This unique volume brings together for the first time three decades of short stories by one of the most innovative and exciting writers of our day

Baptism by blood

In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West

Blaeser’s poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together

whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences

Chief Bender's Burden language materials This unique volume brings togetherThe greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a contemporary, "the coolest pitcher in the game." Using a trademark delivery, an impressive assortment of pitches that may have included the game's first slider, and an apparently unflappable demeanor, he earned a reputation as baseball's great clutch pitcher during tight Deadball Era pennant races and in front of boisterous World Series crowds. More