The Hiawatha plays near the Salmon River on

near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior

A critical response to what has been called the “whiteness of sound studies

also known as "the good berry

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

The Hiawatha plays near the Salmon River onAn 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.