Hunter with Harpoon staff pick University of Illinois American Indian

University of Illinois American Indian Studies and the Native American House

and vibrant book

her split vision of science and soul

Yellow Bird is an exquisitely written

On an Ojibwe reservation called Languille Lake

Hunter with Harpoon staff pick University of Illinois American IndianPublished fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on