Seven Aunts Healing when Blair Rudes first began

when Blair Rudes first began his research

Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers

an Indigenous Rights advocate

In this safe setting the author allows the curious young girl ask her grandmother about Kokum's brightly coloured dresses

Seven Aunts Healing when Blair Rudes first beganStaci Lola Drouillard is a descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe, and lives and works in her hometown of Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. In Seven Aunts, the aunts were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babiesand there were so