Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel mystery the Great Lakes

the Great Lakes

a ceremony is held in honor of a baby's first laugh

Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe) is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and grew up on the White Earth Reservation

"What has become of the thousands of Indian voices who spoke the breath of boarding-school life

Sanaaq: An Inuit Novel mystery the Great LakesSanaaq is the intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the "qallunaat," the white people, in the mid nineteenth century. Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, and her daughter, Qumac, hunt seal, repair their kayak, and gather mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Theirs is a semi nomadic life on the edge of the ice where marriages are made and unmade, children are