Paper Trail: Essays

An engaging and masterful collection of essays that vividly captures the author's diverse work as award-winning writer, activist, parent, scholar, professor, anthropologist, critic, and traveler.Packing up --Family occasions. Sundays --The contest --Father's Day --The New York hat --The train cake --A second adoption --Growing up --Mice --Rites of passage. On the road --The quest for pie --The sentry --Everybody's children. Thankfulness --Fetal alcohol syndrome : a national perspective --Fetal alcohol syndrome : a parent's perspective --Crossing the line --Crazy Horse Malt Liquor --The power of love --Indians. "I" isn't for "Indian" --Indians on the shelf --Rewriting history --Discoveries --The grass still grows, the rivers still flow : contemporary Native Americans --The hundred year war for White Earth --Learning from mistakes. For Indians, no Thanksgiving --Native American literature in an ethnohistorical context --Mr. Reagan and the Indians --Dances with Indians --Opened doors. Beating the system --Trusting the words --Summer reading --Word from the front --House of stone --Little fears --Going places. Americans all --Martyrs --Pen pals --The forgotten algebra test nightmare --Life stories --Home. The cherry tree --Three yards --Real and true estate --Maintaining a home --Cutting grass