they have no idea that they are soon to encounter a mermaid

and sovereignty issues

and Toni Morrison

and many flee to the Northwest

It affects and connects us all

White Birch, Red Hawthorn Muscogee (Creek) they have no idea thatThis is conquered land. The Dakota womans words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphys search for the