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She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota

revitalize and persist

and how the two intersect in a meaningful vision of human life in relation to a greater reality

there Theresa gets to know a handsome Indian boy

Stories for a Lost Child farming and Coyote populate humorousThe summer before going into high school, Fiona receives a mysterious box in the mail, one that she hopes will answer her questions about her Anishinaabe Indian heritage. It contains stories written by the grandfather she never knew, an Anishinaabe man her mother refuses to talk about. As she reads his stories about blackbirds and bigfoot, as well as tales about Indians in space and homeless Native men camping by the river in Minneapolis, Fiona finds