The Hiawatha plays exhilarating punk scene of the

exhilarating punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and the centering shores of her Coast Salish ancestors

A critical response to what has been called the “whiteness of sound studies

A first of its kind

near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior

"American Apartheid brilliantly defines the broken system of justice for Native people in the United States

The Hiawatha plays exhilarating punk scene of theAn elegy to the American dream, and to the sometimes tragic experience of the Native Americans who helped to build it, The Hiawatha is both a moving portrait of a family, and a fast paced, page turning literary mystery of murder and redemption. Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young children from their Ojibwe roots to make a new life in Minneapolis.