mother Haida The role of the "berdache

The role of the "berdache

Anton Treuer focuses on interactions with other tribes

Come along for the ride to Kamloopa

Her work on Native languages began at age twelve

like the rest of his family

mother Haida The role of the "berdacheA stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity. mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family's history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained on the