and redemption that seems at once modern and eternal

travels the old fur-trade routes and experiences the perilous era of the pemmican wars

Eric Gansworth

in this case Anishinaabemowin

harrowing tragedy

Power activity books and redemption that seems atThe novel opens on the night of an ominous storm. Omishto witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther an animal considered to be a sacred ancestor of the Taiga people. That single act will have profound consequences for Omishto. Suddenly, she is torn between her loyalties to her Westernized mother, who wants her to reject the ways of the tribe, and to Ama and her traditional people, for whom the killing of the panther takes on grave importance. But