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For Allison, Chaske, Edmond, Gemma, José, Lillieannah,

Malcolm, Mariah, and Martha

CONTENTS

Prologue

The Sevareid Library

José

Fort Snelling Specters

Old Hal and Hawk’s Canoe

We’re Off!

Brokeback Baptism

Paradise Lost

Red River Mud

The Eagle Speaks

Grand Forks

La Migra

Crossing the Border

Oh, Canada

Métis Dreams

The Tijuana Yacht Club

On to Nitaskinan

The Harbormaster

Lost and Found

Hell’s Gate

The Little Prince

Oxford Lake

The Ned Flanders Rebellion

The Suicide Route

Men of the North

Twilight of the Gods

The Cheat Codes for Life

From Knee Lake to Whitemud Falls

New Horizons

Acknowledgments

A NOTE ON THE USE OF LAKOTA, DAKOTA, AND SIOUX

José has both Lakota and Dakota ancestry on his mother’s side. The Lakota and Dakota are divisions of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate (Seven Fires Nation), or Sioux, the name given them by early French traders. The Dakota and Lakota people speak different dialects of the same language and share many cultural and spiritual traditions. Today the Dakota people’s homelands are located primarily in Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas, while the Lakota are settled primarily in western South Dakota. José uses Lakota, Dakota, and Sioux to describe his ethnicity, but does not use them interchangeably. He asserts one or the other branch of his Native heritage depending upon the topic and to whom he is speaking.