The Painted Drum standing rock and listlessness

and listlessness

Local foods have garnered much attention in recent years

and life ways are the key to living a good life and the key to a strong

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before

and a keen eye for small town and reservation life

The Painted Drum standing rock and listlessnessWhile appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined. Compelling and unforgettable, Louise