The Mother's Tongue cooking Both his parents are dead

Both his parents are dead

Writing from the vantage point of an American Indian woman

he played with toy bows and arrows in the tipi before learning to make and use them and became schooled in the ways of animals and in the properties of plants and herbs

especially its oral tradition

Meet Makoons and her friend Nigigoons

The Mother's Tongue cooking Both his parents are deadShortlisted for the Minnesota Book Awards 2006. Poems that consider and figure women's experiences of work, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering within the particular contexts of the prairie landscape, American Indian cultures and Ojibwe language recovery.