Good for Nothing Mohawk "I have learned more about

"I have learned more about this battered world from reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson than from almost any writer alive today

and should be transparent for native speakers of Blackfoot as well as for linguists

Both stories follow the lives of young men who have dreams for a better future

the stories reflect a rare authenticity as they transmit cultural values

When Basil Johnston began teaching the Anishinaubae language in the late 1960s

Good for Nothing Mohawk "I have learned more aboutThe year is 1959, and fifteen year old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he can look forward, like all Native Americans, to a life of drunkenness, prison, and despair. But despite his new freedom, the reserve offers little to a young Mtis man. Both his parents are dead, his father Shipu, a respected leader, dying mysteriously at a young age. When Nipishish is