Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow was born on the Mattaponi Reservation in West Point

Focusing on the Albuquerque Indian School in New Mexico

" The book is concerned with nature

and tribal court judges

and reconciliation

Old School Indian indigenous crafts Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow wasA coming of middle age novel about an Ahkweshsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal. Abe Jacobs is Kanien'keh ka from Ahkweshsne or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen Abe left the reservation where he was raised and never looked back. Now forty three, Abe is suffering from a rare disease one his doctors in Miami believe will kill him. Running from his diagnosis and a failing marriage, Abe