but others plotted escapes

relocations to reservation lands

fell in love with the beautiful Hunku and begged the Great Spirit to turn him into a man

A noted Blackfeet writer

It takes place during a time when animals did many of the things that people can do

Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir short stories but others plotted escapes"A fascinating search for personal and cultural identity." Kirkus Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an