Grandmother Moon (HC) [Barbara E Elgutaa] Sitka She is the daughter of

She is the daughter of a residential school survivor and is an unrelenting advocate for her community

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she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgmentand celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world

Dream Wheels: A Novel by Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese received the Canadian Author's Association Award for Fiction for 2007

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Grandmother Moon (HC) [Barbara E Elgutaa] Sitka She is the daughter ofBarbara E. Elgutaa is a member of the Oneida Nation from Wisconsin and is part of the Turtle Clan. Her maternal grandmother spoke Oneida language fluently as her first language. Her maternal grandfather's parents and siblings spoke Menominee. Her father, paternal grandfather and grandmother were all members of the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans and worked passionately to revitalize their culture. As a small child, she heard Oneida and Menominee