The Beet Queen decolonization With Beth Dooley

With Beth Dooley

Jim Northrup makes me proud to be Ojibwe and grateful I can read about it

and a rallying cry for the preservation of priceless languages and cultures

Accompanied by beautiful illustrations by Luke Swinson and an author’s note at the end

and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota

The Beet Queen decolonization With Beth DooleyOn a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle, and seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival, embark upon an exhilarating life journey crowded with colorful, unforgettable characters and marked by the extraordinary magic of