A Blanket of Butterflies Nakota Momaday has an intimate connection

Momaday has an intimate connection to the land he knows well and loves deeply

to a prison at Camp McClellan in Davenport

Celebrated author Richard Wagamese artfully crafts these thrilling yet vulnerable stories of two young men trying to find their place in the world

he offers a breath of hope that our peoples might learn from each other

Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage

A Blanket of Butterflies Nakota Momaday has an intimate connectionNo one knows how a suit of samurai armour ended up in the Fort Smith museum. When a mysterious stranger turns up to claim it, Sonny, a young Tlch Dene boy, is eager to help. Shinobu has travelled to Fort Smith, NWT, to reclaim his grandfather's samurai sword and armour. But when he discovers that the sword was lost in a poker game, he must confront the man known as Benny the Bank. Along the way, Shinobu must rely on unlikely heroes Sonny, his