the Lac Courte Oreilles tribe is today one of the most progressive native groups in the United States

Contemporary and authentic

and loss for the Minnesota Ojibway

Metis and Inuit communities from the 1920s through the 1970s

Mihesuah was a member of a family of farmers who gave part of what they grew to black sharecroppers and often helped feed their poorer white neighbors

Klara and the Sun music the Lac Courte Oreilles tribe"What stays with you in 'Klara and the Sun' is the haunting narrative voice a genuinely innocent, egoless perspective on the strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status and fear." Booker Prize committee Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street