The Cottonwood Sings canada award-winning poet and scholar Linda

award-winning poet and scholar Linda LeGarde Grover follows the story of a family

What Does Justice Look Like

an Ojibwe counselor

historical trauma

Yet there was a time when their voices and teachings were nearly drowned out

The Cottonwood Sings canada award-winning poet and scholar LindaThe Cottonwood Sings is the delightful story of the lovely Hunku (First Woman), who was immortal and never aged. The animals and plants loved her, but Hunku was lonely. Every day she would go to the riverbank and cry herself to sleep. Beaver, who lived in the river, fell in love with the beautiful Hunku and begged the Great Spirit to turn him into a man. The Great Spirit agreed, and Beaver became Takahe (First Man), but the Great Spirit told him that