Unfortunately, many people suffer from the Hollywood distortions of Indian history. While the Chippewa never waged hostility toward the United States, the feeling appears to be that they should conduct themselves as a vanquished people. Should the Chippewa fail to act vanquished and join in the mainstream of American society, they are regarded as un-American renegades deserving the epithet of timber nigger.

Say I can't dress a window, you thundering old Humbug, he said, and hurled the huckaback at his master. He followed this up by pitching first a blanket, then an armful of silesia, then a window support out of the window into the shop.

Even Kenny Hodgman—Jack's last ally in eighth-grade pubelessness—seemed to have betrayed him.

We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.