In Winter's Kitchen: Growing roots and breaking bread in the Northern Heartland science National Book Award-winning author Louise

National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines

describe features of Ojibway life

In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West

Placed in a government school to learn the ways of a white child

In Winter's Kitchen: Growing roots and breaking bread in the Northern Heartland science National Book Award-winning author LouiseBeth Dooley arrived in Minnesota from her native New Jersey with preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene. Having learned to cook in her grandmothers kitchen, shopping at farm stands, and making preserves, she couldnt help but wonder, Do people here really eat swampy broccoli, iceberg lettuce, and fried chicken for lunch everyday? These assumptions quickly faded as she began to explore farmers markets and the burgeoning co op scene in the Twin