Drowning in Fire religion An interdisciplinary history of an

An interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social

which stands in stark contrast to the politics of cultural recognition

which declared that "Indians" were "all other persons of one-half or more Indian blood

University of Minnesota Duluth

and the waters over millennia

Drowning in Fire religion An interdisciplinary history of anJosh Henneha has always been a traveler, drowning in dreams, burning with desires. As a young boy growing up within the Muskogee Creek Nation in rural Oklahoma, Josh experiences a yearning for something he cannot tame. Quiet and skinny and shy, he feels out of place, at once inflamed and ashamed by his attraction to other boys. Driven by a need to understand himself and his history, Josh struggles to reconcile the conflicting voices he hearsfrom the