Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, the side of the French Jesuit missionaries that came to live in what is now Ontario.

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case.

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?