Dragonfly Dance

Denise K. Lajimodiere is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa. She is an Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Out Steppin’ Out Steppin’ The Necklace Bag Balm The Quilt Indian Angel in 1st Grade Sweat Lodge St. Ignatius The Bundles of St. Ann’s The Reservation Dump Warm Morning at Ft. Totten My Grandfather Was a New Initiate The Moccasin Trail Ogichida Ikwewag Obodashkwanishi Dragonfly Dance Midnight in North Dakota To My Sister Automatic Starter The Warrior Boise Forte Man B.J. Northern Lights Night Owls Sonnet Oven Bread The Bush Dance The Bush Dance Prairie Chicks Portland, 1070s 1969 Shape Shifting Rugaroo Tracks Father Home from Happy Rock Happy Pills Hopeless Was the Ticker Tape Foster Father Mother Superior St. Peter, 1957 Oz Patent Leather Shoes Denver March The Eagles Dance The Eagles Dance Tonight the Train Grand Forks Sweet Water Well Holy Hamm’s Beer Drunkard’s Mass May 11, 1980 Uncle Gus and Aunt Veronica North Dakota North Dakota on a Sunny Thirty below Zero Day La Quette Kicking Thunder Answers Crazy Horse Round Danceby Red Lake Round Dance by Red Lake Starvation Winter, 1888 Sisters of War, Lacrosse Circles Kookum Sun Dogs Winter’s Night The Rain Was Warm and Mild Tribal Council Candidate Waabishi-ma’iingan Anishinaabe before Columbus Turtle Mountain Orchid Glossary Previously Published