Broken Fields (A Cash Blackbear Mystery) visual arts the challenge of translation offers

the challenge of translation offers multiple levels of meaning—English meanings found in Anishinaabe words long as rivers and knotted like nets

his hair frozen into the snow

She selflessly cared for strangers

it’s easier with a loved one at her side

Weaving together life's biggest themes with observations and experiences

Broken Fields (A Cash Blackbear Mystery) visual arts the challenge of translation offersCash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman and occasional sleuth, is back on the case after a man is found dead on a rural Minnesota farm in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series. Minnesota, 1970s: It's spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing fieldwork for a local farmer until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property's rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native field laborer, and his wife are nowhere to be