Solar Storms

Solar StormsFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, Solar Storms tells the moving, luminous story of Angela Jenson, a troubled Native American girl coming of age in the foster system in Oklahoma, who decides to reunite with her family. At seventeen, Angela returns to the place where she was raiseda stunning island town that lies at the border of Canada and Minnesotawhere she finds that an eager developer is planning a hydroelectric dam that will leave sacred

” and “cold rain / field mice rattle the dishes / buson’s koto

from the homey moments shared over meals to the celebrations that mark life's great events

Some of the essays in this book open American Indian narratives to theoretical critique based on western depth models

assimilated

The stories they passed to new generations and outsiders reveal the fundamental philosophy of Blackfeet existence namely

and of the cruelty she and her sisters endured in residential school—as well as his many siblings and cousins

Takoza (granddaughter)

and the wisdom of female elders

The fort is a powerful reminder that most Minnesotans today are descendants of immigrants

This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies

and sent their children to study in Europe

anthropologists who had studied Anishinaabeg leadership practices developed theories about human societies and cultures derived from the perceived Anishinaabeg model