The Mother's Tongue cooking he played with toy bows

he played with toy bows and arrows in the tipi before learning to make and use them and became schooled in the ways of animals and in the properties of plants and herbs

Meet Makoons and her friend Nigigoons

From rapping about land and water rights from Flint to Standing Rock

Both his parents are dead

who for decades has been leading efforts to preserve the rich linguistic heritage of the world

The Mother's Tongue cooking he played with toy bowsShortlisted for the Minnesota Book Awards 2006. Poems that consider and figure women's experiences of work, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering within the particular contexts of the prairie landscape, American Indian cultures and Ojibwe language recovery.