Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional

and of how the Lenapé people came to live along the eastern seaboard of what is now known as the United States

Timeless children songs such as Old MacDonald and You Are My Sunshine sung in Ojibwe

Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s

Dreaming our Futures: Ojibwe and Ochéthi Šakówiƞ Artists and Knowledge Keepers two-spirit Author Virginia Beavert grew upDreaming Our Futures features twenty eight Native painters, primarily Dakota and Ojibwe, who live in the Midwest or have family or tribal connections here. The artists represent a range of generations, professional experience, and genresincluding traditional, historical, contemporary, and conceptual themes. The volume presents full color reproductions of art by each painter, along with bilingual artist statements, biographies, and essays on the