoon's shadow is always in his way. It makes a mess of his room, disrupts his class at school, and trips him on the soccer field. Zoon doesn't know what to do! Until he tells his grandmother about it, and she gives him his grandfather's drum. Its rhythm is like a heartbeat. If only Zoon can listen to the drum's song, and ultimately

running away with the circus

sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity

This is Ojibwe entertainment at its finest

"Rich in poems which enhance our awareness of the human complexity of our social and moral dilemmas

The statue commemorates the heroism of Sgt

Pia and the other kids behold her Native pride on an international stage

and nothing but the truth

not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place

he must confront the man known as Benny the Bank

and interpret at the ancient petroglyphs and pictographs made my Native Americans in past millennia

Housty’s poems are textural—blossoms

As they hatch