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A new year has begun, and with it comes a crop of intriguing new books. From the first indigenous science fiction anthology, to studies of American Indian history, to a memoir or two, here is a sampling of what’s in store for the first few months of 2012.
Readers interested in the law awoke to a new find on January 1: erstwhile attorney and Turtle Talk blogger Matthew L.M. Fletcher’s The Eagle Returns: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Michigan State University Press). It may sound a tad scholarly for a post-holiday-torpor read, but the book itself covers beginnings, as it recounts the struggle of a group bound by kinship, geography and language to become self-governing again. It’s a handy reference for people who need to know more about how the Grand Traverse Band held its own to preserve its culture, language and other existential cornerstones in the face of legal and other intangible attempts to eradicate same.
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