In this bilingual book

Larry is a Dogrib Indian growing up in the small northern town of Fort Simmer

within the small town of Geshig at the hub of the rez

" —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

He doesn’t have any sober friends

Wiijiwaaganag: More Than Brothers sexuality In this bilingual bookNiizh Eshkanag is a member of the first generation of Anishinaabe children required to attend a U. S. government boarding school schools infamously intended to "kill the Indian and save the man," or forcibly assimilate Native students into white culture. At the Yardley Indian Boarding School in northern Minnesota, far from his family, Niizh Eshkanag endures abuse from the school staff and is punished for speaking his native language. After his family