Eldon tells his son the story of his own life—from an impoverished childhood to combat in the Korean War and his shell-shocked return

In a new collection that is "a force of nature" (Amy Gerstler)

the book recovers both the too-often overlooked Anishinaabeg roots and corporate origins of Grand Marais

and customs to another

Taken together

Instruments of the True Measure voices Eldon tells his son theInstruments of the True Measure charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and culture. Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present. Shawnee history informs the collection, and Da's fascination with uncovering and recovering brings the reader deeper into the narrative of Shawnee homeland. Images of forced removal and frontier violence reveal the