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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.