White Birch, Red Hawthorn humor sustainable food systems and Indigenous

sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights

Indigenous relationships to the life of song are here sustained in writing that finds resonance in the intersubjective experience between listener

You will find much sadness just below the laughs

As a storyteller

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White Birch, Red Hawthorn humor sustainable food systems and IndigenousThis is conquered land. The Dakota womans words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphys search for the