Making Love with the Land: Essays

Making Love with the Land: EssaysA moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world. The novel Jonny Appleseed established Joshua Whitehead as one of the most exciting and important new literary voices on Turtle Island, winning both a Lambda Literary Award and Canada Reads 2021. In Making Love with the Land, his first nonfiction book, Whitehead explores the relationships between body, language, and land through creative essay, memoir, and

Among the most memorialized women in American history

they provide belonging and nurture humanity

Includes full-color images of the dishes and of objects from the museum's collection

he shows objective compassion for those caught inbetween the governments’ wishes and those of the people

Each of these humble but powerful people teaches children to believe in the “genius and brilliance” of Dakota culture as a way of surviving historical trauma

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The Dancers is a heart-warming story about a young Native girl

new life comes

who proved themselves to be among the bravest

Ray Young Bear

troops built Fort Snelling on the bluff above the rivers

Turning the traditional Western on its head