Replete with universal lessons

where she cofounded America's oldest Indian-run museum

and the enduring love we hold for the people and places we are far away from

The New York Times Book Review

This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer

The Hiawatha humor Replete with universal lessonsAn elegy to the American dream, and to the sometimes tragic experience of the Native Americans who helped to build it, The Hiawatha is both a moving portrait of a family, and a fast paced, page turning literary mystery of murder and redemption. Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young children from their Ojibwe roots to make a new life in Minneapolis.