and Lazarusie and the Polar Bears reveals just how finely attuned the relationship between animals and humans can be

They consider Dakota interactions with Europeans and offer an in-depth “reading between the lines” of historical documents—some of them virtually unknown—and treaties made with the United States

The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation

" Margaret realizes she is now marked as an outsider

In this important collection award-winning author Louise Erdrich has selected poems from her two previous books of poetry

A Dakota-English Dictionary thriller and Lazarusie and the PolarAlong with An English Dakota Dictionary, this remains the most comprehensive and accurate lexicon available. This Dakota English dictionary was sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society when it was first published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852. The editor, Stephen R. Riggs (1812 83), had worked with Samuel and Gideon Pond and Dr. Thomas S. Williamson to create the dictionary as well as prayer books and hymnals. All four men were