White Birch, Red Hawthorn Diné (Navajo) uses these pieces of her

uses these pieces of her mother's life to try and understand her mother's relationship to home

Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith

'" --Don Aucoin

from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day

White Birch, Red Hawthorn Diné (Navajo) uses these pieces of herThis is conquered land. The Dakota womans words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphys search for the