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WHITE BIRCH, RED HAWTHORN
A MEMOIR |
| By: |
Nora Murphy |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£13.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1517901324 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781517901325 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
18 April, 2017 |
| Pages: |
152 |
| Description: |
A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland |
| Synopsis: |
This is conquered land.The Dakota womans words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great-great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn, a memoir of Murphys search for the deeper connections between this contested land and the communities who call it home. In twelve essays, each dedicated to a tree significant to Minnesota, Murphy tells the story of the grove that, long before the Irish arrived, was home to three Native tribes: the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Ho-Chunk. She notes devastating strategies employed by the U.S. government to wrest the land from the tribes, but also revisits iconic American tales that subtly continue to promote this displacement-the Thanksgiving story, the Paul Bunyan myth, and Laura Ingalls Wilders Little House books. Murphy travels to Ireland to search out another narrative long hidden-that of her great-great-grandmothers transformative journey from North Tipperary to The Maples. In retrieving these stories, White Birch, Red Hawthorn uncovers lingering wounds of the past-and the possibility that, through connection to this suffering, healing can follow. The next step is simple, Murphy tells us: listen. |
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US |
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University of Minnesota Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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