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persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles

Echo finds herself transported to another time and place—a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie—and back again

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Dwellings raven persuaded the federal government thatAward winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan explores her lifelong love of the living world and all its inhabitants. "We want to live as if there is no other place," Hogan tells us, "as if we will always be here. We want to live with devotion to the world of waters and the universe of life." In offering praise to sky, earth, water, and animals, she calls us to witness how each living thing is alive I n a conscious world with its own