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Angel Wing Splash Pattern
by author: Richard Van Camp.
Explore the healing going on in Indian country.
There is pain in these stories and there is loss. There is death, but there is also rebirth, and there is always the search from each of the narrators for personal truth. Readers will recognize Larry Sole from "The Lesser Blessed" in his story "How I Saved Christmas", but there are new voices here, new secrets, from new characters in communities across the north and the south, yet they are all linked by themes of hope, the spirit of friendship, and hunger.
Honour Earth Mother
by author: Basil Johnston.
He writes of the real world at a time when reality seems to be disappearing from our vision. He knows what his ancestors have always known, that the only way to live on earth is to be a part of it. His new book is a remarkable examination of the connection of human beings to the Earth Mother.
"I heartily recommend it."
- Farley Mowat
Living in Harmony - The Anishinaubaemowin series
by author: Basil Johnston.
“In late August the birds that migrate for the winter begin to gather in flocks. How soon or late they gather will reflect how soon or late winter will set in, but it will always take place in conjunction with the setting of autumn. It is the voice of Mother Earth pulsating through the plants to the insects, birds, and animals, letting them know that it is time to go. What insects, birds and animals do in answer to Mother Earth’s beckoning is nothing more nor nothing less than it is time to do this because this is taking place.”
– Exerpt from Introduction by Basil Johnston
Skins
By Author: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
“An absolutely absorbing collection.” Philip Adams, Australian Broadcasting Corp.
This is an eclectic and non-representative mixture that serves well as a partial survey of the range of types of contemporary aboriginal writing. Included is Sherman Alexie's satiric dystopian narrative poem on how Indians provided the cure to cancer; Alootook Ipellie's story of a struggle between Innu shamans over a matter of adultery; Kimberly Blaeser's story about feuding brothers which ends with their re-union while facing a fire and a rogue a skunk at a fancy dog contest; and Louise Erdrich's story "Gramp Kaspaw's Ghost" (from Love Medicine), which like much of her other writing, addresses the links between spirit, earth and the self.
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