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and they've never met a real Indian

Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation

Deer grew up in poverty on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin

Interwoven in the stories are threads of Ojibwe culture and tradition

The Murder of Joe White: Ojibwe Leadership and Colonialism in Wisconsin cooking uprootingsIn 1894 Wisconsin game wardens Horace Martin and Josiah Hicks were dispatched to arrest Joe White, an Ojibwe "ogimaa "(chief), for hunting deer out of season and off reservation. Martin and Hicks found White and made an effort to arrest him. When White showed reluctance to go with the wardens, they started beating him; he attempted to flee, and the wardens shot him in the back, fatally wounding him. Both Martin and Hicks were charged with manslaughter