Shadow Travelers emphasizes the social, economic and cultural destruction instigated by capitalism, European invasion and governmental sanctions.
Sharon Brunner's "Shadow Travelers: The Plight of Native Americans in Michigan After European Invasion emphasizes the social, economic and cultural destruction instigated by capitalism and governmental sanctions. European fur trading entrepreneurs discovered a land of expansive financial opportunity. Native Americans braved freezing water to capture fur bearing animals for the fur traders while they were introduced to alcohol's numbing effects. Early European settlers introduced unique challenges of cultural disruption, betrayal, conflict and disease. The Michigan Territory became a state after the signing of the 1836 Treaty of Washington in which the Odawa and Chippewa people lost most of their homelands. Children and their parents perished due to forced relocation to reservations and boarding schools. As a result, of various hardships, Native American families were plagued with poverty, substance abuse, and many other social maladies influenced by ingrained historical discrimination and oppression. The book's protagonists, Eagle and Coyote, bring to life the hardships faced by the Native Americans in Michigan from the 1600s to the present.
Fleeing from a scorned past,Catherine Merit struggles with her failing medical practice and a rich man's obsession of her.Book Four in the Indignities Series
First Place Winner in historical fiction in the Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in children's literature, and named a U.P. Notable Classic.
Feel like you are in the moment nearly 100 years ago with a young girl, daughter of Finnish immigr
Third Book in Five Book Series - Southern Swallow - a tale of 12th Century China. Li K'ai-men becomes entangled in an intrigue that becomes his undoing.
