Kirjahaku

Three cultures, Native American, Euro-American and Metis come together in this 1934-2010 historical fiction. Setting: Great Lakes region, a pristine wilderness community. Dynamic interplay in love and conflicts, the story features Baby boomers in thier formative years. Thisn is the follow up companion to the book, "Hawk Dancer." The Elder prtagonists, Jacob Hawk Dancer (Ojibwe/Norwegian), and Job (Potawatomi)promote conciliation among races and classes of people. They mentor the youth of the 1960s through the Great American Civil Rights movement, American Indian Movement, and the Vietnam war era. The first ever Native American Franciscan Order is established, the Congregation of St. James. The kids come of age in the 70s and continue the work of inculturation, promotion of Indigenous cultures in the Churches and society. Eventualy, they are the elders. They see the passage of the American Indian Freedom of Religion Law, Aug. 11, 1978. Endearing but not soft and cuddly. Exciting, dramatic.

Short stories, this is the first of a series of "readers" featuring stories, poetry and art. Most feature the growing up years of Baby Boomers 1950 through the 1970s. Settings, for the most part are in the northern Great Lakes region, Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin. Several are works of historical fiction, others are simply folk tales. "Emerald Rising" is about two Native American teens escape from an 1880s era Indian Boarding School. "The Grocer" takes place in the early years of the Great Depression. "The Cure" is the Christmas miracle story that began my novels. "Car Keys" is a fourteen year old's mischief. "Erik Shoots the Train" is more foolery. "Fishing Hole" is a boy meets girl romance. It ends as a dangerous cliff hanger. Still more stories inside.

Two freinds establish a Native American Franciscan Friary during World War II in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Adventures carry through the 1960s and into 2009. A story of three cultures: Native, Euro-American and Metis. Modern Historical fiction.

Winter's jeweled forest is brought out in Joshua's poems and short story. Several favorite characters from his novels, "Hawk Dancer" and "Cloudburst" are included in these modern fiction works. Most of the setting is in the Northern Great Lakes small towns and woodlands. "Fritha" is a poem dedicated to and about my sister. "Wabanong Run" honors the Ojibwe run from Wisconsin's Lake Superior shore line to Washington DC in 1998, obtaining a favorable Supreme Court decission honoring treaties. The Jason Stories are aboiut a Baby Boomer teen in the 60's. "Like a Dog" is workplace office humor. Many more poems and stories.

Short stories of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Features baby boomer teens and young adults. Humorous, dramatic, historical fiction. Police finds Amos Crow's kayak days after he was ambushed. Odd sounding but a delicious pie recipe. Catching a goose in deer season by chance with no permit. Back woods living at its best.

Christmas miracles come in unexpected ways. A tiny locket, once thought lost, turns into a night of Mystery in "Christmas Suprise." The bumblings of a cute, diminutive Baby-boomer teen bring a chuckle in "Midnight Mass Madness." Read about Moses' funny inter-cultural encounter in Assisi, "Sins of the Italians." A child re-unites estranged neighbors in "The Cure" at Christmas time. Hear about "Christmas During the Termination Days," a true story of an Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin. Plus two reflections on the reason for the season.

Short stories about a village in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Modern historical and contemporary fiction. Delight is the blunderings and romances and friction among these Baby Boomer teens and young adults. Stories waver from traumatic to hilarious. Many of the author's regular characters are featured plus new characters have been developed for this 4th in a series of readers. Well illustrated.

Short stories on our favorite villagers continue. 29 year old T. Douglas found the father who left home the day he was born. Nora vies for his favor at the family reunion, while Neil tries to pick a fight with him in 1979. Douglas reminisces his two year ordeal dodging the high school bully (1965-67). Randy finds out his adoptive father is an illegal alien. Dean's antics back fire as he strives for his first diver's license. The author tells the true story of when he ran the US/Canadian border. Things get hairy when Jig and Jason are held at gun point in a case of mistaken identity by drug mob enforcers who need no witnesses. Olive, a six-foot-three girls' high school varsity pole vaulter falls for 5' 11" Douglas (at age 16) after witnessing his fight at a Church Youth Group picnic. Ethnic, racial and religious biases, tolerance and acceptance are interwoven in Bubba Junior's investigation of Birch Clump Village history. Bubba is a virtual orphan from a highly dysfunctional family taken under wing by Sarge.

Collection of short stories and art. This is a continuing series about mostly baby boomers in their teens and young adult years. Issues on bullying is covered; how it was then, and how we see things today. Amos comes home from Vietnam with a Purple Heart. Dean marries Amos' former girlfriend. Billy bullies Taya for two year straight before things come to a head at a Church picnic. Stories deal with Native Americans, Euro-Americans and Metis (mixed race) relations in modern times. Taya is mixed race, son of an unmarried white mother. Bubba is a whimsical young man from a very troubled family background. He served time in juvenile detention, but rises above adversity with Sarge's help. Most of the author's works promote Indigenous cultural rights and lends to improved inter cultural relationships. Moving, romantic at times, traumatic, tearful and humorous. Dean falls in the river while proposing marriage. Plenty of descriptive illustrations by the author.

Baby boomer, Tim Browne avoided the military because of a high draft number. Employers favored young men with high numbers of college deferments. He was an average, mainstream White Christian American guy until rumors pigeon holed him as a minority. He swiftly learned how violent life could be for a young minority male. Brownie-T, as he's often called, foils an armed robbery. His hero status is short lived when Derrick Geist from my novels returns as Tim's major protagonist. Jig Rajan, another regular in my books, aids a young mother of two with a flat tire and the love bug bites him. Her feelings for him are mutual, but there are complications as they consider marriage.