People of the Whale oral history it also documents how non-natives

it also documents how non-natives symbolically and legally appropriated Isle Royale by presenting it to fellow non-natives as an island that was uninhabited and unused

This is her story

For too long

legends told around a campfire—Eastman relates all aspects of the rich traditional life of the Santee Sioux

and Johnny runs to show her what he spotted near the ditch: a sleeping pheasant

People of the Whale oral history it also documents how non-nativesA powerful story of a Vietnam veteran torn between his war experience and his Native American community. Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both