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a grandmother and medicine healer in the Crow tribe

Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil

and humor--much as Grover spins another tale of Mozhay Point

practiced by Ojibwe children and their parents

10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement

Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage animals a grandmother and medicine healerA dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their time Like any set of star crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaimed childhood poet from a remote corner of the Massachusetts Berkshires, traveled to the Dakota Territories to teach Native American students, undaunted by society's admonitions. Charles, a Dakota Sioux from Minnesota, educated at Dartmouth and Boston