Rez Salute: The Real Healer Dealer

Rez Salute: The Real Healer Dealer

by Jim Northrup
Rez Salute: The Real Healer Dealer

Rez Salute: The Real Healer Dealer

by Jim Northrup

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Overview

Since 2001, Indian Country has seen great changes, touching everything from treaty rights to sovereignty issues to the rise (and sometimes the fall) of gambling and casinos. With unsparing honesty and a good dose of humor, Jim Northrup takes readers through the last decade, looking at the changes in Indian Country, as well as daily life on the rez.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781555917623
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Publication date: 10/01/2012
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jim Northrup is an award-winning journalist, poet, and playwright. He is a combat Vietnam veteran serving with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division in-country from September of 1965 until September of 1966. His syndicated column, Fond du Lac Follies, was named Best Column at the 1999 Native American Journalists Association convention, and he holds an honorary doctorate of letters from Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. His previous books include Rez Salute: The Real Healer Dealer, which received Honorable Mention from the 2013 Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards, and Walking the Rez Road: Stories, winner of the Midwest Book Achievement Award, Minnesota Book Award, and Northeastern Minnesota Book Award. He lives in Sawyer, MN.

Table of Contents

Foreword Margaret Noori xi

Preface: Fond du Lac Follies and a Writer's Life xvii

1 This Way Niswi-2002 1

2 Bundles Is One Year Young-2003 23

3 Moose Alert on Northrup Road-2004 45

4 Enough for a Shinnob, Not Enough for a Chimook-2005 59

5 Just Make Everyone Four-Fourths-2006 75

6 Pretending to Be Actors-2007 89

7 The Results Were Not So Pretty Good-2008 109

8 We Laughed Muchly-2009 139

9 Wife for Life Patricia-2010 171

10 Tickled a Little Moo Out of Me-2011 195

About the Author 221

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