and reconciliation

the narrative highlights Cherokee values including education

and tribal court judges

The collection illuminates the creative process

Focusing on the Albuquerque Indian School in New Mexico

Old School Indian indigenous crafts and reconciliationA coming of middle age novel about an Ahkweshsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal. Abe Jacobs is Kanien'keh ka from Ahkweshsne or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. Now forty three, Abe is suffering from a rare disease one his doctors in Miami believe will kill him. Running from his diagnosis and a failing marriage, Abe