Apple: Skin to the Core

Apple: Skin to the CoreHow about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way? The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras,

Steeped in the visual traditions of beadwork

helpful sled dogs for generations

personally and toward her new friends

Buckle up: The Trickster Riots journeys through fury and disaffection

The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property

Sullivan Sr

with a new preface by the author

one of the longest and most costly Native American conflicts in US history

trespassing

Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee)

when she met linguist Melville Jacobs while working for his student

and Calvin Atchavit and scrutinizes numerous misconceptions and popular myths about code talking and the secrecy surrounding the practice