indigenous wisdom

it might give birth to new forms

the shifts and metamorphoses in Erdrich's fiction

deeply rooted in the land and the seasons and in a reverence for the customs handed down from the Long Ago People

Spanning more than 400 years

Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood Lakota indigenous wisdomBead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her "books" and wove their stories into her own. Like her ancestors, she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains. She participated in coming of age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads