Back to the Blanket: a Native Narrative of Discovery. This item is unavailable.Back to the Blanket: a Native Narrative of Discovery

Inspired by the events of this Native American author’s family, this creative non-fiction narrative chronicles seven generations of his Ojibwe “roots”. But just as importantly, it places the events within the context of a tumultuous time in American History—a time when Western European civilization was gaining enormous inroads in the Americas and leaving in its wake a devastating clash of cultures. But this story is not about the typical Indian-White confrontation—bloody, violent, avaricious Indian battles. It reveals a more subtle, yet just as deleterious, subjugation of a people through the proliferation of White trade goods, overzealous missionaries, diseases for which there were no cures, and the most contemptible allurement of all—alcohol. Back to the Blanket is a story of tragedy, shame, pride, perseverance, hope and survival which begins in 1988 when the author undergoes a life threatening bone marrow transplant for leukemia, a deadly blood disease. Durin

For the past 35 years, James Starkey has been a successful English and Social Sciences teacher in Washington State. He is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and has written two plays: The Spirit: An American Tragedy and

Mourning Comes at Dawn, which earned for him the Valley Forge Teacher’s Medal. He has two adult children and lives in a suburb of Seattle with Janie, his wife of 38 years.
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