and furious reckoning

Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love

Through imaginative use of both Native language and European documents

waterways and coastlines

and was larger than any contemporary European city

The Painted Drum activism and furious reckoningWhile appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined. Compelling and unforgettable, Louise