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The book highlights the rich cultural heritage of the Anishinaabe people, known for their lyrical songs and stories featuring the compassionate trickster, naanabozbo. It explores their enduring healing rituals within the Midewiwin society. Gerald Vizenor, a prominent Anishinaabe author, reinterprets poems and tales originally documented over a century ago by ethnographer Frances Densmore and newspaper editor Theodore Hudson Beaulieu, offering a contemporary perspective on these traditional narratives from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.