Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke

A couple of things have reminded me of this book recently: one was looking up animal spirits because of something katerina posted on the lost theories site, and the other was shell's comment about the imposition of Christianity on native peoples.  The book tells the fictional history of several generations of Ojibwe people, beginning in the 19th century and ending in 2010.  I'll quote just a bit from the prologue to give you a sense of the style:

"There were two women once, a long time ago.  One was a Bwaanikwe, a Dakota woman, called Situpiwin, Tailfeathers Woman.  A woman from the west, she found refuge on White Earth.  Another woman took her in.  She was the one from White Earth, the Anishinaabekwe, the Ojibwe woman.  The White Earth woman took in Situpiwin because they were both widows.  One was a widow of the white man's war, another a widow of a man's war with himself..."