Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings oral history A heartrendingly comic chronicle for

A heartrendingly comic chronicle for our times

Many Dakota people consider the area to be their sacred place of origin as well as a site of genocide

a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago—from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson

where ancestral knowledge offers invaluable lessons for a fulfilling existence

Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings oral history A heartrendingly comic chronicle forSerpents and Other Spiritual Beings is the second book in a series by renowned Ojibwe storyteller Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, following on The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories (2019). Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings is a collection of traditional Ojibwe Anishinaabe stories transliterated directly from Murdoch's oral storytelling. Part history, legend, and mythology, these are stories of tradition, magic and transformation, morality