this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer

of childhood recaptured in the reflection of a shiny blue woodstove

the medicine wheel

the details of their identification and harvest

largely cobeneficial relationship

Small Ceremonies environment this book comes out ofA poignant and heart wrenching coming of age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg, Manitoba's North End, illuminating what it's like to grow up in the heart of an Indigenous city. Word on the street is that this is the Tigers' last season. For Tomahawk "Tommy" Shields, an Indigenous, image obsessed high school student from Winnipeg, the potential loss of his team serves