Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Metal and Tin storyteller

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Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan

When Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874

God was pleased and gave her a long

Her oldest brother began working in silver and taught his siblings the art

Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Metal and Tin storytellerDeborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparentscitizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribewere sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by