Indian Boyhood queer studies Animal tracks

Animal tracks

Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants

but spiritually familiar

and the manuscript languished for seventy-five years in a California library

"No one can break your heart and fill it with light all in the same book — sometimes in the same paragraph — quite like Louise Erdrich

Indian Boyhood queer studies Animal tracksAt the beginning of Indian Boyhood Eastman recalls the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota that sent his family into exile in Canada. He describes his childhood there, which ended when his father, who had been presumed dead, appeared to take him back to the United States. An Indian boy's training, child hood games, harvesting and feasts, legends told around a campfireEastman relates all aspects of the rich traditional life of the Santee Sioux, which had