Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets cooking Dispatches of radical political engagement

Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline

cultivated and wild vegetables

the Inupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity as they embrace the processes of globalization

By turns elegiac and erotic

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Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets cooking Dispatches of radical political engagementThe Rez Road Follies captures Native American storyteller, poet, and performer Jim Northrup at his shrewdest and funniest. He tells of the key events of his own life: his childhood in a government boarding school, combat in Vietnam, confronting family tragedies, and becoming a grandfather or, as he says, almost an elder. Northrup writes with equal candor about the reservations poverty and racism on one hand, and its kinship and traditions on the