Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets cooking the reclamation of land

the reclamation of land

cultivated and wild vegetables

" (Tampa Bay Times)

She does it again

reading this book is as uplifting as watching the play of wings across a summer sky

Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets cooking the reclamation of landThe Rez Road Follies captures Native American storyteller, poet, and performer Jim Northrup at his shrewdest and funniest. He tells of the key events of his own life: his childhood in a government boarding school, combat in Vietnam, confronting family tragedies, and becoming a grandfather or, as he says, almost an elder. Northrup writes with equal candor about the reservations poverty and racism on one hand, and its kinship and traditions on the