Johnny's Pheasant

Johnny's PheasantAn encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma. "Pull over, Grandma! Hurry!" Johnny says. Grandma does, and Johnny runs to show her what he spotted near the ditch: a sleeping pheasant. What Grandma sees is a small feathery hump. When Johnny wants to take it home, Grandma tries to tell him that the pheasant might have been hit by a

a place of strategic power

and other more than human relations can teach us

There There is a comic vision haunted by profound sadness

and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction

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In addition to publicly accessible sites such as Wisconsin's Roche-a-Cri State Park and Minnesota's Jeffers Petroglyphs

Demonstrating the rich possibilities of treating age as a category of analysis

especially its oral tradition

Montileaux retells the origins of the drum

Her journey links ancient stone paintings with a magical island where a bookish recluse built an extraordinary library

Shawnee history informs the collection