Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

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Knopf Canada, Mar 9, 2010 - Fiction - 368 pages
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
 
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
9
Section 3
18
Section 4
24
Section 5
35
Section 6
57
Section 7
66
Section 8
73
Section 16
159
Section 17
176
Section 18
186
Section 19
207
Section 20
218
Section 21
233
Section 22
251
Section 23
260

Section 9
81
Section 10
93
Section 11
101
Section 12
110
Section 13
123
Section 14
135
Section 15
146
Section 24
276
Section 25
304
Section 26
320
Section 27
339
Section 28
344
Section 29
347
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

Anishnawbe asked Beer Bay bike bones brother called coffee Dakota dancing dinner door dreamcatcher dreams Elvira eyes felt forest front fuck girl grabbed grandmother hand heard helmet iambic pentameter Indian Chief INDIAN MOTORCYCLE inukshuk island John John Clayton John Frum John Tanner John's Kait kids kilometres kind knew land laughed Lillian listened looked Maggie Maggie's man's martial art metres mother motorcycle Nanabush Native never night nodded Ojibway Okay once Otter Lake petroglyphs pretty raccoons remember riding road rock Sammy Aandeg Sammy's seemed smiled somewhere sorry sound stood story stranger stuff sure sweetgrass talk tell there's things thought tire told took tree trying turned Uncle Wayne Virgil voice waiting walked watched Wayne's Weatherford weird what's White window woman wondered Yeah

About the author (2010)

DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR has done many things, most of which he is proud of.  An Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario, he has worn many hats in his career, from performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., to being Artistic Director of Canada’s premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts.  He has been an award-winning playwright (with over 100 productions of his work), a journalist/columnist (appearing regularly in several Canadian newspapers, magazines, and news networks), short story writer, novelist, television scriptwriter, and has worked on over 20 documentaries exploring the Native experience including the popular Searching for Winnetou.  His documentary series on APTN, Going Native, is in its third year.  The author of 34 books, he looks forward to finding out where his imagination will take him next.

Bibliographic information

TitleMotorcycles & Sweetgrass
AuthorDrew Hayden Taylor
PublisherKnopf Canada, 2010
ISBN0307373991, 9780307373991
Length368 pages
Subjects › 

Fiction / Indigenous
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Small Town & Rural
  
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