Title: My mother is now Earth
Description: With an innocent and sometimes brutal child's view, Rolo recounts stories of a woman who battles poverty, depression, her abusive husband, and isolation through the long northern Minnesota winters, and of himself, her son, who struggles at school, wrestles with his Ojibwe identity, and copes with violence. But he also shows, with eloquence and compassion, his adult understanding of his mother's fight to live with dignity, not despair.
Subjects: Ethnic identity, Death, Family, Mothers, Ojibwa Indians, Mothers and sons, Ojibwa women, Dreams, Psychological aspects, Childhood and youth, Biography, Traumdeutung, Families, Indians of North America, Ethnizitat, Sterben, Authors, Ojibwa, Indianerin, Minnesota, biography, Indians of north america, ethnic identity
Places: Big Falls (Minn.), Minnesota, Big Falls
People: Mark Anthony Rolo, Corrine Winifred Bennett Rolo (1926-1973)