The Hiawatha: A Novel

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Heartbeat at Wounded Knee, a Native American family's urban struggles are "[elevated] to the level of myth"(Newsday).

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. As Betty struggles to keep her family and her dignity intact, her younger son Lester finds romance on the soon-to-be-d...