The Hiawatha plays and it was created as

and it was created as a collaborative effort with curator Karen Miller Nearburg

until greed and a desire to control the more-than-human world led to anger

A first of its kind

"American Apartheid brilliantly defines the broken system of justice for Native people in the United States

Will Dez be comfortable expressing her full identity

The Hiawatha plays and it was created asAn elegy to the American dream, and to the sometimes tragic experience of the Native Americans who helped to build it, The Hiawatha is both a moving portrait of a family, and a fast paced, page turning literary mystery of murder and redemption. Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young children from their Ojibwe roots to make a new life in Minneapolis.