Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life Lakota This collection of Native-authored letters

This collection of Native-authored letters

Lyrically and lovingly written

"An important corrective to conventional narratives of our nation's history

Esther Belin

Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy—though you wouldn’t guess it by his name: his father is part white and part Lakota

Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life Lakota This collection of Native-authored lettersLife is a circle, just like the seasons, from youth through old age. The circle of the year brings seasonal rituals: a winter of preparation followed by a summer of powwows. Sharyl and Windy Downwind and their children travel from their home on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to powwows all around the region. For the past year, their oldest daughter, Shian, has been honored as junior princess for Bug o nay ge shig School. At the Leech Lake