Dancing for Our Tribe : Potawatomi Tradition in the New Millennium Nakoda is a work of fiction

is a work of fiction set in the ’90s in a small Canadian prairie town and fourteen-year-old Aaron Gourlay

This work includes a note on terminology

Colin Grier

and fantasies about

estimated he had made more than 60 canoes

Dancing for Our Tribe : Potawatomi Tradition in the New Millennium Nakoda is a work of fictionIn the heyday of the Anishinaabe Confederacy, the Potawatomis spread across Canada, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Pressured by the westward expansion of the fledgling United States of America, they became the most treatied of any Indian tribe. Forced removals and multiple treaty era relocations resulted in cultural chaos and an enduring threat to their connections to the ancestors. Despite these hardships, they have managed to maintain