New launch of Winona LaDuke’s 25th Anniversary Edition of Last Standing Woman.

It is, “hopeful, irreverent, and deeply moving, Winona LaDuke’s, “Last Standing Woman,” chronicles the stories and struggles of an Anishinaabe community across seven generations. 

In this highly anticipated 25th anniversary edition of the debut novel, Winona LaDuke weaves a nonlinear narrative of struggle and triumph. Resistance and resilience, spanning sever generations from the 1800s to the early 2000s.

Born in the turn of the 21st Century, The Storyteller, also known as Ishkwewegaabawiikwe (Last Standing Woman), carries her peoples’ past within her memories. The White Earth Anishinaabe people have lived here on the same land for over thousand of years. Among the towering white pines and rolling hills, the people of each generation are born, live out their lives, and are buried.

The arrival of European missionaries change the community forever. Government policies begin to rob the people of their land, piece by piece. Missionaries and Indian agents work to outlaw ceremonies the Anishinaabe have practiced for centuries. Grave robbing anthropologists dig up ancestors and whisk them away to museums as artifacts. Logging operations destroy traditional sources of food, pushing the White Earth people to brink of starvation. 

Battling addiction, violence, and corruption, etc member of White Earth must find their own path of resistance as they struggle to reclaim stewardship of their land, bring their ancestors home, and stay connected to their culture and too each other. 

In this highly anticipated 25th anniversary edition of the debut novel, Winona LaDuke weaves a nonlinear narrative of struggle and triumph. Resistance and resilience, spanning seven generations from the 1800s to the early 2000s.

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Book Reviews:

“Fidelity to White Earth’s history, love for the Ojibwe language, and joy in the strength of women mark this enthralling new edition Winona LaDuke’s Last Standing Woman.”Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize - winning author

Published October 2023 - Authored by Winona LaDuke