If Heart Berries is any indication

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian

is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man's mind

Written by Wahpetunwan Dakota scholar and activist Waziyatawin of Pezihutazizi Otunwe

Windy can tell such stories herself-about her dog

Love Medicine nations If Heart Berries is anySet on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, the first novel by bestselling, National Book Award winning author Louise Erdrich is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a